3 Awesome Free Graphics Tools for Entrepreneurs

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Looking for a simple, free way to create graphics for your website, blog and sales pages? Check out these three web-based tools. You can access each one online in your browser so you don’t need to download any files or fight through the learning curve most graphics software comes with. Cool Text Buttons & Headlines [...]

What Do Jack Bauer, ProBlogger, and Blog Tyrant Have in Common?

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Give up? They can all help you become a better blogpreneur (is that a word?) and they’re all on my cool links list for today. Ran across an awesome post from Rod Kirby’s Success Center with 24 Reasons Jack Bauer is a Better Entrepreneur Than Me. And this link from BlogTyrant.com was one of the [...]

Don't Roll the Dice With Your Important Data

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Is your website safely backed up in case of a server crash or hacker attack? How about your Twitter account?  Facebook?  Home computer? Can you imagine what would happen to your business if you lost any of that data?  Eek! Here’s a round up of cool tools I use to keep my data safe.  I’m [...]

Be 007 on Twitter

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Twitter.  James Twitter. With a license to tweet. What does James Bond have going for him other than stylish good looks, keen intellect, and a license to kill?  Super cool tools and gadgets! Be a 007 on Twitter with this list of tools and gadgets to help you find connections, manage your friends and followers, [...]

How to See What Your Visitors Search For

The action I took today to better my blog was behind the scenes, based on my post from earlier this morning about monitoring searches so we can better deliver what our visitors want. I’ve installed the Search Meter plugin that will show me what’s being searched for, what the results are, and what searches don’t [...]

Better Blog #6: Going Mobile

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Action step for today — get a working mobile friendly theme back onto my blog. With the plugins available for WordPress this is just a matter of choosing one and installing it. I’m going with WPTouch and made a video of the process so you can see the steps I followed to install and setup [...]

How to Find & Add Images to Your Blog

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Photo by ba1969 Do you ever wonder where bloggers are finding the images they include in their posts? The answer is… well, lots of places! Some things to know if you want to include images in your blog posts: 1. Don’t just do a Google image search and grab an image.  You want to be [...]

Better Blog Action #1: Wibiya

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The action step I took this weekend to improve my blog was to get rid of some of the share button clutter and give readers more options by installing the Wibiya toolbar. It’s the pink toolbar sitting down there at the bottom of your screen on any page of my website.  See it?  From that [...]

Top 10 Tools I Use for Twitter

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Yesterday I shared some tools for Facebook.  So you knew I couldn’t resist sharing my favorite Twitter tools today… I’ve created a toolkit at oneforty.com with 10 of the tools I use most frequently to monitor my brand, engage with my clients, and share my business using Twitter. Check it out: http://oneforty.com/MichelleShaeffr/twitter-small-business-tools

Who's Liking You on Facebook?

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Got two cool websites to share with you today to help you track mentions of your website/business/brand/etc. on Facebook. Of course, you’ve already got your fan page setup (right?) and a fan box on your website (no? click here for directions).  So you already know who “likes” you there. LikeButton.me But what about people who’ve [...]