Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably already know that social media has exploded over the last couple of years. The rate of growth seems exponential, and the user demographics for social media has expanded from internet geeks and bored students to just about every type of user you can think of. In [...]
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Two Quick Visual Branding Tools You Should Already Be Using
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Marketing
Branding is one of the most important aspects of creating a successful product. Brand identity often revolves around simple visual cues. There are several types of visual cues that can be used for branding. One simple way to brand is color. When you UPS did a major campaign a while back “what can brown do [...]
Read More Blog Design, Branding, Community, MarketingWhat Does Alexa Ranking Really Tell You?
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Favs, Utilities
Today is my first day ranked as an Alexa top 100,000 site. When I started blogging, I didn’t really know much about what all the rankings meant, but I knew that I wanted to get my Alexa Rank in the top 100,000 because that was their cutoff for caring about your site. I have read [...]
Read More Alexa, Blog, TrafficTwitter Testing ReTweet Button (With RT Tracking)
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Twitter
Over the last couple of months, Twitter has been taking major steps to become more user friendly. The first major step was adding Twitter Lists. They are an extremely helpful way to organize people you want to follow. This is especially useful if you’re following thousands of people. Twitter is now doing Beta testing for [...]
Read More TwitterOptimize Anchored Keyword Links To Improve your SEO
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Marketing
Links have always been one of the most critical aspects of the internet. Being able to link multiple related pages together provides a tremendous value to readers. Back in the pre-Web 2.0 days, a lot of links were written with “click here” as the anchor text (and a lot of people still link like this). [...]
Read More Blog, Community, Marketing, SEO7 Steps To Building A Following And Following The Right People On Twitter
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Favs, Twitter
Tweeter has been the center of a ton of attention the last year. It’s explosive growth and strength as a real time organic search engine, instant breaking news resource, and marketing tool provide people using it an amazing advantage over those who don’t. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about 5 Twitter Newbie Mistakes [...]
Read More Branding, lists, Online Marketing, TwitterNew Newsletter, New House, And One Year Of Marriage
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Entertainment
A lot has been going on this week here in Props Blog land. Today is my first anniversary with my beautiful wife Leah! We also signed disclosure papers on a house and expect to finish closing by the end of the month. Last but not least, we’re expecting in June! (Talk about being busy) You’ll [...]
Read More Awebber, Blog, Marketing, NewsletterRestaurants Are More Like Blogs Than You Think
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Favs, Marketing
The other day, I was at Houlihan’s eating dinner with my wife and my dad. We stayed there for several hours chatting, and I started think about how a restaurant is a lot like a blog. First Impressions Can Make Or Break You When we walked through the door to look at the menu and [...]
Read More Blog, CommunityAre You Really Trying To Be Successful (or Are You A Schmuck)
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Entertainment
It is rant time here at Props Blog. A lot of people think that being successful and “trying” just means showing up. Part of being successful is just showing up, but that’s only a tiny percent of it. If you don’t show up to play, why bother? Sending A Lousy E-mail Is Not Trying After [...]
Read More Blog, SuccessLet Click Booth Make You An Affiliate Rockstar
Posted by Blake Waddill - - Marketing
Earlier this week I signed up to be a Click Booth Affiliate. Since affiliate marketing is all the rage right now, I thought I would have a look and see what everyone is talking about. I previously signed up for Click Bank and found the site to be annoying to navigate. A few of the [...]
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