Hard Cost of Website Outages

If as a information publisher, web hosting services provider, or technical services company you may think outages are no big deal, then you'll want to read every word of todays post. I don't mean to be dramatic over this, but outages are some serious as serious as a heart attack ...

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Burning time with Twitter?

Are you burning valuable time with social media? Clients lately are asking about automating Tweets because they find so much of each day sucked into social media. Technology changes, but time challenges are still the same.

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Using social media automation

"I'm reading about Twitter automation tools that save me time with social media. What are your thoughts about social media automation?" -- John

If you're asking about the kind of social media automation that saves selling professionals time, then I'm for it. But if you're talking about social media automation that broadcasts garbage, then I'm against it. Here's why.

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Blog Posts from Public Content

There is nothing wrong with using public content on your business blog, but you've got to think about your visitor. It's a great niche content strategy, unfortunately so many do this wrong. Here are some tips to leverage public content for business gain.

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Humanistic article linking strategy

Many marketers today want links to their affiliate and lead generation pages, they want links so bad they will find any reason to shove in their web address. Unfortunately, many bad links hurts value for readers. Here's a lesson that will improve article marketing and your sales bottom line.

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