Is it OK to eat your pudding before your main course?
Eating your pudding before your main will fill you up and you won't have room for your dinner, you'll miss out on the nutritious part of your meal and it will go to waste. But wait, that's just stuff your mum worried about when you were a kid, right? Go ahead, eat your dessert first, who cares. If anything it will only stimulate your tastebuds and get your saliva flowing in preparation for your main. That's right, you heard it here first, dessert is the perfect appetiser, just the thing to whet the appetite before the satisfaction of the main course.
11 Life Changing Books
We asked our Twitter followers to recommend a book, something life-changing. This is what they came up with. The E-Myth Revisited, Michael GerberThanks to Steffi Lewis for this recommendation. The E in E-Myth stands for Entrepreneur and the book's message is that small businesses are often not run by entrepreneurs, but by people who like
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When it comes to must-read blogs you could choose ones focused on politics, or the environment, or industry. You could seek out fact-happy blogs about history, and get the latest statistics about science. Or you could read blogs about all of those things at Cracked.com.
What to write your next blog post about
Last week I was sitting in a sales meeting discussing the benefits of blogging to a potential new client. After a moment's silence he said, "my biggest challenge is finding something to write about." This can go both ways, people can either a) not have enough material, or b) have too much. Hopefully this post will help you find something to write about.
10 ways to find your next blog post title
Sometimes the hardest part of writing a blog post is coming up with a snappy title. Many writers find the rest easy. Thinking up the title is the starting point and once it's decided the blog post usual falls into place. Do you find it difficult coming up with blog post titles? Here's 10 places to look:
how do you measure the success of your blog posts?
Let's get straight to the point: what do you want your blog posts to do? I'll tell you what I want mine to do, win traffic and engage the reader. This puts the reader into my funnel as a potential new customer. I consider it the job of my blog and social media to fill the funnel from the top. Therefore, it's important to know if the process is working. How can I find out if my blog posts are delivering traffic and engaging my readers? Here's 9 tools I use:
What’s the Meaning of Life?
Photo courtesy of yourppl.comAsk anyone what the meaning of life is, and you'll be sure to get a different answer every time. Few questions are liable to raise such vastly different points of view. In fact, it's so subjective a topic, that it might seem impossible to ever answer definitively - unless, of course, you're Douglas Adams, in which case the answer is fairly obvious: '42'. Or if you're a
5 ways blogging can enhance your business
Does your business have a blog? If so, what do you blog about? And if not, why not? There are an absolute wealth of reasons to take up the noble art of blogging for your business. Don’t believe us? Let’s start from the beginning…
How easy is it to write a great blog posts?
In this post I'd like to show you how easy Alakazam is to use and why blog posts are so important in digital marketing. Whether you're an SEO, SMM, Affiliate Marketer, SME, B2B, Ecommerce, anyone with an online presence can benefit from having a business blog and use it to make money.
Is there a relationship between Affiliate Marketing and blogging
When it comes to Google, it's all about change. They changed the way we source information online; changed the way we consume content; and - on a regular basis - they change the results we find when searching.
When you perform a Google search for, say, cheap Ford KAs, you're presented with relevant, quality search results. That's the very least you'd expect - and if the search engine behemoth started throwing up results for cheap T-shirts or cheap iPhones or anything that wasn't what you were searching for, you'd go looking for a search engine that did what it was supposed to.
These changes, Google algorithms, are a regular thing, and unless you're immersed in SEO practices, you're unlikely to even be aware of the updates. But these changes, which are great for consumers, present an issue for affiliate marketers.
The Alakazam Guide to Social Media Marketing
With billions of users on social media (and many more joining every day), every business under the sun is seemingly forming a strategy to engage new audiences.Getting noticed online is a complicated process, and it requires that you not only ‘do social,’ but ‘be social’ - i.e. it’s important to
Interview: Chris from Spokal and Saul from Ritetag
I recently heard Seth Godin say, and I'm paraphrasing here, the reason there's so much mediocre content on the internet is that no-one wants to take responsibility for an original idea, the safer route being to repeat/regurgitate what everyone else is doing. It was this Ph Creative podcast I was listening