I’m very excited to host an upcoming workshop at PVCC. If you’re in Charlottesville and would like to learn hands-on how to drive traffic to your website, please register! How to Cost Effectively Drive Audiences to your Web Site Thursday, September 30, 9 a.m.- noon PVCC Stultz Center for Business and Career Development Instructor: Steinar [...]
2-Minute Pro Blogging WordPress Tip: Use Press This to Quickly Quote 3rd Party Content
Listen or Download Press This is a great WordPress tool that allows you to easily capture content from a third party website and quote that content in your blog post. This greatly increases your efficiency if you regularly quote content from other sites on your blog. Press This comes loaded with every WordPress installation and [...]
How to add a link to your Foursquare tips
Foursquare is a great social media platform that allows people to virtually “check-in” to physical locations using geo based capabilities on their smart phones. Over time, if you check-in enough you can become Mayor, which gives you little more than bragging rights, unless the owner of that venue has setup some sort of “offer” through [...]
Video: My first impressions of iPhone 4
I got the iPhone 4 this week. Here’s one of my first videos and some early impressions. After 5 days I still absolutely love it versus my old iPhone 3G. Some of the key features I like are: speed – the new processor is much faster than that used in the 3G, so apps load [...]
Two killer Facebook Page strategies to target specific users. This is good stuff!!!
Facebook Pages are a great way to engage your target market online and here are two great tactics to more specifically target individual users or groups within your niche. Listen or Download Mentions in Facebook Page Updates Mentioning others in your Facebook Page updates is a great way to gain significant exposure for your page. [...]
3 Great WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation
WordPress 3.o introduced some great new features including an advanced set of Menu options. Nonetheless, I always find the need for additional flexibility to customize what Posts and Pages are shown on my blog, when they’re shown and in what order. Here are 3 WordPress Plugins to Customize Your Blog’s Navigation: PageMash: This is one [...]
6 Ways to Improve Your Business Facebook Page
Facebook Pages are a great way to leverage the largest social media platform and connect with folks in your target market. Here are some tactics I’ve been using to improve my business Facebook Page and those of my clients. 1. Consistently post new content. If people have “liked your page they’ve basically given you permission to [...]
My fist QR Code – scan this into your phone
If you’re not familiar with QR codes, they are an increasingly popular method of sharing information similar to a bar code. Users with a smartphone can focus their camera on this code and the QR code software will save the information behind the code on their phone. In this case, it’s my URL, but it [...]
New Audio: Podcasting from my iPad again with AudioBoo
Podcasting on your blog and iTunes is a great way to reach your market and the iPad makes it easy. Check out the Related Posts below for more details on how this is done. Listen or Download
7 Tools to Increase Social Media Efficiency and Save A Ton of Time
Nearly everyone agrees that social media is a great way to reach and communicate with your market online. Weather it’s through Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, direct access to your target market has never been easier. The challenge, of course, is finding the time and resources to make the process efficient and effective. Following is my [...]