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Picture This' blog offers professional advice, opinions, humor, expertise and personality on a variety of topics. Our intent is to share valuable information (for free) to anyone interested in expanding their understanding of the internet and all of the tools/methods available to promote recognition of a product or service to the world.

Recent Comments

"This is a really interesting post, and one a lot of folks should consider when revealing their entire lives to Facebook. I saw this article on Friday May 20th, 2010 - in the Economist magazine. "Executives at Facebook met to decide whether they should simplify the 170 privacy options on the social-networking website amid growing unease about the public availability of users’ personal information." Here is a link to the full article. http://www.economist.com/business-finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=16167766 " Read more
by Neil on Facebook - Is Your Privacy At Risk?

"We are wanting to add a blog to our email marketing out reach effort. Do you guys offer Social Media support/assistance?" Read more
by Joey G on Integrating Social Media into Your Email Marketing

"Wow, so simple, but clearly overlooked. Good post." Read more
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Bloggers

Business Blog Bling

Posted by: Jim Harris on 6/30/2010 | 0 Comments

Categories:
Social Media
Web Design

To bling or not to bling - that is the question? Actually, it's the answer. Bling is simply "jazzing up" your business blog. This can be done in a variety of ways - images, colors, fonts, video, icons, badges, social bookmarks, audio and on and on. Read the post and start blinging your blog today.

Happy Memorial Day

Posted by: Robert Landreth on 5/31/2010 | 0 Comments

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Social Media

Everyone here at Picture This wants to wish you and your family a fun, happy and safe Memorial Day. This day is dedicated to all the military people who sacrificed everything for the freedoms we enjoy to this day.

Facebook - Is Your Privacy At Risk?

Posted by: Robert Landreth on 5/21/2010 | 1 Comment

Categories:
Social Media

Privacy issues seem to be on the forefront of every headline these days! One of these headlines is about Facebook's recent launch of a feature called Instant Personalization. What is it? Should I be concerned? Can I do anything about it?

What is an RSS Feed, and How Can You Use One to Your Advantage?

Posted by: Jim Harris on 5/18/2010 | 0 Comments

RSS stands for “Really Simple Syndication”. Web feeds benefit publishers by letting them syndicate content automatically (i.e. blog postings, press releases, videos, podcasts, vblogs, etc). They benefit readers who want to subscribe to timely updates from favored websites or to aggregate feeds from many sites into one place. If you are a person who regularly uses the internet to get information you’re probably very familiar with the value of an RSS feed. If you not that familiar.... read on!

Size Really Does Matter!

Posted by: Jim Harris on 4/24/2010 | 0 Comments

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Social Media

We’ve all heard those comments that sound something like, “…You know size doesn’t matter” or “You better believe size REALLY matters”. When it comes to the size of your blog, “How big is it?” Blogging produces results. According to Hubspot’s “The State of Inbound Lead Generation”, businesses that blog as part of their strategy generate inbound leads, increase pages indexed by Google (and other search engines) and attract visitors to a web site. Hubspot’s report goes on to say that once a blog gets to critical mass – somewhere in the range of 20 to 50 articles – median monthly leads increased by 30%. Blogs that had 52+ articles generated leads that were 77% higher than the median result of the 20 to 50 group.