For project management, brainstorming, and collaboration, my favorite tool of all time is Trello. Trello is a virtual bulletin board, where you create drag-and-drop lists populated with cards. Every card can have labels, assigned members, checklists, comments, file attachments, and more. Every list lets you drag and drop the cards, allowing you to arrange your [...]
I looked around, surprised at the sudden silence: I had a moment to write. It was a Saturday. The kids were getting into the car with my wife, and I had an hour to myself, alone with my laptop. A few years ago, I would have spent the first ten minutes preparing to write. Instead, [...]
I post on a lot of different blogs every month. If you want to see where else I'm writing, here is a sample from January. The Ace of Sales blog Top 4 Time Savers for Social Media - I review my favorite 4 time-saving tools in social media. (I manage more than 50 social [...]
One of the biggest difficulties in maintaining a blog presence is the output of regular content. There are three ways to fill up your RSS feed and keep your readers engaged: Publish multiple authors on your blog Hire a ghostwriter to write your posts for you Schedule future posts and do all of your writing [...]
If you are going to make content marketing a regular part of what you do, you need to set a blogging schedule (and stick to it). A blogging calendar can be a digital calendar, an excel spreadsheet, a physical paper calendar, or a series of post-it notes on your dry erase board. Whatever medium you [...]