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March 28th, 2008

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 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

March 24th, 2008

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 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 2 comments

February 21st, 2008

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 […]

By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments

February 13th, 2008

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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By Tris Hussey -- 3 comments