It is true… sometimes you get in a rut when debating on what you should write on your blog. The depressing thought-police come crashing through your door and stop any hint of creative musing… just because they can. How do you push yourself out of the mind block and towards creative thinking/writing?
When I personally find [...]
The other day, the wifi over here at BrandSwag was down for about an hour. Us web developers are pretty useless with out the internet, so I thought I’d make a video tutorial showing the steps one would take to schedule a post to publish at a later date on WordPress. Hope this helps!
Today I have a quick tip for those of you who may have a lot of followers on Twitter, and want to turn some of those followers in to readers of your blog. What we’re going to do is make it so that every time you publish a new post on WordPress, a link is [...]
Blogging fatigue. We all know what this means.
You start a blog and are high on life because this means… well… you have the potential of sharing your ideas to hundreds (if not thousands) of people on a daily basis. You start writing and get a couple of posts under your belt. You may have even [...]
We have all ready discussed why you should be blogging. Now I want to give you some tips how you can maintain this vital frequency.
#1 Schedule a Time and Date to Blog
This is the second more important tip. Take an hour or two out of one, maybe two, days a week to actually sit down [...]
Mark Evans has a great blog post called Is Anyone Paying Attention? Talk about some great everyday life visuals to relate to the transitioning of the web from cluttered to de-cluttered. All of that aside, Mark has a line in his post that was funny and hit me hard at the same time.
The lack of [...]
You just spent thousands of dollars on your shiny new website which is equipped with a search engine optimized blog… Why aren’t you blogging?
The blog is the life-blood of your website. Don’t get me wrong, content and design are crucial, but mean nothing if you have no visitors. When search engines crawl(analyze) your website for [...]
This is the first in a series of posts that will detail the importance of maintaining a web presence for your business. The series will be written by yours truly and will be augmented every Tuesday, until completed.
Communication
Communication is the most vital aspect of maintaining a web presence. The reason communication is so beneficial is [...]
For the first 6 months after I started using social media tools religiously, I have to admit that I wasted a lot of time. The reason is that I didn’t have clear expectations of how I would benefit. I started using linkedIn because a lot of people told me it would benefit my bottom line [...]
On behalf of the Brandswag crew I’m proud to announce that our own Kyle Lacy has been declared the top Generation Y marketing blogger by Viralogy.com. The rankings included a number of metrics including linkbacks, average comments per post, site traffic, Technorati authority, Twitter followers, follower/following ratio, and Retweets/month.
Among the runners-up were Shama Hyder of [...]
