Posts Tagged ‘promotion’

10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog

A couple months ago, I wrote a newbie’s guide to blogging to help you get started with blogging. If you’ve been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to “pimp” your blog, both in the sense of “tricking out” your blog to make it more attractive and more useful… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, community, marketing, promotion | 30 comments»

How to Be a Good Neighbor In an Attention Economy

These days, everyone has too much on their minds. Gone are the days when woke up, went to the factory, put in your time, came home, and sat down with a selection from the three TV shows on that night. Gone, too, are the days when a long-distance call from grandma in Wisconsin was an event, something to look forward to and to put everything on hold for. Or… » Continue

March 3 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: attention, Communication, email, interruption, promotion | 11 comments»

Building Relationships: 11 Rules for Self-Promotion

It’s no secret: to get ahead, you have to promote yourself. But for most people, the thought of promoting themselves is slightly shady. Images of glad-handing insurance salesmen or arrogant know-it-alls run through our heads.

The reality is that we all rely on some degree of self-promotion. Whether you want to start your own business, sell your novel to a publisher, start a group for your favorite hobby, or… » Continue

February 8 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: business, freelancing, marketing, networking, promotion, relationship | 20 comments»

Why Self Promote?

When you’re not good at telling people how good you are it can be hard to get the recognition you want. People aren’t going to assume you’re the best at something; you’ll have to let them know.

And we’re not talking about bragging. If you’re a freelancer you may already be knowledgeable in the fine art of self promotion and bragging rights, but for many it’s new ground.

Self-promotion is giving… » Continue

June 27 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: promotion | 2 comments»

Using Technorati’s WTF to Promote your Blog

DoshDosh.com is trying an experiment to utilize Technorati’s ‘Where’s The Fire’ voting thingamajig to promote blogs. WTF is set up to provide informative blurbs of popular Technorati searches so to keep everyone in the loop, I guess.

What it really looks like is a Digg-style addon. Either way, it’s worth looking into to improve your site’s traffic.
Here’s all the really basic stuff about how to get started.
1. First, visit Technorati’s… » Continue

April 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, promotion, technorati | 1 comment»

Declutter your career

Just as you occasionally need to clean out a closet, you may also need to “clean out” your career to enable a focused and productive mindset, and to create expectations for advancement. The article goes into detail about how to handle distractions, conflicts, email overload, and distracting colleagues so you can accelerate your career.
Just as it can be helpful to clear out closets at home every so often… » Continue

February 8 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: career, development, organization, Productivity, promotion | no comments»

YOU want to be a manager?

If you are thinking of moving into a management position, you undoubtedly want to take a holistic look at your career. Erin Malone from Boxes and Arrows provides some excellent insight about the various things you need to consider before moving into management.
When I made the shift to manager, I had no idea how to make the transition nor did I have anyone to guide me through the… » Continue

January 25 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: career, Management, promotion, work | 1 comment»

The 20 tips that got me an IT promotion

Frank at Dumb Little Man blog has shared their 20 tips on how he got ahead and being promoted within his company. He raised couple of good points in there, but I feel there are couple of points that are irrelevant to his promotion:

- I will be the guy to speak out with new ideas in meetings. If it’s going to save money or increase revenues, I will never be… » Continue

August 2 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: promotion, tips | no comments»

Tag Yourself

Here’s a thought: what if you could tag yourself? What capabilities would you put out there for people to search on? Which do you think are most useful? How would tagging yourself change the way people saw your “value?” Do people in your organization know what you’re capable of, and if so, do they try to make use of it?

It’s tricky, because I venture that lots of us don’t exactly… » Continue

June 20 2006 | By Chris | Tagged: hack, Lifehack, marketing, promotion, selfpromotion, work-life | 2 comments»

Simplified Marketing Plans

Becky McRay over at Small Business Survival likes to keep things real. In her new post, Simplified Marketing Plans for the Real World, Becky tackles a realistic way for small business owners (and Company of One types like you reading Lifehack.org) to manage their marketing tasks:
Simplified Marketing Plan Outline