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How to Master E-commerce Content Marketing | SEJ
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E-commerce is not for the faint hearted. Want to get natural links to your product pages? Try e-commerce content marketing!
Going to riff a long post on these e-commerce content ideas on Curagami.
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Get paid for blogging! If you have something people want to read, share it on blogbank and make money in the process.
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Has BlogBank Figured Out How To PAY Bloggers? via @theBloHas BlogBank Figured Out How To PAY Bloggers? via @theBlogBank #startups #cooltools
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Get paid for blogging! If you have something people want to read, share it on blogbank and make money in the process.
Blog Bank
What if you could get PAID to blog? Sounds great right? But there’s a problem. I don’t blog to get paid. I blog to give back
Blog Bank is an interesting startup with an easy to use, well-crafted microblogging and micropayments User Interface. I blog almost daily and know a passel of bloggers. Would they like to get paid?
Sure, but no one I know blogs to get paid OR we get “paid” in other currency such as followers, shares, and likes. If you read the great book DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Pink note his discussion of mercenaries vs altruists.
Pink puts the money motivated at 15% of the population with 85% wanting to “do the right thing”. Every blogger I know would blog and is blogging without a thought to currency compensation.
“Blogger psychology” creates a significant barrier for BlogBank.com as structured today. The chance even my friends with following that dwarfs mine would make enough to pay for the meal I just had at Durham’s Burger Bach seems remote and besides the point - they don’t care and don’t blog to make burger money.
On the other hand, BlogBank.com has created a smooth, mobile friendly and potentially cool tool IF / WHEN they expand their game. My friends don’t blog for cash, but they sure do so for OTHER KINDS OF COMPENSATION (OKC).
I try to keep a running total in my head. When someone shares, likes or does some menschy thing to support Curagami.com or content on one of my social nets I try to make a mental, “need to pay back” note. If that “mental note” sounds precarious and fraught with lost opportunity you know me (lol).
What if BlogBank.com could do some basic Online Reputation Management and tell me when I’m OVER or UNDER with major supporters, those who JUST supported me (or my content) and alerted me to those I SHOULD be supporting?
If you read David Amerland’s important What If We Had A New Value System for Goods and Services you can tell that one stumbling block is lack of a BANK. Maybe BlogBank.com isn’t what it thinks it is or, better yet, maybe it is what we need it to be they just don’t know it yet :). Marty
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BruceClay - SEO Silos - how to build a website silo architecture
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How to Silo a website by the original inventors of Siloing - silo architecture and theme building through directory and virtual silos.
I took Bruce’s SEO class in Mill Valley, CA years ago. His conversation about siloing was fascinating and felt right. Now I’m working on siloing and it continues to feel RIGHT though HARD (lol). Given and perhaps especially because of the SEO changes siloing feels even more “right” than ever.
If you’ve “siloed” a site please share tips and ideas and we will do the same on Curagami.com
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Tao of Marty: Web Marketing Secrets
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The Tao of Marty summarizes the OVER (gain) versus UNDER (loss) philosophy we used to make over $30M in online sales with hundreds of thousands of orders.
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Perfect LinkedIn Profile Infographic
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Great LinkedIn Tips
We’re not big believers in “perfect”. Perfect is a tyranny few can afford in a digital age, but we did find about 5 helpful hints from this massive missive on how to use LinkedIn effectively. The iinfographic is full of helpful information on te single most critical personal branding tool on the planet - LinkedIn.
Perfect LinkedIn Profile Infographic
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Great LinkedIn Tips
We’re not big believers in “perfect”. Perfect is a tyranny few can afford in a digital age, but we did find about 5 helpful hints from this massive missive on how to use LinkedIn effectively. The iinfographic is full of helpful information on te single most critical personal branding tool on the planet - LinkedIn.
Don’t Add This Image To Your Website - Learn Why
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Web Design Tips - Image FIles
The questions we ask are often wrong on their face. In this case a website owner was asking how best to put the detailed image of rug, pillows and sofa on their website. The answer is they shouldn’t.
The detailis so HEAVY it will need a jpeg or compressed file to look good and NOT slow down page load times. The text on the right is the real problem. When you use jpegs text looks horrible because the compression makes everything fuzzy.
The human eye doesn’t notice fuzzy in the rug and pillows, but in things we’re trying to read fuzzy sucks. That is why this image shouldn’t be loaded to any website. An image of the rug, pillows and sofa can be loaded as a jpeg and the text should be written in with a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS).
CSS will write the text into the html and so be readable. At this point designing with CSS is so common anyone asking for money to design a website should be able to create a layer with the text in it. The little point might be a tad tricky, but not so tricky most designers shouldn’t be able to handle it.
The serif font is a whole other issue (lol), but the answer to how to put this image up is already wrong. This image shouldn’t go up to the web as we explain on Stack Exchange.
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Website Design - How to save a file in photoshop that is supposed to be displayed on a web site? - Graphic Design Stack Exchange
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Web Design Tips - Image FIles
What kind of file should you use for a web image? What size should your files be? The answer to those questions took us about 500 words to explain on Stack Overflow’s Graphic Design Board today because the correct answer to what file type is, “It depends…”.
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