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Uploading videos to so many places can be an undertaking. There are two great tools to upload this content. Tubemogul and Traffic Geyser. While Traffic Geyser offers far more features, if you are in need of a free video uploading tool for more than one month, check out Tubemogul. While not as full featured, it does offer the ability to bulk upload and measure statistics on your videos.

Learn how to use Tubemogul here:

These are questions I hear all the time. Once I found my unique voice, my passion for what I wanted to share… the task became fun and easy to do.

Blogs enable anyone to be heard. There have been several bloggers that have become very successful due to the quality and content of their blogs. Most of these bloggers also have a personality that shines through in their writing. Some of them are tech experts, some of them are political pundits and some of them are humor writers.

Whatever niche you’re trying to carve out, you’ll want to make sure the blog sounds original and that your personality is apparent in everything that you write, even if the blog isn’t about you.

Tech experts offer some of the best examples of good web writing. Their blogs come in all different levels. There are blogs for people who want to know how to perform user-level tasks and there are blogs that explain how to modify your operating system at the most fundamental levels. These writers usually garner an audience by speaking to their visitors in a unique voice. This may flow from their use of language, from their experience or from their choice in subject matter. You should cultivate your strengths when developing the tone of your blog.

Your voice should reflect who you really are. There are quite a few blogs on the Internet written by people who sound as if they simply want to be successful bloggers. The truly successful bloggers sound like writers who have something to say. Their subjects are focused, but they manage to interject their own personality into all their posts. As a guideline, humor is one of the hardest things to write. If you’re just starting out, it’s better to be a bit reserved in regard to making jokes. Some people find them distracting and that can take away from your content.

The truly successful bloggers tend to be very solid experts in their fields. From there, they’re able to establish their voice in terms of what they bring to that field. If you’re writing a blog about a particular field, including a lot of objective information will tend to give you an expert voice. Being very on-topic will also help with this. If you’re more casual in your blogging habits, you can spice up posts with pictures and video, which can make people take a greater interest in your posts. In any case, be sure to be yourself and you’ll find that your writing comes much more naturally.

Would love for you to share your comments below… so please let us hear your unique voice.

~Kimberly

Above is a video that our very own Courtney Engle created… “Have you wanted to backup your Facebook files, your Gmail contacts, or your Twitter posts? Check out Backupify to automatically connect to all these services.”

I found the below article while doing some research on the service and thought I’d share it, along with some other helpful links about Backupify and how to back up your social sites.

~Kimberly

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The battle for the cloud computing market, between Google and Microsoft, is heating up fast. Yesterday, Microsoft announced their new suite of Office Products and began to take pre-orders, for Office 2010. Microsoft will make their Office Web Apps available on June 15, 2010. That is also the date for stores to start selling the Office 2010 products. A battle of who will reign in the cloud SaaS market, for business and other applications continues to be waged. Microsoft has raised the stakes with the recent announcements, of their cloud based offerings.

Google has been out in front, trying to move customers to their Google Apps platform. Their premise of using Google’s servers and software, at a per user cost less than Microsoft’s, is a sound one. Google has been having success in both the educational and enterprise markets. One of the big obstacles for Google is the installed user base that Microsoft holds. Some estimate it at over 80 percent of the desktop market. The large number of Microsoft resellers and consultants give the people at Microsoft, another advantage.

Regardless of which cloud computing platform you choose, disaster comes without warning, so if you have lucked out so far, don’t delay any longer. The key to successful use of cloud computing is availability. Having a plan for when delays or outages occur is very important. You can backup email offline in Gmail, Hotmail and other web based email programs, for free. If you want to store your backups on cloud based server services there are some free ones. The storage amount given is not large, but good enough for important emails and other files. You can always buy more storage if needed.

One service that has garnered good reviews is Backupify. Backupify will back up your online accounts with services like Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, and more. Right now you can get an account with 2GB of storage for free. Prices go up from there. You can visit their website at Backify.com for current pricing.

Another choice that has been popular for offline backup is Dropbox. Dropbox also offers 2GB of storage for free. Dropbox customers can sync files of any type and size, share files, access via a web connection on your computer or mobile device, and schedule automatic backups. Paid versions are also available.

The next few months, and remainder of this year, will be an interesting for Google and Microsoft. Consumers need to do their own research. Cost benefits and reliability are key. Regardless of the outcome, have a solid disaster recovery plan of your own. Did I say backup?

Greg Doig is owner of StratusClick Consulting. Visit him at StratusClick.com

Article Source: EzineArticles.com

You can also check out Backupify’s blog here: Backupify, Secure Your Online Life

Beyond concentrating on keywords and trying to get a specific density of those words on your page, writing in an SEO-friendly way helps you to stay focused on your topic. If you do it correctly, rather than writing a blog that reads like a bad attempt to use the same phrases over and over, you’ll end up with an entertaining, useful entry that will keep people interested and that the search engines will recognize as a legitimate resource that deserves indexing.

Your first step will not be writing. You’ll need to do some research to find out what keywords are best-suited to your blog. Remember that it’s better to be specific. As an example, if you were writing a blog about pet care, you’d be hard pressed to compete for that generic term. You’ll do better to pick a more specific term, such as “dog grooming”. In this example, you’d have to be even more specific to make the keyword useful, due to competition. To make it even more useful, you may choose something like “big dog grooming”. This significantly narrows down the competition.

You’ll need to include various permutations (different versions combinations) of that keyword phrase, as well. For example, you may include “dog groomer”, “dog groomers” and so forth. You can work these terms naturally into your content, which makes the article easier to read. It also doesn’t waste your reader’s time by serving them unintelligible, keyword-stuffed articles.

When you get good articles on your blog, remember to link them! Search engines look very favorably on sites that allow readers to actually surf the Internet, and linking to quality content—“quality” being the important word—will reflect well on your site.

You’ll need to submit your site for indexing to make sure that the search engines find it. You’ll also want to make sure that your keywords are included in the title of your site, the headings of the articles that apply and in your meta-tags.

Search engines will find you by your content, after a time, but submitting to the largest search engines is the best way to get ahead of the game. Most importantly, never try to “trick” a search engine by including keywords that don’t apply to your site; you’ll be removed from the indexes for good.

These are just a few SEO tips to make your blog search engine friendly. Remember, writing a SEO optimized blog post will help increase your chances of landing on the first page of the results when your potential prospect, or visitor, is searching for your specific keyword or keyword phrase.

Here are “10 Ways to Optimize Your Blog for Search” that I found while researching writing Search Engine Optimization friendly for your blog.

As always, please share your comments below. We’d love to hear from you.

~Kimberly

Gary Vaynerchuk’s book CRUSH IT is a MUST read… at least twice. Within the first chapter I became so excited that immediately I was drawn back into KNOWING that my passion is EXACTLY what was going to help me crush it this year AND help others crush it too.

FUNNY PART about this post… I did this video before I launched my new website (which is where you are NOW … and look at where this lead me! Coincidence or Destiny?

I agree with Gary Vee, “Your relationships build your business!” In the world of social media… it’s all about relationship marketing to attract your ideal clients to you.

And if you truly want to be uber successful at what you do, then its also important to live your life with passion and purpose while joyfully making more money doing what you LOVE best and going…

Where Your Passion Leads!

It is all in the connections you make and those whom you interact with socially online that can ultimately help you grow your online business exponentially.

The most powerful and effective way of marketing your business today… SOCIAL MEDIA! Your social media marketing efforts are what will help you build and connect with your target audience through this powerful way of relationship marketing. Gone are the old ways of marketing!

Now, you don’t have to be perfect to bring what you have to offer to other people, but you DO have to make valuable connections to grow your “tribe”… people who are attracted to you because you have something of value to offer them. A solution to a particular problem they face.

It’s time to get back your MOJO and turn chaos and disorganization into smooth flowing systems which allow you to follow your passion and work with you, what you are coded for, instead of you desperately trying to grasp and hang on to doing something you don’t enJOY that just pays the bills and doesn’t help you make progress in your life TOWARD living YOUR PASSION and sharing that passion with the world!

You are here because you have a special gift, talent… or knowledge that will help someone else.

This is how I discovered what I was meant to do… by realizing how I could solve a particular problem for someone else.

Your ideal client IS a mirror image of you. They want what you want.

For me, I realized how important it was to me to build my own website… myself. I didn’t want to pay someone to do it for me. I wanted to know how to do it myself so I could make changes, updates and manage it without being help prisoner to anyone else!

And that’s when it hit me. I had spent literally thousands of hours and a ton of money learning how to build my own website, how to use social media, video, audio… and so I decided to share that knowledge with those who had the same interests as me!

My ideal client… wanted what I was passionate about… how to build their own website so they could be in control of their business and ultimately their own success.

And so I connected with my partner and together we created the WordPress Website Workshop.

We teach you everything you need to know about setting up your very own website in simple, easy to follow steps… and no prior experience necessary! Everything you need to know about our WordPress Training and Products can be found here on our site.

Our WordPress Website Workshop starts with helping you create a blog or website and then helping you learn everything you need to know about how to create, update and manage your website YOURSELF!

No more being held hostage to a webmaster or paying a king’s ransom to one either.

We want to help you create a highly successful and PASSIONATE website that will grow year after year, so we also bring in Social Media, Internet Marketing, and Business Building experts to help you develop the types of relationships Gary talks about in his book.

RELATIONSHIP MARKETING… connecting with your ideal client doing something you are truly passionate about. That’s how you WILL… CRUSH IT!

Looking forward to helping you crush it! Thanks Gary Vee… your book ROCKS!

~Kimberly Bohannon

Apture is a FREE service that helps keep visitors on your WordPress Website or Blog. It is a great way to engage your audience without them leaving your page.

A great social media tool to share your message.

In this video I show you how to install this feature on your WordPress Website or Blog. Please check out their website for more detailed information by clicking on the banner below. No I am not an affiliate… just spreading the word!

Enjoy… and please leave your comments below.

For more tips like this, be sure to sign up here for our upcoming WordPress Case Study Webinars and the Replays on how to use WordPress so you can update, manage and BE in control of your website without being help hostage to a webmaster.

Learn more about Apture here…

Looking forward to connecting with you,
~Kimberly

In order to transfer your domain name from one registrar over to another, first you have to set things up on the registrar where the domain is currently hosted in the Domain Manager. In this case Godaddy.

Make sure the administrative contact information is correct. If you want to transfer this domain right away and the admin info is at an active email address, then do not make any changes to it or you will have to wait 60 days before you can transfer that domain.

In the above video, I will show you How to Transfer a Domain From GoDaddy to Bluehost, how to unlock the domain, have Godaddy send you the authorization code by email, go in to your BH Control Panel and choose Transfer Domain, and then walk you through the steps to complete the transfer.