Blogging Tips from around the Web

Here are several informative articles that relate to blogging this week. All offer insight on blogging and social media and many have some great blogging tips. I encourage you to take a moment and read the articles. If you have any you would like to include please feel free to leave them in the comments. [...]

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Slumber Party Winners

This past weekend we had a heckuva fun time at the Saturday Night Slumber Party. We had several new faces and gave away some great prizes. We gave away three bars of soap from Happy Goats Soap and a Go-Girl from Go-Girl.com. Congratulations to Kathy from The Junk Drawer, Boom Boom from How To Become [...]

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What are alt tags and why should I use them?

An alt tag is simply alternate text used to describe an image. All of the search engines out there use text to document and rank pages. As all-knowing as Google is, the bots cannot yet view a photo and then translate it into words. Someone needs to work on that. In the meantime, it’s helpful [...]

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Announcing the Tribal Blogs Book Club

We’re hosting a monthly Book Club here at Tribal Blogs! We’ll be reading one book per month and we’ll meet weekly on Thursday nights to discuss what we’ve read. Our first book is Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott. Next week on Thursday, April 7 at 8:30 p.m. EST [...]

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Blogging Blueprint Part 3

What kind of content will your blog have? Creating content for your blog is just as important as the design of your website. Even if the aesthetics are in place and the navigation tools are top notch your reader will not return if the content is updated sporadically. Before your blog launches you need to [...]

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Blogging Blueprint Part 2

What will the focus of your blog be? Will you document the progress of building projects with before and after photos, will you answer questions about products, will you give a history of your company, will you offer advice on home improvement projects? Will you post videos answering customer concerns? Will consumers have a way [...]

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Blogging Blueprint Part 1

List the top three goals for your blog in order of importance. What do you want to get out of your blog — more customers, brand recognition, a way to offer coupons and special pricing, a way to create a marketing email list? Will you create a page of testimonials? Will you create an email [...]

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Do You Really Need a Blog?

The short answer is a resounding yes. No matter what business you have if you are selling something or wish to market yourself, you need a blog. Yesterday Kelly Bristow and I presented a webinar on blogging and ghostwriting to a group of home builders and remodelers, during the presentation attendees were shown a couple [...]

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7 Things I Learned about Blogging From Elizabeth Taylor

Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor has died today from congestive heart failure, she was 79. Elizabeth Taylor was a class act, I have been a fan of hers since I first saw her in Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf? I was mesmerized by her performance and in the days before VCRs, TIVO and cable (at [...]

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