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Chris Brogan’s Tips for Freelancers and social media work for all bloggers

March 28, 2008 by Tris Hussey  
Filed under Business News

Chris Brogan’s Tips for Freelancers and social media work for all bloggers

As part of Chris’ continuing 100 Social Media tips, he posted some great tips for freelancers on how to leverage social media tools and techniques for more business/profile:
Summary
If you’re a freelancer hoping to use social media to get work, here’s a quick summary:

Make your blog your storefront.
Kill all the extraneous stuff from it.
Write posts that establish your experience and abilities in the industry.
Write other posts that promote other people, too.
Contribute beyond the walls of your blog.
Attend real time events, too.
Consider if you want to add audio and video.
Give to get.
Ask for the sale.

What else do you successful freelancers ( …read more

Seven steps to a better blog from Chris Brogan

March 24, 2008 by Tris Hussey  
Filed under Business News

Seven steps to a better blog from Chris Brogan

Ready to take your blog and blogging to the “next level” (whatever that means to you)?  Chris Brogan has seven really simple things you can do to help you improve your blog and blogging:

Hire an editor
Be the About
Use FeedBurner 
Pay attention to the FORMAT of your writing
Make it easy to comment
Tell us something new
Start storing up posts for rainy days

Source: Seven Blog Improvements You Can Make Today | chrisbrogan.com

I try to work with the “if you can’t be first, be smarter” mantra (I know I’ve said that here before).  If you’re going to take the time to read this blog, …read more

Heading to Affiliate Summit next week and I need your t-shirts!

February 21, 2008 by Tris Hussey  
Filed under Business News

Heading to Affiliate Summit next week and I need your t-shirts!

Next week I’ll be at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas.  Yeah, no I won’t be gambling.  I would like to ride that roller coaster on the top of the building though.  Regardless I’m on what is going to be a kick-butt panel talking about social media to affiliate marketers.
How kick butt?  Check out who is on it from Steph’s post yesterday:
In other news…it’s time for Affiliate Summit! I’ll be arriving in Vegas this Saturday, and excited about the Social Media Panel, which I will be on with the following Twitterati: Sam Harrelson (moderator), Deborah Schultz, Chris Brogan, Tris Hussey, …read more

Creativity and tools–you need to be open and try new things

February 13, 2008 by Tris Hussey  
Filed under Business News

Creativity and tools–you need to be open and try new things

I saw this post earlier from Chris Brogan–Tools Restrict Your Thinking : [chrisbrogan.com]–and it got me thinking about work and how you get things done.
Chris is right, riffing off his idea if I got it right, the tools you choose to do your work defines how the work will be done.
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Think about how you write a blog post or read RSS or even fix something around the house.  What do you use to get the job done?  Of course there …read more


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