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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.

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"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
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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.

Don’t Look Now But Your Video Isn’t Showing

Posted by: Jim Harris on 6/24/2010 | 0 Comments

Categories:
Web Design

Video appeals to the visual and auditory senses, influences consumer's buying decisions and has the power to temporarily hypnotize the viewer. More importantly, video can be utilized to increase a company's brand awareness and boost sales of products and services.

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

Categories:
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.

Should I Write a Blog or use Twitter?

Posted by: Jim Harris on 4/15/2010 | 0 Comments

Categories:
Social Media

Before blogging came on the scene, there were only limited ways people could communicate to a large audience – essentially newspapers, magazines, books, reports and personal letters; to name a few. No quick and easy way to reach out to the masses for sure! With the internet and the evolution of the blog and other social media platforms, written communication has now been elevated to a higher level. Today you don’t have to get hired by a newspaper or magazine… get someone to publish your book to be heard – to truly affect change. Today anyone can write an article and post it to the internet and it is immediately transmitted all the way around the world as soon as they press the enter key. WOW! But getting the world to actually read...