Content Crooner

There is now a job opening for an Operations Specialist which entails reviewing the content authors send us before it is distributed, customer service, and daily operations. Apart from that, a good portion of your time will be your own.

If you leave us a message in our customer service system, we’ll add a free week to your current subscription.

As a part of the sweeping transformations coming to Content Crooner, we’ll soon be offering live support. From Monday – Friday, 9 am – 5 pm Central Time each day, you’ll be able to chat with a live representative about anything you wish.

Part of being Clear and Honest is knowing how much one can reasonably do. So I started prioritizing what I agreed to do, what I actually had time for, and what jobs were the most important.

Some worry that this will kill article marketing. It’s quite the contrary. This is REFINING article marketing. Writing relevant content is all about intent. If one intends to manipulate search engines when writing an article, that article is no longer useful. Readers can smell the odor of bad intent.

We usually perceive a communication as a ping-pong match of back and forth banter. You make a statement to which another person poses a question and eventually each party comes to an understanding of what the other person is trying to say. Most of the time, however, the other party is not on the other side of the table ready to ask for clarification at the first sign of confusion.

When writing, think of yourself in a foreign country. Pare your thoughts down to the essentials of communication, and make each word count.

Now that we have officially hit the trail in search of a new path through the complex carnival that is our lives what do we do? Pull out the Blackberry and try to respond to the 100 e-mails flagged in our inbox that really, really need answering, like yesterday?  Of course, we also need to call around and shop for suppliers, and then finish that lagging order that ...

All journeys start at the beginning. While this proverbial trope may sound like it was copied from a positive-thinking poster tacked on the wall of the lunchroom, it is essentially true. A much wiser scribe and heady behemoth of eastern spiritually, Lao Tzu, codified the sentiment into the literary lexicon in much more poetic terms. He mused, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

Whether you are a brick-and-mortar store or work solely on the wonderful world wide web, if you’re not networking then your business is slowly dying. Networking helps keep the blood flowing through your business. Here are a few networking tips for on and off the Internet to generate leads and improve sales—put them into action today!