20+ Commonly Asked Questions About Blogging & Online Marketing

via kikolani.com

Terrific summary, as always from Kikolani. I must remember to update the widget bar of my blog to explain who it's written for.

Stager Training Tip: Karen Otto's Texas Two-Step

Stager Trainer, Karen Otto, offers the Texas Two-Step and then maxes the effort with beautiful, professional photos in this fabulous Texas home staged for sale

Adding Value When You Sell Your Home

A home is most folks' biggest asset.  What do we expect assets to do?  Appreciate in value.  Yet a home won't do that unless you add the value to it.  

Keeping a house updated, cleaned, maintained in tip-top working order... these are all vital steps to preserve your asset and grow its value.  Here's a magnificent example from stager trainer, Janine Varney, of a home staging that combined a little updating with spectacular accessorizing, thereby improving the unit's value, and ultimately, its quick and effortless sale.

To learn how you, too, can stage like this, please visit our stager training packages and SAR certification procedures.

 

Paula Dean: Your Massive Opportunity, should you choose to take it.

This week, Paula Dean finally let it be known that she had Type 2 diabetes.  For years she's created the most sinfully delicious food, that we all knew had to be bad for you.  Yet, there she was, this jovial, pretty lady, with huge diamonds, massive smiling eyes, that infectious laugh - the living proof of abundance and joie de vivre!

That she claims she never told anyone to eat her food everyday simply isn't true.  I've watched her show for years, and even got her Southern Cooking Bible as a Christmas present this year, and nowhere did she say that.  Indeed, aren't most Southerners supposed to read their bible once a day, at the very least?!

So, for her to hide her diabetes - apparently she's known for 2 years - feels duplicitous and sneaky.  Understandable, perhaps, given all the crap she's had to endure: Anthony Bourdain calling her "the most dangerous woman in America", for example!  And her livelihood would falter...perhaps.

Imagine if, instead, she had announced it as soon as she found out, with distress and fear, adn then immediately found a diet that fits her way of cooking as quickly as possible.  You can have lots of butter on the Atkins program.  Or the Dukan Diet - which is low fat, low carb but tons of protein and man would I love to have a Paula Dean show me how to put her style of flavoring and zest into a high protein diet!

I'd love to follow her as she tries to redo each of her recipes in a new style.  Even if she opts for a Weight Watchers approach.  Their food's awful, too.  Wouldn't you pay money to watch her try to adapt?  Sometimes she'd hit it and sometimes not, but it would be authentic, honest and extremely entertaining.

What I wouldn't give to have a Paula Deen beside me on my own quest to drop 61 pounds!  Laughing and joking together about all the hits, and misses.  As it is, I'm doing it alone, with a very patient husband who frequently tells me

nah, I can't eat any more of this, honey; it's spectacularly bad."

 I'm trying to adapt; I just wish I knew about how foods and flavors combine.  Where are you, Paula?  America needs you... and not just because we all just bought your "bible"!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416564071/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=h...

 

 

Google Music | Google Flights | Google + Pages

I've been riveted by all things Google of late!

From this post today by FastCompany on Google Music -- though I always worry that these programs are always for people who like pop and contemporary music.  Rarely is the depth of selection there for the classical music lovers amongst us --

to Guy Kawasaki weighing in on Google Flights --

and finally my own 2 cents-worth on Google + and Google + Pages

Free Photos, if you send their ad. The New World of Digital Media!

Such a clever idea!  Whenever I think I have a handle of what we can all do with web based marketing, someone comes up with an ingenious idea and my brain starts wheeling in a whole 'nother direction again!!  This would work sooooo well for a resort town like ours in Myrtle Beach!

 

 

Free love is always a great way to get consumers' attention, but if it can be branded and shared virally, it becomes a killer promotional tool. Enter PhotoBoxi, a device that turns the traditional photo booth into an advertiser's best friend.

PhotoBoxi is a sleek, portable and interactive digital photo booth that dispenses free love while capturing consumer data, generating leads and facilitating social network marketing. How it works? Consumers pose for free digital photos using the rented self-serve booth at a venue or event. Those photos then get instantly delivered to their email account, mobile phone and social networking sites along with the advertiser’s logo or message in an accompanying frame. From there, the photos spread virally as they're shared across myriad social networks — as does the brand's message. Advertisers even receive a Proof of Performance report indicating the number of photos taken; they also get users' email data in Microsoft Excel format and social photo analytics tracking where photos have been shared. A basic rental fee of USD 795 includes four hours of rental; local delivery, set-up and on-site tech; unlimited instant photo capture; 90-day online photo storage; and photos sent to customers after the event. Clients so far have included FIJI Water, Saks Fifth Avenue, Madam Tussauds, Procter & Gamble, Chivas, Heineken, Coca-Cola and National Geographic.

More at: - http://springwise.com/weekly/2010-12-08.htm#photoboxi

Attention, all Myrtle Beach SEO Marketing Consultants -- we got to get ourselves one of these in town.  The possibilities are infinite!!!!!

 

26 Tips to Snazz Up Your Facebook Page

A fab list of activities to engage your fans of your Facebook page (one of the most often used online visibility tactics around today) from the Social Media Examiner today, that I am sharing with you all, simply so that I have a record of it other than in my HUGE bookmarks folder!!

http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/26-tips-for-enhancing-your-facebook-page/