It’s all about the dash – In between life and death.

Are you making a difference with your life?

What does your dash (example: 1949-2009) look like?
Are you waiting for life to happen or are you making a
difference along the way?

Guest post by Debbie Zimmerman – Co-Founder of The 100 Women Project

Making A Difference -SocialNetBlogger.com The “dash” is what separates your birth date and the day you die.
It’s all about the dash. What does your dash look like? Are you waiting for life to happen or are you making a difference along the way? Here are ten tips/suggestions to help your dash be meaningful, impactful and full.

4 of 10 tips:

Be proactive. Stop waiting for others to do something and take action.
Set goals and take action steps to reach them. Small steps each day will get you where you want to go. Set new goals every 6 months.
Practice random acts of kindness. Be compassionate and kind.
Volunteer and give to others. Whether you are donating time or money, the impact is the same. Making a difference in this world is priceless.

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7 Proven LinkedIn Group Strategies That Actually Get Results!

LinkedIn Groups are Dynamic Marketing Tools for B to B Small Businesses

by KarenTeeters

If your small business is involved in business to business marketing and you haven't started using the power of LinkedIn groups, why not?

Let me give you a quick idea of how dynamic these groups can be. A few weeks ago for my local MeetUp group that I run, Business Blogging and Online Marketers, I posted the meeting to all my local Linkedin groups with the enticing title of my topic of How Do I Get All These Blog Topic Ideas?

I added the link to my MeetUp page for people to RSVP and guess what? I had a record number of people at the next meeting! The number doubled as a matter of fact. When I asked for a raise of hands as to who found out about the meeting from LinkedIn, fully half of the people attending raised their hands!

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Business Bloggers as Professional Writers, Not Really a Novel Concept

Ready, Set, Write. It's the only way blogging works for you

By Karen Teeters

examine your blogging intentions

It's always a good time to reexamine your goals, and intentions when it comes to your business blog writing. I bet you put together an amazing list of goals at the beginning of this year to get better results with your business blog. And here you are further along in the year and not everything is happening the way you planned. Right?

stuff gets in the way of writing

Don't worry. You are in good company, myself included. But it is not time to despair and make yourself wrong. Last week crazy business stuff happened and you did not write the two blog posts you said you would write. You did not follow the ideas in your editorial calendar. You did write a few paragraphs of something that came to you. But you never finished it 'cause stuff got in the way. Yes, those last few sentences are semi-autobiographical for me too, I confess.

stay committed to your blog writing

It's like your new eating plans or new intention plans. Just because you fall off the wagon does not give you an excuse to uncommit to your new plans. I have been reading a lot about what it takes to be a writer recently. And if you have committed to your business blog plans, you have committed to being a writer. So what do the best, professional writers do? Continue reading →

Biz Blog Tips & Tricks: Adding YouTube Videos Is Fall Off A Log Easy!

Make Your WordPress Blog or Website
Fun with YouTube Videos and They Will Come

by K. Scott Teeters

Remember the line from the movie, “Field of Dreams” that goes, “If you build it, they will come.”? (you have to whisper that line to really get it) Well, a while ago when I was researching other car blogs to see what the other car bloggers were up to, I noticed a pattern. Some were pages and pages of text and information, which is good, but after a few dozen pages, gets a little old. And then others had lots of variety – pictures, slide shows, videos – you know “fun stuff.”

Then… I heard a voice. A quiet voice. Almost a whisper. And it said, “Make it fun, and they will come.” It made sense to me because I had keyed into about 4 car blog sites that I kept visiting because they’re FUN. Hey, if I want to read dry material, I’ll go to the Wall Street Journal. So I came up with a short list of fun things to add to my car blog to, well, make it FUN. This short post will address how to add YouTube videos to your WordPress blog pages.

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