| By Karin, on February 12th, 2012 Only 20% of prospects ends up reading your content While most people read the title of content they come across, only one fifth of people ends up reading the entire piece of content. What you need to change to increase your readership . . . → Read More: How to get people to read your content By Karin, on February 6th, 2012 I am sure you have heard of Pinterest. The new social media kid on the block. I signed up for it some time ago, just to see what it is all about. I added a few pics of my favorite tennis players and that was about all. Much to my surprise people starting following me . . . → Read More: Pinterest is making waves By Karin, on June 20th, 2011 We are all aware of the speed with which the social media sites are growing and we all experience the difficulties of being found on the social media sites as a result of it. As a matter of fact, I asked you to fill out a survey a couple of weeks ago (thank you if . . . → Read More: Do follow a social bookmarking strategy By Karin, on June 13th, 2011 On June 1 Google fully launched the +1 button after having it available for a few months already in Google labs. With the +1 button, you can give your “public stamp of approval” to Google search results. This sounds logical and not very shocking, but I suspect that this button is going to have far . . . → Read More: The Google +1 button By Karin, on February 28th, 2011 Last week I announced that I have launched a new social bookmarking site, where you can post your content in a true do-follow environment. That is what I want for my content, so I figured you probably would like that as well. But it does not stop there. Because it is my site, I can . . . → Read More: Do-follow social bookmarking site wish list By Karin, on February 21st, 2011 If you have been a regular reader of my blog, you know that I like social bookmarking. I use it a lot myself and I try to keep up with all the developments around social bookmarking. Lately I have been wondering about all the social bookmarking sites. They all seem to be working the same way. There are a few exceptions, but not many. They are all focused on the news, without giving the small business owners much emphasis. When I realized this, I started asking myself the question: “what is the perfect social bookmarking site?” . . . → Read More: Do-follow social bookmarking site for your niche By Karin, on January 17th, 2011 The last several weeks I have written about Twitter. Every post had several comments from readers who prefer Facebook over Twitter. That is why I decided today to give you 7 strategies to increase your fan base. Fortunately for us, recruiting fans to your fan pages is not hard at all. But as always it . . . → Read More: 7 Facebook promotion strategies By Karin, on December 20th, 2010 One-way backlinks are your ticket to high search engine rankings for your keywords. I hope that the past three blog posts have shed some light on what one-way backlinks are and what you need to know about one-way backlinks to do well online. In this post I will give you a backlinking strategy that you . . . → Read More: One-way backlink strategy By Karin, on November 1st, 2010 Which social bookmarking sites should I be using? Or, what do you think of this social bookmarking site? I received these questions a lot this week, following my post about the traditional use of social bookmarking. Great questions, given that there are thousands of social bookmarking sites out there. Way too many to use by . . . → Read More: Which Social Bookmarking Sites Should I Choose? By Karin, on October 25th, 2010 I was talking to a friend today and realized that there may be some confusion as to how to use social bookmarking sites for the purpose of bookmarking websites! This may sound strange, but let me ask you the question a little different. How often do you go back to your own bookmarks and use them again? Or are you using social bookmarking sites only for the purpose of getting backlinks and are you not really interested in the topics that are being discussed? . . . → Read More: Social Bookmarking as your monitor of web activity |