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Women Who Rock – Using Online Video in Business

“This is the year of video!” Have many years have we heard that proclamation? I created my first online videos in 2005. They were terrible. And, I just kept at it. I won’t say my videos are great now, and for many purposes, that’s OK since the range of video options has grown to the point that video can be created from easily in the moment to being professionally produced.

Recently my good friend and colleague Lou Bortone asked if he could interview me for his series, Women Who Rock, to discuss how successful women business owners use online video in their businesses. [Read more…]

Repurposing Your Content – 13 Ways to Reach More People

By Denise Wakeman 4 Comments

Repurposing Your Content - 13 Ways to Reach More People You have an editorial calendar and you publish articles on your blog consistently on a regular schedule. Check.

Your blog has beautiful social sharing buttons that you can customize and as soon as you publish, you share your blog posts to all your social networks. Check.

You use a social media management tool like Buffer, Hootsuite, CoSchedule, Missinglettr or Social Bee to queue up and reshare your evergreen articles on social networks a few weeks and months later, to help increase the number of people who see the content. Check.

Maybe you even go so far as reviewing and refreshing older content to bring it up to date and then reshare it again. Double check.

Now what? [Read more…]

Why I Moved My Private Mastermind Off of Facebook Groups

By Denise Wakeman 11 Comments

I moved my private mastermind off of Facebook groups. It had nothing to do with the Cambridge Analytica scandal or the fact that Facebook has been mining and storing our data for years.

Let me back up … for a long while, I’ve been contemplating how to streamline my offers in such a way that I could serve more authors and online business owners while also creating more room for me to take off on an adventure when time and space permitted. [Read more…]

How to Get Your Business Seen with Online Content

By Denise Wakeman 4 Comments

In a recent interview on the Thriving Launch podcast, I addressed themes that will be familiar to you if you’re a regular reader of this blog…how to get seen with your online content.

I talked about how to grow your following through adding value to your content and how having value and being clear on your message helps leverage your online presence. [Read more…]

How To Repurpose Your Content Without Running into Duplicate Content Issues

By Ann Smarty 3 Comments

Let’s get one thing straight: There’s no such a thing as a duplicate content penalty which existence would confirm any Google representative. There are two possible issues associated with non-original content:

The removal of a search result based on a DMCA notice. Google is said to be receiving around 75 million DMCA-related takedown requests, so this issue is bigger than you may think. The good thing is that this option of filing a DMCA notice with Google is a way to fight content scrapers who steal your content, so it’s a useful option to have.
The loss of rankings due to the fact that there is a web page that has the same (or almost the same) content as yours, so Google decided to rank that page for the sake of variety. For the obvious reasons, Google wants to show people varied search results, so they have to choose one result out of many copies. It’s hardly a penalty, but it’s not a pleasant thing to deal with: Having to compete in search with yourself.

When you want to syndicate your content on a popular blog for the sake of authority building and referral traffic, that is the risk you are running into: You may one day find that syndicated content over ranks yours. [Read more…]