Naturally, the inauguration of U.S. president Barak Obama was on the minds of many Blogging Boomers last week. In a time of cynicism and economic uncertainty, it is refreshing to see a political leader who has words of inspiration and hope. And even more refreshing to see him taking decisive action in his first week […]
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Yesterday while I was talking with head of SEO for Yahoo! Canada Darryl Peddle, he stressed how important links are to the search engine ranking of your site. The more links there are coming into your site, the higher you get ranked. But how do you get those incoming links? It’s actually not that hard.
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I was on LinkedIn this morning checking the LinkedIn Answers section. On person asked how to use Twitter, saying he didn’t get it. Several answers were from people who agreed that they didn’t quite know what to do with it. This made me laugh a little, because I don’t know if I could function without
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Rhea over at The Boomer Chronicles is one of the founders of the Blogging Boomers Carnival. This makes it very appropriate that Rhea is hosting the 100th edition of this blog carnival. If you check online listings of blog carnivals you’ll notice that many carnivals get started but peter out after a while. Few make
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Facebook is such an easy way to connect and keep in touch, it’s not surprising many people use it to keep in touch with their families. You can post photos, audios, maps to the family reunion – all with the click of a button. But what if you are trying to use Facebook to promote
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Since learning the ins and outs of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, I’ve become something of a social media evangelist. I love using social media, I’m getting amazing results and I’m not shy about telling everyone about it. And social media use is exploding. If you believe the hype, everyone is using it. I’ve learned however,
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This week’s edition of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is being hosted by The Midlife Crisis Queen, aka Laura Lee Carter. Laura Lee has seen a number of changes, dare I say dramatic changes, since turning 40. But she’s come out the other end and uses many of these life-altering changes as fodder for her blog.
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Building your list – increasing the number of people who subscribe to your offer – is one of the most important steps in building a business online. Once someone takes the step to signing up for your ezine, free report or teleseminar, they are so much closer to becoming a customer than someone who comes
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Because we are beginning a new year, it seems natural for many of us to set new goals for our business. We set goals to earn X dollars this year, or to increase our email list by Y percent. We do this because we know our goals need to be measurable so we know when
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You would never dream of attending a business meeting in a bathing suit or ripped jeans. And yet, many business professionals do the equivalent with their website and social media profiles. Even people with great profiles and intelligent comments sometimes drop the ball with their photograph. People like to network with people, not anonymous computers,
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