Tag: blogging

The most successful entrepreneurs are those who believe business should be dynamic. Here are 5 tips on how to boost your business to new levels.

Gone are the days when blogging was just a hobby. Today, when done well, it is a really viable business opportunity to rake in...

Why did we start a blog long before we launched our startup? Well, it certainly wasn’t because we needed something to do until our...

What does Google love? Frequent content. Recent content. Quality content.

Pete Williams has created a series of techniques to make content creation easy, repeatable and also highly monetisable. Learn how Pete is able to transform one item of compelling content into 30... including videos, podcasts, educational courses and much more.

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Most people already understand that blogging can be used to demonstrate expertise and build rapport, which together create trust.

But that's just the beginning. Did you know that search engines favour bloggers? And did you know that social media enhances the impact of sites with blogs. This means traffic. (Trust + Traffic = Sales.)

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To be social means to be engaging, so what you need to do is actively create and maintain better connections with your customers, prospects, suppliers and employees. For example, your website states who you are and what you do, but on the hand a blog reveals your character as an organisation, what you think and believe in.

If you're looking to be more awesome in 2013, then take some well rounded advice from Neil Pasricha, owner of the 1000 Awesome Things blog. There really are three simple steps to living a life that is awesome.

Few things warm business owners' hearts more than positive customer feedback. If we’re truthful, it’s why we got into business in the first place.

At some point, many small businesses feel stuck – stuck behind a larger competitor with resources that far outstrips their own. All is not lost though because, according to Fiona Mackenzie, these businesses are prime candidates to turn to the Internet which offers a level playing field and where a small one-man band can be bigger than Goliath. Start with thinking small, she tells Anthill.

We recently got slammed. Last week, I was cc’d on seven emails in the space of a minute. They were all from Wordpress, each one a comment from the mag nation blog waiting for approval. On further examination, the author of all seven comments was the same person, and they had posted the exact same comment on seven different blog posts.

Are you a misanthrope? Do you enjoy causing arguments for the sake of it? Do you insist on playing devil's advocate in every single situation, no matter how inappropriate? Then you might just have a career ahead of you as a blogger.

With no employees or office space, Yaro Starak makes half a million dollars a year sitting in a café typing on his laptop. He represents a new breed of digital entrepreneurs, one of just a handful of people who make good money from professional blogging.

Blogging has moved well beyond the ridicule it once received as the platform for narcissists and propeller heads. But there are still a small few who find the prospect of sharing their whims and wisdom on a regular basis with strangers a tad daunting. That's why I was pleased to discover the following post by satirist, corporate comedian and hoax speaker Graeme Bowman pinged into my Twitter feed.

I’m in the middle of raising another round of capital and it occurs to me that one of the costs of professional investment, especially with VCs or Private Equity firms, is complexity. Not many people talk about this.

To succeed in social media, you need to stop worrying and learn to love chaos, writes Annie Robinson.

I was reading 'designing for the social web' by Joshua Porter for my UXbookclub Sydney meeting a couple of months ago. It opens with a quote...

Brand leadership through social media Not so long ago, the relationship that brands had with their customers was a one-way street. The brand was the...

Are you an active or aspiring blogger, with exciting, inspiring, erudite, informative things to say, yet feel frustrated at how hard it has become...

Last week we launched the Anthill Editors' Blog (I assume you know this because you are now reading it). Our motivations are fairly obvious. This...

It was an outrage. In March, celebrity US blogger Arrianna Huffington caused a squall of controversy when she cobbled together quotes criticising the Iraq war from various articles and interviews with George Clooney, gained approval from Clooney's publicist and ran the post on thehuffingtonpost.com under Clooney's name, with a few of her own words tossed in for good measure. It was perceived as an assault on the central tenets of journalistic professionalism and drew fire from many quarters (leading to her qualified apology when the great man arced up). But The Huffington Post is a blog, not a newspaper of record, and Ms Huffington had as many defenders as accusers during the affair.