It’s expected these days to have one or more social media accounts. People will ask to add you on Facebook or connect on LinkedIn as easily as they’ll ask for your phone number. It’s simple for most people to find you online, too, since your profiles are only a search of your name away. For this reason, it’s essential to use basic social media safety strategies to keep your identity, information, and self safe. [Read more…]
Blog Stalkers: Staying Safe Online
Amassing readers and followers is great – but sometimes the admiration tiptoes over the line from positive to crazy. What starts as a one-sided relationship or professional interaction can turn serious and bring you legal trouble or even physical harm. Being aware of how other bloggers have been stalked and harassed might help you recognize the danger signs as you write your own blog and manage social media accounts. [Read more…]
Getting Known – How To Make Your Blog Into A Brand
These days, it seems like everyone has a blog. In fact, when you take into account the fact that most students are taught to design one before they finish middle school, it’s safe to say that, indeed, everyone really does have a blog. But when you blog professionally, the key to success is moving your site from being “just a blog” to a full-blown brand. That means becoming recognizable in terms of voice, visuals, and products that keep your readers coming back. [Read more…]
5 Reasons to Add an E-Commerce Section to Your Blog
Blogs on their own are a great way to curate a customer base and get people interested in your company. However, once you capture their attention, are you fully monetizing it? If you don’t have an e-commerce section on your site, then the answer is no. You can find plenty of reasons to integrate an e-commerce platform with your blog, such as the five below. [Read more…]
Most Common SEO Mistakes Bloggers Make
As a blogger, SEO can be a very foreign and difficult concept to master. It is for this reason you may decide to ignore SEO altogether. And this is the biggest mistake you could ever make. Your blog needs SEO, without it how will people ever find your website and read your content?
Trying to implement SEO tactics to your own blog without preforming the necessary research can lead to pretty costly mistakes. It is important that you do your research about the best SEO tactics for your blog. As well as this, it is a good idea to understand the most common SEO mistakes bloggers make and learn from them. [Read more…]
5 Court Cases Where Social Media Played a Part
Not surprisingly, the prevalence of social media in the courtroom has risen as more people have adopted it. Everything you post – whether you expect it to be private or public – can come back to haunt you if you take someone to court or are taken to court. People have lost jobs, been refused custody, and been denied disability claims on the basis of social media profiles. [Read more…]
7 Legal Snares Every Blogger Should Avoid
Blogging may seem as easy as sitting down, typing some thoughts out, and hitting publish – but as you get deeper into the practice, you can run into some legal issues you might not expect. Knowing what they are can help you avoid any missteps. Some issues are common sense to people with publishing experience, but others may be a surprise. [Read more…]
Online writing: How to be a Successful Freelancer
The freelance economy is growing and with modern technologies, you can be a successful freelancer. Online writing offers you a great chance to earn more money and get out of debt. You can be a freelancer even if you have a full time job. In fact, you can use the additional income to settle your student loan payments, credit card payments, car loan payments, etc. [Read more…]
Learn from Business Entrepreneurs Who Take the Time to Train Others
What’s better than learning from people who’ve already been successful in business and not people who haven’t? It’s always a little difficult taking financial advisors seriously because they pass along retirement investing advice and yet they’ve never been retired or tried living off their own investments. It’s all theoretical. However, with successful entrepreneurs who are willing to share their experiences with other people so they can better themselves, there’s a genuineness that one can put faith in. [Read more…]
Yes, It’s Possible to Grab Loans When Working as a Freelancer
Freelancing has become an incredibly popular way for men and women around the world to make money. Freelancing is, in essence, having your own business. It allows you to not just generate your own income, but to control how much you earn. When you freelance, you take charge of your own finances and work life. Even though you may not actually register as a business, but rather as an independent contractor doing freelancing work, you may have difficulty acquiring a loan. [Read more…]
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