Helping You Rock Out Your Site Like A Rockstar!

If you have a blog, you are pitching. How often have you heard that (even at conferences)? It is a very true statement. When you put up a website, you are most likely not hording it all to your lonesome. You are telling people about it.

Some of you might not understand this and be saying – ‘I have a personal site, so how can I be selling.’

You are selling your words.

Every time you share that blog post out on Twitter, Facebook, and all the social network sites out there, you are basically advertising- ‘Here is my post. Please come read it.’

There is no shame in that, but make sure your pitch is a clear one. If it takes a long novel to describe what your site is about, people will not be interested. Keep your pitch simple and between 3 to 20 words. This pitch is something you can use at your site’s description so when Google picks up your site, that will include exactly what you want people to know about your site.

For example- I use: “Helping You Rock Out Your Site Like A Rockstar” for Blondish.net

You will know I help people with their websites and that I hope to make sure their websites turn out awesome.

Try your pitch here. Tell me it and how you came up with it? If you do not have a definite one, do you need help?

Meetup.com has been a great place for people that have common interests to get together. There are groups for hiking, social media, web design, business, and much more. While you always have Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to talk, sometimes a real face really helps. It also is a time to meet new people without having to hide behind the computer screen. Local meetups can boost your reputation because these are the people closest to where you live and can probably network with you if you have talents and services they might need. Now, let me emphasize that while Read More →

I like Twitter and have found some great uses for it, but let us face it, 140 characters can be limiting. Some of the trends I have been seeing, as well as participating in at Facebook has allowed me to connect with others, even people not originally in my social networking circle. So, I have kind of split this into two sections: groups and fan pages. Facebook Groups This is a newer feature that I see Facebook putting aside from applications and even fan pages. These are not necessarily forums, but they seem to be. Some of the groups I Read More →

#SharingSundays is back for 2011. I was not promoting much during the holidays due to the fact since I knew I was going to be busy with the festivities, a lot of you were probably busy too. The turnout for January 16, 2011 was awesome. I do want to remind everyone that was on the Event list reminder that the links should be shared on the Facebook fan page of Nile Flores, rather than the event reminder. There were a few this past #SharingSundays that put the link in the even, but that is okay. I have included all of Read More →

Trust and working with freelancers is a big thing online. I see a lot of it and sometimes I have to experience it with some first time clients. A lot of people take time to earn trust – some easier than others. It might be due to experiencing the bad side of human nature where lying and stealing might have been an issue. The thing is – when it comes to online, even though we might put our pictures, our voices, information about us or our families, and our hard work, the constant struggle of earning another person’s trust is Read More →

Guest blogging has its link building benefits, but sometimes choosing the right site is better than guest posting at just any place. It is obvious if you are going to guest blog, you are going to get something out of it- even owners of larger and more popular blogs are going to know this. Of course, it never hurts to write on smaller blogs. It just makes sense to make sure your guest post counts more since the authority and traffic is already established on larger websites. Pay attention to a site’s traffic and rank. Whether you can analyze it Read More →

I have been hearing about the word going around about the Swift Theme and if it was really that “swift”? There are a lot of themes that boast how fast they are or SEO ready. Please remember, WordPress already comes SEO ready out of the box. The plugins and tweaks done to themes add a little extra so you can customize how you want each post to be seen – giving you more control over your website. Well, I did a comparison of several themes for speed: Swift from SwiftThemes.com Genesis from StudioPress.com Lifestyles Theme from StudioPress.com (I have a Read More →

You know your niche, right? If not, finding topics for your site might be on the difficult side. However, it really comes down to one thing: your knowledge of the topics or that single topic. Some niche are wide and you can get away with writing a lot, but some are so narrow, it might make coming up with posts a little difficult. The solution: keep on top of your niche community by researching. If it is reading competitors’ websites, rubbing elbows with both newbies and experts, then do it. Participate in discussions, do interviews, do what it takes to Read More →