Last evening, I attended a great event hosted by Leanne Gillespie of Shift Designs. She is a local designer and I highly recommend her for your logo, brochures, catalogs, etc. Anyway, she blogs quite a bit and is always being asked about how to build a blog; what they best tools were and tricks of the trade. Anyway, the class was valuable and I look forward to others, but here were a few things I learned….
- A widget is the list of items on the side of your blog: RSS, categories, blogroll, partners, etc.
- I learned it’s best to blog consistently. This doesn’t mean you have to blog daily, but in a consistent manner. Her recommendation is daily or on the same days each week so if you are only going to blog a few days a week, always blog on the same day. (We have not been doing that)
- I learned I can add a security code to the comments section to reduce spam comments.
- I learned how to install and use google analytics. Love this tool!
I enjoy blogging. I like to write and I have a fair amount to say (as many of you know by now). The A Red Bench was already set up, but I learned quite a bit from attending a 90 minutes workshop and got some basic questions answered. Invest in knowing how to use these awesome tool effectively and contacting Leanne for her next training or your design needs.
And coming soon from A Red Bench, the announcement of our TeleSummit called From Prospects to Profits: Thriving Using Social Media. Email us at info@aredbench.com if you want to know about this before anyone else.
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