Blasting Your Blog Posts with Pingomatic

Pingomatic is a great way to let blog directories know about your updated blog posts.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton with SalesTipADay, www.SalesTipADay.com. Today I’m going to show you how to update search results on the different search engines when you’ve added content to your blog site. This is a great way to get your content out there.

The service I like to use is called Ping-O-Matic at pingomatic.com. What is Ping-O-Matic? It tells you right here: “It is a service to update different search engines as your web blog is being updated.” It’s very straightforward and easy to use.

First I take the name of my blog post or title of my story and paste it into the Ping-O-Matic field called Blog Name. After the title of my blog post, I put an upper score (the upper score is usually right above the backslash on your keyboard). Then I put the name of my company (SalesTipADay.com) after the upper score.

Next I want to add the URL of my blog page. I copy it from my blog and paste it into Ping-O-Matic’s Blog Home Page field.

Below that is a list of different search engines. Check off the ones you like. Because my blog has videos on it, I include the Specialized Services. You will see that on the right-hand side of Ping-O-Matic’s “Ping” section. Then Press “Send Pings.” Boom! Ping-O-Matic lets all these different places know that you’ve updated your blog site. That should drive traffic back to your web blog.

Hopefully you find this information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipAday.com. Thanks for viewing.

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How to Screen Capture a Keynote Presentation to Video

Keynote is a great Mac program.  Here is a way to do a video capture of your presentations.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton with SalesTipADay, www.SalesTipADay.com. Today I’m going to show you how to record a presentation using Keynote. This is Apple’s version of PowerPoint, and I think it has much better features.

Many of my clients aren’t comfortable with the idea of being seen online, but they have lots of great information to share. I advise them to make a slideshow presentation, record it, and then post that presentation online. Here’s how I get my clients to do this using Keynote.

Once you have prepared your presentation slides and are ready to record them, open up Keynote, press File and then press Record Slideshow. Once you click on Record Slideshow, Keynote will record your slides.

When you are finished recording, go back to the File menu and choose Export. You can export the file to QuickTime, PowerPoint and several others (I like to export my presentations to QuickTime). After you press Export, a screen pops up with some other features. You can record the audio. Sometimes you may want to remove the audio and just have music playing at the end of the slideshow. Then you press Next and save the presentation to a directory on your Mac.

That’s how you record a presentation in Keynote. It’s that simple. If you use a Mac, this is a great way to share your knowledge and market yourself.

I hope you find this information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipAday.com. Thanks for viewing.

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How to Install the AddThis Social Share Widget

AddThis is a great widget you can add to your website to help website visitors share your content.  It’s the ultimate viral marketing piece for your blog.  Here is how you can add the Addthis Social Share widget on a WordPress Site.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton here with SalesTipaADay, www.SalesTipADay.com. In a recent post, I talked about putting a social share widget on WordPress or any other type of website. On this post I’m going to take you through the steps so it’s easy for you to do on your own.

Start by going into the back end of your WordPress website. Next go into Plugins, and then hit Add New. Once you hit Add New, it will take you to a search bar. Type in Addthis (all one word). Then press the button Search Plugins and click Install Now.

Now you will see options for AddThis. This first one here—Share Buttons by AddThis—is the one you want to add to your website. The neat thing about this is it allows you choose how you want your share buttons to look. You can register your profile at the same time.

Let’s do it again. Go the back end of your WordPress website. Press Plugins, press Add New, type Addthis into the search bar, click Search Plugins and click Install Now. Once it’s on the site, you activate it. That’s how you add the widget AddThis which allows people to share and market your content for you and take your information viral. It’s great word-of-mouth marketing.

Hopefully you enjoyed that information. It’s Chris Hamilton here with SalesTipADay.com, www.SalesTipADay.com.

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The Add This Widget For WordPress

AddThis is a great widget you can add to your website to help website visitors share your content.  It’s the ultimate viral marketing piece for your blog.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton here with SalesTipaADay, www.SalesTipADay.com.

Today I’m going to show you something I like to use called AddThis. It’s a little widget you can put on your website that allows people to share your content across multiple sources. I’ll show you how this works on my website.

This is the AddThis widget at the top here. It’s a plug-in that comes with WordPress. One of the interesting things about widgets like these (there’s also another one called ShareThis) is that only about 34 percent of websites use them. This is astonishing, as it gives everyone a vehicle to market their product for free. Anyone coming onto your site can take your content and market it by sharing it.

This is a video of an interview I did with Dave Kerpen where he was talking about storytelling. I’ve already received nine Tweets, six Shares and one Like across multiple sites. My content is being shared all over the world for others to see.

My suggestion would be if you have a website, take a look at adding the AddThis widget. They also have a nice little engine that provides data on who is sharing what, how many times it is being shared, where it’s being clicked and many other things that are happening behind the scenes. The biggest plus, however, is getting other people to share or market your content to their own networks.

I hope you find this information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipAday.com. Thanks for viewing.

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How to Get More Social Media Followers

Here is a great way to get more social media followers.  It’s a WordPress plugin that you can add to your website.  Check out the video to learn more.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton here with SalesTipADay, www.SalesTipADay.com.

Today I’m going to show you a nifty little thing I have on my website. If you scroll far enough down, you will see all these buttons here. These buttons allow people to follow me. For instance, they can click on the LinkedIn button and it brings them to my actual LinkedIn profile. They can go to my Vimeo page. There are a lot of choices here.

This is actually a plugin from AddThis.com. You want to go to the back end of your WordPress site. Click Install Plugins. Then go to the upper bar and type in Addthis. Go to Plugins, click Add New and then type in Addthis, Search Plugins. It will bring it back. It then brings you to this button down here. Click Follow Buttons by AddThis.

It’s a great little way to get people to follow you online. It will potentially boost traffic to your website. It allows you to add buttons that send people to your against so they people can contact you.

I hope you find that information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipADay.com. Thanks for viewing.

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Using Moo to Create Business Cards

Here is a great service called Moo.com where you can make some great business cards.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton with SalesTipADay, www.SalesTipADay.com. Today I want to show you a great place to get business cards. It’s called Moo.com.

One of the nice things about Moo.com is you can do small runs while creating some high-caliber, heavy-stock cards. They print some nifty stuff like mini-cards and rounded-edge cards. You can do runs as small as 50 business cards. You can also create unique cards within one run using different graphics and designs. I typically do small runs of 200 which last me about a month.

Moo.com will also generate a QR code and include it on the business card. That directs people to your web page so you can capture someone’s name and email and add them to you mailing list.

Moo.com is a great service. You can do small runs. You can print cards with different designs in the same run. You can do mini cards and other variations of business cards. I highly recommend Moo.com.

I hope you find this information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipAday.com. Thanks for viewing.

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Using LinkedIn to Promote Your Blog Posts

Here is a great way that you can use LinkedIn to promote your Blog Posts

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton with SalesTipADay, www.SalesTipADay.com. Today I’m going to show you a great way to distribute content from your website.

Go into LinkedIn and join several groups. It’s best to join groups that focus on your target demographic. In order to join a group in LinkedIn, go to the Search bar, click on the menu to the left and choose Groups. Then type in keywords to search for the groups you like. I join some of the larger groups so I can maximize my exposure. I’m signed up with 50 groups—the maximum amount of groups allowed. The focus of these groups varies, but all the groups are pertinent to the markets I’m trying to reach. A lot of the groups I belong to are related to sales and marketing.

Now I go to my website or blog. I’ll pick the post I want to publish in LinkedIn. Next I need to find the LinkedIn button below the post (if you don’t see the button for LinkedIn, hover over the buttons you do see and a window will pop up. Choose LinkedIn). Once you hit the LinkedIn button, it will bring you to a LinkedIn page. You can see a thumbnail picture, if you have one, along with a snippet of your blog post. There’s a bit of an overview. You can edit this information if you choose.

Once at that page, go into the group field and type a letter of the alphabet to bring up some of the groups you belong to. When I type “S,” it brings up all the groups that start with the letter “S.” I click on the groups where I want to post this content. I might post it to the SalesTipADay group. I might post it to Small Media Marketing. I might put it into Sales Gravy. I’ll type another letter in the group field to bring up more groups I belong to. I know that businesspeople like Business Development. I might share it with my Calgary network. Canadian Business and Professionals Network because I live in Calgary. Then you hit Share. Your blog content will be posted to all the groups you chose.

This is an excellent way to market yourself because people go into these groups on a regular basis. If they think your content will be of interest to them, they’re going to start regularly reading your posts. By going through this process of taking a blog post and using the Shareaholic or AddThis widgets, you can send your information to LinkedIn and potentially have tens of thousands of people exposed to that content on a regular basis.

I hope you find that information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipADay.com. Thanks for viewing.

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Distributing Blog Posts Through Shareaholic

Distributing Blog Posts Through Shareaholic. Shareaholic is a great way to take your blog posts and to distribute them to numerous different social media platforms.

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Hello, it’s Chris Hamilton from SalesTipADay.com. Today I’m going to talk about a great widget that will help you quickly and easily share your content online. It’s called Shareaholic.

 Shareaholic will take your blog posts and send them out to selected groups of people and social media sites. It allows you to share your content with different services. You start by going to Shareaholic.com and signing up for an account. Once you have an account, you can put the link to it on your toolbar in order to get to the site quickly.

Here’s one of the nifty things I do that allows me to share my content in multiple places. I go to the LinkedIn tab in Shareaholic. It allows me to post my story to different groups I belong to (I’m a member of about fifty different groups on LinkedIn). Whenever I have a story or a blog post that is relevant to a particular demographic, I’ll send appropriate subject-matter content. In this case I would probably choose Business Development. I’d probably post it in my group, SalesTipADay. I might put it into Small Business. I can put the content into all of my groups if I think it’s appropriate.

Shareaholic allows you to take a bit of information from your blog post or website and post updates. You can also send your updates to individuals. I think the best function is, in fact, posting it into groups on LinkedIn. The nice thing about using the LinkedIn group function is that many people receive a group email once a week and your content will end up in their Inboxes. In fact, I believe doing this with LinkedIn is my fifth or sixth largest source of traffic to my website. It’s well worth looking into. They’ve got numerous social media sites on here, including some of the bigger ones like Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and so on.

I hope you find that information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipADay.com.

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Using Miro Video Converter to Make Audio Files

Miro is a great, free, open source video converter that I use to rip the audio from my videos for my podcasts.  I highly recommend that you check it out.

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Hi, there. It’s Chris Hamilton here with SalesTipADay, www.SalesTipADay.com and today I’m going to show you how to rip audio from a video.

This is something you may want to do if you create videos for yourself online or have a video presentation and want to create podcasts (something I often do). You can also use it if you’ve downloaded a video and just want the audio. It’s really simple to use.

I use a product called Miro Video Converter. It works with both Macs and Windows. Take the video file you want to convert and just drag it into the little window here. Once that is complete, the video file is queued to get converted.

Miro gives you options for formatting the audio. I click the Format button and then click Audio. Then choose the MP3 format and hit the Convert button. Once it’s finished, you have an output file and you can drag it into any file folder you want. Once you have an MP3, you can upload it to a podcasting service or do anything else you may want with the audio.

I hope you find this information useful. For daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipADay.com.

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Getting Audiobooks from Audible

Audible is a great service that you can use to download audio book.  I especially like audio books for when I am travelling around in my car or when I am out for a jog.

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Hello, it’s Chris Hamilton from SalesTipADay.com. Today I’m going to talk to you about something I really like, and that’s Audible.com. If you haven’t heard about Audible yet, it’s a website where you can download audiobooks onto your iPod, iPhone or whatever device you might have.

There are so many different books you can get. They break things down into categories like Sales and Marketing. I usually go through the Business or Self Development sections. They’ve got all the latest books: The Referral Engine. That’s one I love. Duct Tape Marketing. That’s another one I love. You can get some of the Consumer’s Favorites. Bestsellers. New Releases.

They have a membership program which I use because you end up spending less. The membership plan I have costs about $22.00 per month, but you receive two “credits.” Each credit allows you to download one audiobook for free. If you look at the cost of downloading the audiobooks without a membership, it costs a lot more. I usually read about two books a month, so it works great for me.

Thanks for listening. If you want to find out more daily sales and marketing tips, go to www.SalesTipADay.com.

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