Category Archives: Marketing

Marketing tips, tricks, and tutorials from Laura Christianson, The Blogging Barista.

Looking to Hire or be Hired? Try These 7 Little-Known Crowdsourcing Sites [Plus Infographic]

This is a guest post by LIz de Ocampo. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines.

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Crowdsourcing sites — websites that involve outsourcing tasks to different groups of people or individuals — are getting popular because crowdsourcing provides mutual benefits to clients and contributors.

Whether you like to explore online earning opportunities or want to try the services from these types of websites, here are some crowdsourcing gems that you may consider:   read more >

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Author Davis Bunn is Giving Away 100 Novels!

Davis Bunn, one of our author clients, is giving away 100 ‘influencer’ copies of his soon-to-be-published novels, Rare Earth and Hidden in Dreams. If you’re not familiar with Davis Bunn’s work, this would be a great opportunity to get introduced…   read more >

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Panhandler Marketing: Six Things Hobos Get Very Right

This is a guest post by Carrie Schmeck. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines.   “Hey Lady, can you spare a dollar? I need to feed my kids.” In my town, panhandlers have…   read more >

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Dinner with Tens of Thousands: What Social Media Did for One Author’s Career (Guest Post)

This is a guest post by Kathryn Jones. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines. When I published my first book ten years ago, I had no idea how prolific social…   read more >

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9 Critical Marketing Lessons I Learned from the Kirby Vacuum Salesman

Picture this scenario: My workday opened with a two-hour meeting at the offices of one of my clients. On the way home, I swung by Costco to pick up some essentials (we have teenage sons, so milk, bread, and bananas…   read more >

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The Truth About Elevator Pitches and Brand Messaging

How should you develop — and deliver your brand message? How can you prove to your boss that social media is, indeed, a wise investment? How do you plan an effective social media strategy– without overdoing it? The following four…   read more >

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Five Tips for Selling Your Services on Fiverr

This is a guest post by Peter Claridge. If you would like to submit a guest article, please check out our guest post guidelines.   You can’t have failed to notice Fiverr.com in the last 12 months. But if you…   read more >

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MOO Offers Free Facebook Timeline Business Cards

Printing company MOO, Inc. is offering an innovative type of business card. They’ve teamed up with Facebook to create “Facebook Timeline Cards” –- a funky card that features the cover photos from your Facebook Timeline and makes a separate card…   read more >

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How to Create a Social Poll with Quipol (Tutorial)

~Will Obama win a second term?

~Is Seinfeld the best sitcom of all time?

~Did you buy Call of Duty 4 on opening day?

Take the pulse of your online audience quickly with a free web-based social polling tool called Quipol. I’m guessing that’s short for “Quick Poll.”

It’s easy to use. Here’s how:

Step 1:

Go to Quipol.com and sign up for a free account.

Be sure to create a branded username for your account; I chose http://quipol.com/bloggingbistro, since “bloggingbistro” is   read more >

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Black Friday Has Become Black Thursday

Remember that day we used to celebrate — the one where we’d join with family and friends to thank God for our many blessings, eat turkey, take naps, and watch football? Some retailers would have us ignore that day altogether…   read more >

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