What does the Arsenio Hall Show have to do with images on your blog? An image that makes your reader go hmmm… at the beginning of every blog post can increase the likelihood someone will read it in the first place as well as the likelihood he/she will read the post in its entirety. Your audience is more likely to read a particular blog post if it has an image, and he/she is more likely to read the whole post IF it’s not a connection he or she thought they already knew. Use at least one compelling image every time you write a blog post. Practical Tips. MORE >>

We’ve implemented an editorial calendar at Buzzshift before, but recently, however, we were repeatedly asked again and again, “what is the best time to publish a blog post?” Our primary objective was to determine the most effective time(s) to publish our blog posts. All the more reason to test for YOUR blog (or your client’s blog) and YOUR audience. Hits” don’t matter to us, especially with blog posts, because people tend to go back and read them again and again, and bots crawl daily, so unique visitors are a better measure. B testing. Editorial calendars. MORE >>

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Social Media Expert: Hey, welcome to my social media blog! Do you read The Oatmeal ? Recently, the often humerous website featured a new comic called,  8 Websites You Need to Stop Building. Number five on the list was social media websites. I mean c’mon, who really needs another site to keep up with their friends, right? But at this point the the comic  struck a bit of a nerve. In the strip, the author creates a staged conversation between a “social media expert” and an average Joe. After that you need to tweet a lot and update a facebook fan page. It’s really complicated stuff. MORE >>

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