My Productivity Challenge! Every day, I face a productivity challenge – I have more to do than I can do in the number of hours that I am willing to devote to work. I have tried numerous strategies to solve this problem and many, many tools. I finally have settled on a productivity solution that [...]
As a social media marketer and online brand positioning strategist, I have had extensive experience building online brands and social media campaigns for companies. These companies range from solo entrepreneurs to small local businesses to national corporations to international entities. Over the course of my experience, I have found that my favorite group to work [...]
You may be asking yourself, what the heck are these wacky words? XeeMe? XWeek? Twylah? Are these even real words? Yup, these are real words! Two of these words are the names of two social media tools and the other word is the name of a social media event. If you are involved in social [...]
TWYLAH IS MORE THAN JUST A PRETTY TWITTER Twylah is a true social media tool ripe with SEO and social media awesomeness. And, they just added some truly awesome features that make it even more awesome. Awesomer, if you will. And the bonus part: Twylah is EASY. Like hands off, do nothing easy. Maybe your experience [...]
My very good friend (and I don’t mean that lightly), Michael Q. Todd has challenged me to write a blog post about my social media experience and how I am doing in “The 7 Pillars of Social Media“. If you are a fan of his already, then you are familiar with this concept. If not, [...]
Do you see those “Pingdom Before” speed results? 8.27 seconds load time! When I saw that,“Speed Up WordPress” jumped to the TOP of my to do list for this blog. 8.27 seconds. That’s ridiculous. It took a few different experiments to speed up wordpress, and after much tweaking and un-tweaking, I was able to make my [...]
Social Media Experiment Update 5 – aka – “What is the social media experiment update after negligible social media interaction for several months?” As you may have read in my last post, my personal life took an abrupt change in course on December 16th when my son begged me to homeschool him. In order to add in [...]
Social Media Experiment Update 5-1: first the explaining, then the monkey resuscitating. On December 16, my son came to me with a list of reasons justifying why he strongly felt the need to be pulled out of public school. He begged me to please homeschool him. I was not the least bit interested in adding [...]
Time to update the social media experiment report! This blog is 30 48 days old. It has 8 9 posts currently. There are 143 218 comments on the blog, 38 67 of which are my responses to comments. 105 151 comments are from blog visitors. I have had 845 1427 unique visitors and 327 536 returning visitors in [...]
For the first month and a-half that I have conducted this social media experiment, I’ve focused solely on laying the foundation to promote a blog solely through social media. If you were to check the dates of my blog posts, you would clearly see I haven’t adhered to the standard blog launch advice of “publish fast [...]