17 WordPress Plug-Ins To Help Improve Your Blog Experience

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One of the best features of using a self-hosted WordPress blog are the plug-ins that are available. Because WordPress is an open source community, anyone can develop themes and tools for it. Plug-ins are community-built applications that add extra features to any WordPress blog, from back-end resources to enhancing the reader experience. Lately I’ve been… [Continue Reading]

Six Steps to Running a Successful Blogger Outreach by Monica O’Brien

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But… but… blogger outreach doesn’t work anymore, right?

Actually, like most things in life, it depends on how you do it. The landscape for social media and blogging is constantly changing, and most bloggers with any sort of clout have received a mass email or press release that was completely off topic.

It doesn’t have to be that way though. Here’s the six step process I use for blogger outreach, that gives me astronomically higher success than most outreaches that PR firms will run for you. You can get great blogger outreach results (I’ll share mine at the end) in 3 months or less using these steps:

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 4: WordPress

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This is the fourth part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. So far we’ve looked at prepping the networks you’re going to be using for your hub, and what features you might want to… [Continue Reading]

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 3: Building Blocks

This is the third part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Last time we looked at decluttering your social networks, for the simple reason that having too many spreads you too thin. Being spread… [Continue Reading]

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 2: Decluttering

This is the second part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Yesterday we looked at why you need a social media hub, and why your blog is the ideal platform. There were some… [Continue Reading]

7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 1: Defining Your Hub

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This is the first part of a seven part mini-series looking at how and why to turn your blog into a social media hub. You’ll be able to find the complete series here. Social media. It’s all the rage. Pepsi is pinning its Super Bowl hopes on it. Ford’s social media strategy, led by Scott… [Continue Reading]

Next Week – 7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub

As the title of this post mentions, next week’s going to be a little different here. Instead of the normal posts, you’ll find 7 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub. The online world’s moving fast. Social media is on everyone’s lips, and questions about how it can impact you and/or your… [Continue Reading]

Ten for 10 in 2010 – Bloggers to Watch

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As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 – a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010. These are just personal takes and, as with any list, this is subjective so… [Continue Reading]

Ten for 10 in 2010 – Blog Marketing

As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 – a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010. These are just personal takes and, as with any list, this is subjective so… [Continue Reading]

Ten for 10 in 2010 – Favourite Blog Posts

As we approach the end of the year, I thought it might be fun to share Ten for 10 in 2010 – a list of people, blogs, apps, platforms and more that I think you might enjoy checking out in 2010. This time around, I look back at my ten personal favourite blog posts here… [Continue Reading]