When social media (Facebook and LinkedIn) first became popular, I thought it was an amazing medium. I was continually receiving invitations from high school friends or business contacts. Before long, I had hundreds of contacts on each site and I thought I was pretty well connected. I also reached out to others to build my […]
Every website owner wants their website to rank well on Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is basically what you can do to your website to boost it in the search engine rankings. If you want your website to appear at or near the top of search results, you need to do certain […]
Donors receive numerous partnership proposals with non-profit organizations. However, your selection criteria for a partnership on any project depends on four main elements explained below. 1.Visibility When determining the appropriate partner for a partnership on any project, foundations look to available organizations from various sources. To ensure that your nonprofit is visible, an effort should […]
The 18th century economist Adam Smith was one of the founders of modern economics. Wake a copywriter from his sleep at 3:00 am and ask him what he knows about Adam Smith and he’s likely to utter the now-famous two-word metaphor: “invisible hand.” What is the invisible hand? In his historical text: The Wealth of […]
Planning a mystery story seems easy enough for most writers. Decide who the killer, the victim and the detective are. Give the killer a purpose for committing his crime and the victim a reason to be killed. Piece of cake, right? Mistaken. A mystery with only one plot would be a pretty boring story. Mysteries […]
Social Media Marketing (SMM) is a process of increasing web traffic or simply getting attention through social networking sites. SMM programs basically focus on efforts to create content that encourages people to share it on their social media profiles. In SMM, a corporate message is propagated from each user that probably resonates with their appearance […]
When was the last time you heard or witnessed a great performance? Of the performances he’s seen in the past few months, how many would he rate 8-10, 5-7, maybe less? Creating a great presentation takes time. You can’t expect to quickly put together a few slides and then go through them without any practice […]
Essential WordPress Plugins With a growing list of over 20,000 plugins, sometimes it’s a bit tricky to figure out which plugins to use. This is a quick overview of 12 essential WordPress plugins that every WordPress blog should have. The good news is that (as of this writing) they are all completely free. The following […]
As I write this, I can smell the fragrant goodness of mesquite and hickory wood mixed with country-style spare ribs and the heady meatiness of sirloin tip roast. My Masterbuilt electric smoker is spewing clouds of white smoke into the suburban grid, and I’m annoying my neighbors with the aroma of freshly smoked meat. Today […]
A raster image processor (RIP) is a component used in a printing system that produces a raster image, also known as a bitmap, the most common of which are TIFF (.tif), BMP (.bmp), PICT (.pct), GIF (.gif), JPEG (.jpg). There are also other native Photoshop PSD formats that support bitmap, text, and vector layers. The […]