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Flog That Blog | 5 Tips For Starting Your Own Blog

So, you’re launching a new blog for your company or business. Excellent. It’s a great way to drum up interest in your products or services. If you’re new to blogging, here are five tips to get you going. 1. Have something to say. This seems obvious … until you read yet another blogpost by somebody […]

Laura Bergheim· August 28, 2014· 2 min read
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Wordsmithie — Here, There and Everywhere

As Laura wrote in her recent post, Wordsmithie is a rapidly growing organization. Although our home base is in San Jose, near several of our Silicon Valley clients, we’re a widely scattered bunch. Many of our ’smithies operate in the Bay Area, but several live and work on the East Coast. We have others in […]

Jim Leeke· August 18, 2014· 2 min read
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Make Your Content More Shareable

Businesses and organizations make a mistake if they optimize their online content just for search engines, which are really about one-on-one findability. You should also optimize for social media, which is about shareability. While important, search engine optimization (SEO) is essentially a pull mechanism. It requires individual searchers, each actively seeking to discover your content. […]

Jim Leeke· June 30, 2014· 2 min read