Whether you’re a child or an adult, there are free mobile game apps that start out as fun diversions but quickly turn into full-fledged, impossible-to-break addictions. You might laugh at others who just can’t break their Angry Birds habit (included in the list below of course), but once you try it, you’ll find that you can’t stop trying to go just one more level. Many [...]
LinkedIn is the best social network for professionals to build relationships, find jobs, and recruit talent. For the vast majority of LinkedIn members, the free Basic LinkedIn account offers all of the features they need, but for some members, a paid account makes sense. Is a Premium LinkedIn account that comes with a monthly fee right for you? The answer depends on your reasons for [...]
Is it time to break up with your web host? It’s scary to end any relationship, and ending your relationship with your web host is not an exception. Not only is it a hassle to switch web hosts, but it’s also risky. If you don’t really know what you’re doing and don’t get the help you need, switching web hosts can negatively affect your [...]
Explainer videos are extremely popular these days, but they’re not cheap. A 60-second explainer video created by a provider that specializes in creating animated videos for companies, brands, and websites can cost you anywhere from several thousands of dollars to tens of thousands of dollars depending on the features, customizations, and provider you choose. An explainer video should be short, entertaining, and easy to understand. [...]
Your email newsletter design has a direct effect on the results that newsletter delivers. If you want people to open your email newsletter, read it, and click on the links, you need to have great content and great design. Fortunately, you don’t have to be a graphic designer to create a great newsletter thanks to the many free templates available online and through email marketing [...]
Email marketing is still one of the most effective ways to generate click-throughs to your website, leads, and sales. However, creating the content for your email marketing newsletters can be time consuming if you write it yourself or expensive if you pay someone to write it for you. Within the last couple of years, a number of free and affordable tools have launched that make [...]
How good are your social media marketing efforts? Whether you’re leveraging social media marketing to build your personal brand for career development or to build a business brand to increase sales and revenues, you need to take a step back and examine your social media marketing strategy and initiatives to ensure they’re truly delivering the results you need. In other words, you need to perform [...]
You’ve written an ebook and you’re proud of your work. You’re ready to release it to the world, but you don’t know where to start. How do you raise awareness of your ebook among your target audience, and how do you convince people to download it? If your ebook has a price tag, it’s even harder to motivate people to pay for it. Thanks to [...]
You might think of spring training as something only professional athletes go through as winter gives way to kinder days. Yet, many of us embark on a spring training program every year as the realization comes that in just a few months we’ll no longer have sweaters and jackets to hide our pale and possibly paunchy bodies. Along with this realization often comes another: “I [...]
White papers have been around for a very long time, but only a small number of white papers are actually successful at driving results for the companies that publish them. There is an art and a science to crafting compelling white papers that effectively deliver the company’s desired messages in a form that people actually want to read. Making things even more challenging is the [...]
