Wild Social Media

When I first started blogging to build an audience for my book, I read Yaro Starak’s blog. He said that the way he got tons of website visitors and built up his traffic was by commenting on 10 blogs per night. So in 2010, that is what I did. I got tons of traffic and tons of sales when my book came out. Over the years that I’ve been doing this, I’ve come to realize that commenting is an art. You don’t want to make a spam comment. You want to make something useful, something that helps people Read more [...]

If you know you should work harder on your social media marketing, or maybe you’re just starting out in a new social media management position, this workbook is for you. It teaches you step by step how to find your target market, how to use keywords to get found in google, how to write compelling articles, how to get more traffic through commenting, how to dominate Twitter and LinkedIn in 30 days, and how to measure everything you’re doing. It also has worksheets to help you stay more private Read more [...]

If you’ve wanted a website for awhile, if you’re stuck because you don’t know anyone who can help you get a website together, this excerpt from my new book tells you how to start your website, how to get exponentially more traffic to it, and how to get your twitter and LinkedIn accounts driving traffic to your website. It also teaches you how to set up your e-newsletter list, and start to build your momentum to getting lots more money for your business and traffic for your website. Here’s Read more [...]

I joined LinkedIn on January 27, 2007. In the last five years, LinkedIn has changed a lot. I’ve used LinkedIn both as a job seeker and a business owner. It has gotten a lot more interesting in the last couple of years, as LinkedIn integrated and then rejected Twitter, as they created ever more sophisticated profiles and pages for businesses, and as people have gotten more active in the groups feature. Indeed, according to a recent LinkedIn poll, groups are people’s favorite parts of LinkedIn. Read more [...]

Take it from someone who has blogged since 1999, blogging is HARD! It’s a lot of work and you have to do it every week. In November 2009 I started to blog for business, to market my book, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising. I wanted to build a platform to sell my book on, but it’s turned into a business, a place where people find community, and it has made me friends all over the world. From February 2010 to December 2010 I blogged Five. Days. A. Week. I got TONS more traffic but it Read more [...]

If you want to learn how to succeed in marketing your business or nonprofit online, starting from zero, this is the book for you. With hands-on, how to worksheets helping you get your web presence from zero to 60, you’ll learn in a couple of hours what it took me YEARS to learn! I started out in late 2009 with no connections, no web presence, no job, no money, nothing. No one had any reason to care about my opinion. I started to write my first book, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising, and Read more [...]

What is content marketing? How can you use it to sell products and services? Come out and meet us on November 14th at 5:30pm at APACC’s headquarters, 520 SW Yamhill St. (Second Floor) 97204 in Portland, Oregon! Click here to register. Do you want to learn how to turn your website into not just your brand hub, but a place customers want to come back to, again and again? It’s called content marketing. This advanced content marketing workshop will answer these questions and more: What Read more [...]

Would you like to learn how to get more attention for your business? How about how to get more Twitter followers, FAST? The Wild Woman’s Guide to Social Media will teach you how to market yourself or your business online. Two years in the making, this 220+ page book goes into detail on how to get tons more attention for your business or cause. It’s about how to arrange your website for maximum engagement with your customers. It’s about how to create the best newsletter. It’s about Twitter. Read more [...]

Recently I read an Agitator article about the 9 downsides to social media.They reprinted Eric Sass’s ideas, such as; Erik’s 9 reasons to quit now (each is nicely elaborated in his article on a social media blog) … It’s a waste of time. It’s addictive and unhealthy. Did you know there’s a Facebook Addiction Scale? Take the test*. It encourages envy/narcissism. It takes you away from the real world. It encourages superficial relationships. Privacy concerns/unethical business Read more [...]