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Hashtag Marketing: These Are the 245 Hashtags You Need to Be Great

October 21, 2018 by Janice Wald 7 Comments

Do you speak hashtag?

In the play “We Will Rock You,” hashtags were heavily criticized.

Yet, hashtag marketing is an effective strategy to adopt if you want to be a successful social media marketer.

This post offers advantages of using hashtags as well as hashtags to help you get your content found at Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

Now that Google+ is folding, you need social media sites like Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn more than ever before.

Social media sites have great power.

They have the power to bring your blog exposure, visitors, and possibly new followers and customers.

In other words, social media translates into growth.

However, if you’re going to use social media for blog promotion, you have to speak in social media jargon.

Social media jargon is called “hashtag.”

Do you speak hashtag?

After this post, you will.

In this article you’ll discover these answers:

What are the advantages of using hashtags?
Which popular hashtags exist for all niches?
Are there free hashtag tools?
Which hashtag strategies are the most effective?

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Inspire Me Monday Linky Party #199

October 15, 2018 by Janice Wald 13 Comments

Welcome to the Inspire Me Monday Linky Party for October 15. We are glad you joined us!

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How to Easily Start a Profitable Blog: 10 Smart Ways

October 15, 2018 by Janice Wald 6 Comments

10 Ways To Make Money From Blogging

This post was contributed.

Every person has a passion in life. You might be an artisan chef, a master wordsmith, or a well-traveled globetrotter. Whatever the most important thing in your life is, there’s no better way to extol its virtues to the public than by starting a blog.

Plenty of writers blog simply for the pleasure of doing so; some people don’t see their creative endeavors as money-making opportunities. If you do want to make some money from your blog, though, there’s a surprising number of ways to go about this.

Do bloggers make money? Absolutely!

Here are 10 ways you can blog about what you love and make money in the process.

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Google+ Closes: 13 More Social Media Sites to Make You Happy

October 14, 2018 by Janice Wald 28 Comments

When I first started blogging almost 4 years ago, I enjoyed using GooglePlus.

I enjoyed the feeling of community the GooglePlus groups gave me.

I met new friends from all walks of life tied by a common thread– a love of blogging.

I promoted my posts on GooglePlus which has the potential to boost blog traffic.

My friends often promoted my posts and expert interviews in which I took part there. Their support further cemented our friendships.

Additionally, I was able to promote in GooglePlus groups which had the potential to attract targeted traffic. GooglePlus had all sorts of groups. I recall groups about technology, politics, and WordPress just to name three.

I say “recall” since I hadn’t been to GooglePlus in an extremely long time.

Apparently, neither had many people since the site announced its impending closure on October 8.

GooglePlus announced the site will close its doors come August of 2019.

Another reason actually precipitated the site’s imminent closure: a data breach involving 500,000 people.

Reactions on Twitter to the news of GooglePlus folding varied:

Google has apparently announced they are shutting down #GooglePlus leading thousands to ask the important question “Google+ was still around?”

And the main lesson for those end-users, like me, who invested thousands of hours helping to build services like Google+ and Google Reader? Never invest deeply in a platform that isn’t the primary focus of the company behind it.

So GooglePlus is dead now? #RIP #GooglePlus

The news that Google is shutting down #GooglePlus is met with immense joy and sighs of relief from Social Media Professionals all across the industry who were only publishing on or monitoring the dead platform because it was a checkbox on an executive’s social strategy.

#GooglePlus ? More like #GoogleMinus

The #GooglePlus data breach is not really a huge deal. No one uses the platform.

Google Is Shutting Down Google+ After Exposing Data Of Up To 500,000 Users. SHOCKING. Never Knew Google Plus Had 500,000 Users. #GooglePlus

At the end of this article, you will be able to promote your posts to 13 free social media sites and social bookmarking sites.

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Blog Party: Happy Indigenous Peoples Day

October 13, 2018 by Janice Wald 12 Comments

Welcome to Our Indigenous Peoples Day Blog Party

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Effective Leadership: How to Be a Strong Leader 100%, 11 Ways

October 12, 2018 by Janice Wald 9 Comments

Effective leadership comes in many forms.

Do you have a team that helps you run your small business blog?

Whether it be a virtual assistant or other tech people who help you, bloggers certainly need effective leadership skills to keep things running smoothly.

Even in your blogging community, you need leadership skills. Bloggers should be thought leaders in their niche.

Why Effective Leadership Matters in the Workplace

& What it Looks Like

This post was contributed.

The issue of effective leadership is one that can’t be ignored in an online or offline setting. If you want to get the most out of your team and inspire them each day, having a leader, or being that leader yourself, is essential. Whether it’s the owner of an online business or a high-level manager, you need to look for a way to ensure that your business isn’t muddled and chaotic without the proper direction that a talented leader offers.

It’s not just about motivating people either. There are so many other things that a good leader does and it’s not always what you expect. A lot of the people who think they’re good leaders in fact just do a lot of shouting and grandstanding, but that’s not what good leadership looks like in the 21st century. There are so much more to it and so many benefits that come with getting it right.

We’re now going to look at some of the things that make leadership so important and then what effective leadership actually looks like these days. So read on now to find out how you can be a good leader.

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How to Grow Big with These 17 New Digital Marketing Trends

October 11, 2018 by Janice Wald 7 Comments

Digital marketing trends.

By definition, trends change.

Four months passed since the publication of my popular post How to Use The 12 Top Digital Marketing Trends to Make More Money.

Now that 2018 is nearing a close, are the digital marketing trends reported in that post the same or have they changed?

By the end of this post, you’ll discover the current digital marketing trends, the connection between digital marketing and SEO, and you’ll have a powerful action plan for growing your blog or business online.

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