Is blogging a new adventure for you? Save your sanity with these three tips for newbie bloggers from author, Doug Brown.
Doug attended “Take your blogging and social media marketing to the next level,” a course Laura Christianson taught recently.
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Want to improve your chances of getting noticed on social media? Try these seven simple, yet often overlooked, techniques for increasing the success of your promotional activities on Facebook or Twitter.
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Is your website mobile-friendly? This article explains Google’s new mobile-friendly update, and how it will affect your site.
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I tested four ambient noise websites in search of a combination of sounds that simultaneously relax, inspire, and increase concentration. This article reviews my findings and suggests some excellent sound combos, as well as a few to avoid.
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We’re excited to announce that we launched a remodeled version of BloggingBistro.com. Along with that, we’ve transferred our blog’s RSS feed to AWeber. Read on for details about how to subscribe via e-mail or your favorite feed reader.
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Landing pages — stand-alone web pages that deliver a single marketing message and a single call-to-action — have been around for decades. They’re usually used to entice people to sign up for an offer or mailing list.
During the past year or so, one-page websites have exploded in popularity. Now, instead of functioning primarily as a sales tool, they’ve morphed into full-featured websites.
One-page websites work well for brands in their infancy and for sites that have a small amount of content.
This article shows you one-page websites we have developed for clients, and details two common problems with one-page WordPress themes.
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If you’ve been collecting names and emails for your e-newsletter and are now ready to begin using them, it’s a good idea to verify that the emails are valid before you import them to your e-newsletter list.
Why?
Because most email marketing services (such as MailChimp, AWeber, and Constant Contact) base their monthly fees on the total number of subscribers.
This article explains how BriteVerify works and includes examples of how two Blogging Bistro clients used the service to axe the deadwood from their email lists.
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The right person at the right time can transform your business. Influence can be as simple as a friendly journalist who writes an article about your company.
In this tutorial by guest columnist, Bruce Harpham, you’ll learn a simple technique to quickly identify influential people in your field.
How to Target Influential People
Author Sherri Sand regularly includes scripture references in her devotional blog posts. She asked me whether there is a WordPress plugin that will automatically search her posts for scripture references and display the text of the Bible verses in a pop-up box.
Sure enough, there is! It’s called ESV CrossRef (or just CrossRef, once it’s installed on your site).
Read on to learn how it works and how it looks.
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Have you ever received an email with a super-long link in it—a link so long it was unclickable? I certainly have.
Enter the amazing URL shrinker, a handy tool that shortens lengthy URLs (web addresses) to 25 or so characters.
In this article, we look at the pros and cons of URL shorteners, and review five excellent services: