I would like to start by apologizing for not running the Sunday Link Love feature last week. It is the first post I have missed since I revised my blogging plan for 2011. It ended up being a pretty hectic day for me last Sunday as I had my phone and wallet stolen from the changing rooms whilst playing [...]
January 2011
Twitter is becoming a more and more important asset for businesses by the day. Stories like that of Dell who have reported that they have made over $6.5 million worth of sales through Twitter show that it is a marketing channel that can offer a huge return on investment. With more than 200 million users [...]
Writer’s block is a curse that seems to catch all bloggers and one point or another. For those of you who have not heard of the term ‘Writer’s Block’ before, Wikipedia offers a great definition: Writer’s block is a condition, associated with writing as a profession, where an author loses the ability to produce new work. [...]
This is a guest post by Dustin Hartzler from YourWebsiteEngineer.com. If you are interested in guest posting on David Shaw Blog, drop me an email. Websites, there are thousands of them online. Some are awesome and some are completely useless. I’m sure you’ve seen the horrible ones. The websites that you search forever to find [...]
We all want more followers on our Social Media channels right? More followers = more people who will come back to my blog, more people to RT and share all my posts. To some extent you can argue that this is true, but it is mostly complete nonsense. There is a common misconception that having [...]
When a visitor lands on your blog you have only a matter of seconds to convince them not to click off and carry on with their day. You have done the hard part by getting the reader to your blog, your next task is to get them to read the posts that you have spent [...]
Those of you who read yesterdays Sunday Link Love will know that I have created a strategy for this blog in 2011. One of the biggest aims is to increase the volume of posts on the blog but at the same time keep the quality high, so that you are always able to take something [...]
Where the hell did the last week go? Can’t believe it is Sunday again already. It has been a slow couple of week for this blog in terms of the number of updates, this is mainly due to me getting back into the swing of things since the Xmas/New year break as well as me [...]
Every blogger wants to increase their subscriber count and grow their blog. One of the most effective ways of doing this is to keep your readers coming back to your site. This helps to build a community around your blog and gets your articles shared by your readers to further increase your readership. It’s great [...]
