Small Business Website Tips, Social Media

Weekly Roundup: Website and Social Media Resources (Dec 20 – Dec 26)

While you were out Christmas shopping, traveling and trying to stab, cut and bite your way into your children’s new toys, content creators were pushing out new tips & resources. Today, you’re probably exhausted, possibly injured or in a food coma. While you recover, take some time to think about your plans for your business during 2010. Also take some time to read the top (IMHO) resources, found during the week of Dec 20. I believe that each provides valuable, accurate and timely information regarding enhancing your business, website, blog and/or social media presence.

TIP: Realizing that there are only 24 hours in a day and a significant portion of that is used for work, eating, sleeping and working off the 15 pounds you’ve gained since Thanksgiving, you may wish to create a “To Read” bookmark folder in your favorite internet browser, then save (bookmark) the following links into that folder. Once you’ve read the article, you can print & save your favorite articles, then delete the item from the “To Read” bookmark folder. This will help you manage your list of articles “To Read”.

On Personal & Business Development:

1. “5 Time Wasters related to Planning (and a Poll)” by Bob Bessette (TotallyUniqueLife)
2. “How To Create Measurable Objectives” by Amber Naslund (AltitudeBranding.com)
3. “5 Ways to Grow Your Local Business with Social Media” written by John Jantsch (American Express Open Forum)
4. “If Your Business Sucks, Don’t Blame the Market” by Jonathan Fields (JonathanFields.com)

On Website Development & Enhancement:

1. “6 Website Redesign SEO Secrets Your Developer May Not Know” by Jill Whalen (ISEdb)
2. “Interface Design Inspiration | 30 Impressive Ways to Design Sign-Up Page/Form” by Deep (dzineblog.com)
3. Resource: Use browsershots.org to see how your site looks on different browser versions and operating systems. (Quick Tip from Kishau)
4. “Why copywriting is like selling (part 7)” by Otis Maxwell (OtisMaxwell.com) * NOTE: Click here for Part 1 of the 7 part series *
5. “Annual Checkup: Who Owns Your Domain Name, Really?” by Kishau Rogers (Websmith Group) … Yes. I did.

On Social Media:

1. “100 Tips Essential to being a Smarter, Better Twitterer” by Jim Grygar (JimGrygar)
2. “Listening Posts: The Six Free Listening Tools You Cannot Do Without” by Debra Askanase (eJewishPhilanthropy.com)
3. “Adding Value with Online Community: Listen to the Webcast On-Demand” by Evan Cook (SocialMediaToday.com)
4. “10 Top New Web Services of 2009 (From My Perspective)” by Louis Gray (LouisGray)
5. “Social media marketing explained in 61 words” by David Meerman Scott (WebInkNow)

On Blogging:

1. On Dying, Mothers, and Fighting for Your Ideas by Jonathan Morrow (CopyBlogger)
2. “The ‘It Factor’ – How to Get It as a Blogger” by Darren Rowse (ProBlogger)
3. “If I Were a Realtor” by Chris Brogan (ChrisBrogan.com) * NOTE: if you’re in real estate, the tips provided in this post should be seriously considered. IMO. *

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