Funny how things come full circle. When I first dipped my toes into creating a business online, it was quite popular to create iframe pages of other websites. In particular, to sites you have an affiliate relationship with. Then, things changed, people complained and iframing a website is frowned upon by the web community and users alike. Fast forward about 15 years and now you’ll find tools like Snip.ly. Before moving forward, let me say this is not a criticism about them. In fact, it’s the opposite. I’m very impressed with what they offer and their marketing team is sharp because by a simple re-framing of the offer (brand retention/call to action for social shares vs iframes), they have turned something that once caused alarm bells to set off, into something new, sexy, social, and useful. Kudos! So, what’s the purpose of this post? Simply to offer an alternative and to present a no-cost method, as well as providing a wonderful HTML/CSS learning opportunity for those who want it. Ready? Read on. Just so you know – here’s the end result of what we will be building. 1. Create The HTML Page By now you know the basis of the

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There’s a new browser experience on the horizon for those of us to like to have tons of tabs open while we work among other things. It’s slated as the advanced users browser and it’s called Vivaldi. While it’s still in the infancy phase I can see its potential. There is a preview download available now but it won’t be fully functional yet. I look forward to seeing what this baby can do!

The purpose of social media networking is to engage with others, right? But, sometimes it’s hard to get others to engage with your brand though. So today I’d like to share with you an infographic that will help you create the perfect post to connect with your audience: .   Don’t forget the most important advice of all to build rapport – interact with commenters.

Most of us spend a lot of time on our blogs providing great tips, tools and advice so we want people to come see what we’ve got. Getting traffic is sometimes not the easiest thing to increase but I’ve run across some great ideas on boosting your traffic on existing content with 10 simple tips. I’ve implemented some of these already. No. 2 jumped out at me as something everyone should do as well. With the tools they provided it should be a breeze. Thinking of that maybe I should go back and alter some of my older posts too.

We always provide the best quality and service possible to our customers, right? Right. But, sometimes we don’t get the sales we expect and can’t put our finger on the problem. Derek Halpern of Social Triggers wrote about this very issue today. It’s interesting how different customers perceive the same sales copy in various ways. Learn what each type of sideliner – the Indifferent, the Skeptic, the Worrier and the Procrastinator – needs from you to make the sale.

For some people, automation is only for large processes. Not me. I believe it’s the small, repeated tasks and clunky processes that sucks up your time without you ever noticing. They are sneaky like that. That’s why every time there’s an opportunity to shave off a minute here, 30 seconds there, I would seize it. Two of my favorite services to help automate tasks or create a more efficient workflow are Zapier and IFTTT. If you’d like to put a jump on your productivity this year with some automation, here’s a list to start with. Curation Create an automated task from email to your WordPress site. When you have a few minutes waiting in line or waiting for an appointment, scroll through your reading list – I use Flipboard and/or Feedly. Send an email to your task when you find something you’d like to curate. If you set the task up right, you will now have a brand new curated post on your blog. The only problem with this is images. Zapier can take attachments and they store it on their systems. So you can actually set up your task template with HTML to add that image to your post

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