Free Images!! Ha…I see your eyes light up. You have written some great content, but we know that it is incomplete without an image. Images have the ability tell a story and they form an integral part of the many articles we write. The web is a treasure trove of some beautiful images, but not all of these images are available for FREE. Though the challenge lies in finding the right images at the right [...]

Pinterest has been gaining much importance lately.With nearly 50 million users and growing, you are looking at a great marketing platform and so you need an ‘Effective’ Pinterest Strategy. The beauty of Pinterest lies in its simple yet a very pleasing visual interface and so your Pinterest Strategy should involve a lot of visual element. Since Pinterest also supports videos, it’s a great way to showcase your video streaming prowess too! So this week was [...]

This is a Guest Post by Anny Solway One of the best ways to enhance a company’s reputation, develop traffic, and improve search engine performance is to be sure that their website is social media friendly. This is because websites like Facebook and Twitter have really exploded due to one simple fact: people prefer old-fashioned word of mouth more than anything else. Here’s what we mean: You can see an advertisement on TV for a [...]

Are you here because of the headline? Look at the images on the side. Newspapers headlines are the best way to learn the art of grabbing attention If you are here because of the headline of this article, I consider my job as half done, because it as caught you attention and that is what good headlines should do other than having great content. And in the other half, I am going to share few links [...]

I have always been asked about the social media tools that help me manage my activities online. With new tools coming up everyday, it’s not easy to know about all of them. But I stick to few basic tools to help me manage most of my activities on Twitter, Facebook, Google+ et al. Read: 5 Twitter Tools to Increase Productivity What I have learnt though is, not one tool will do everything you want. So, [...]

Time Management plays a key role in success of any blogger. Every minute, enormous amount of content is created but then there are few ideas which do not see the light as well, reason, the blogger had different priorities. I know you that these bloggers want to write, but for the lack of plan or priorities, the enthusiasm to write a post dies down very fast. So, if you’re someone who is not able to [...]

Facebook Contest is one important element of a Brand’s Marketing Strategy and when done right, it has the power to increase the brand’s visibility enormously. This week was dedicated to find some awesome Facebook Contest, but before that I was also seeking information on what are the right and wrong ways brands can go about doing the contest. Top 5 Posts on Facebook Contest 1. Did you know there are about 5 types of Facebook [...]

WhistleTalk – A Social Hiring Platform recently launched it’s enterprise solution that would help businesses to leverage social media for referrals. With plethora of job portals around who compete majorly around the number of subscriptions, I always wondered how can there by any disruptive solution to that madness. And came WhisteTalk, I reviewed their job-seeker version earlier and found it very interesting since they leveraged the power of social network of individuals to proliferate and [...]

Guest Blogging is indeed a great way to increase your audience. And if you’re looking at it from traffic generation and SEO perspective, the search engines do give more points for guest posting. But recently, there has been lot of noise around the growing importance of Guest Blogging and the various reasons you should not be doing it. With the Google Panda and Penguin updates and increasing use of AuthorRank, the noise has only increased. [...]

Social Engagement had been added to the list of key Marketing terms of today’s generation. Most of the experts today are of the opinion that Social Engagement should be an essential part of any brands Social Media strategy. But then on the other side of the rope, there are few experts who tend to disagree and have been telling brands not to get fixated on Social Engagement and focus on content and other strategies. Great [...]