Metrics to Measure Your Business Website

Every business today should have a website. Whether you run a restaurant, retail store, or service business, you should have a modern, functioning website. Here are some metrics to track to help you know if your website is making it to customer eyes and if it is meeting customer needs.   Unique Visitors Unique visitor […]

How to Run A Blogger Link-Up

More and more, I see my fellow bloggers running link-ups, or posts on a predetermined topic that encourage their fellow bloggers to write posts on similar topics and post a link to it on the original blog. For me, it’s been a great way to engage in the blogging community as well as find out blog […]

7 IFTTT Recipes for Small Business Owners

IFTTT is a fun, free tool that can automate repetitive tasks with an easy to use interface. IFTTT stands for “If this, then that.” It only takes a few minutes to automate different parts of your business.  If you’re a small business owner that does a lot of business online (or wants to), look to […]

How to Use Instagram for Your Business Blog

In my post about using Instagram Video and Vine for Writers and Bloggers, I mentioned how difficult it can be to successfully use Instagram for promotion for your website or blog. The main reason being that you cannot use a clickable link in your Instagram post to directly link people to the blog post it corresponds […]

Becoming an Entrepreneurial Writer: Dealing With Writers’ Block

We’ve all been here before. You should update your blog with a new post. That freelance article is past due. But you still don’t have a clue about what to write about (or in some cases, you just feel like writing). Those moments have partially inspired this post, and I’d like to share some of […]