This post is part of a weekly series, Fetching Friday, featuring the best posts of the week in blogging, business, freelancing, SEO, and social media on kikolani.com.
The Resources Mashup
Here are some of the best articles I have seen on Google+, retweeted on @kikolani, and read in RSS subscriptions this week. Also, if you’re preparing to go to PubCon this month, be sure to get business cards and print brochures online in enough time to get them shipped to you!
Blogging / Content
- 50 Essential Tools I Use For Blogging and Freelance Writing – As a freelance writer and professional blogger, it is essential to have a reliable arsenal of tools that allow you to promote your blog and manage your business. Here are 50 to help you with marketing, social media, promotion, productivity, and financial management.
- Why Big Content Is Worth the Risk – I’m obsessed with “Big Content” lately – resources that go beyond our narrow bins of blog posts, videos, and infographics. I’m going to show you how that obsession is paying off, and why building real content is easier than you think.
- Using Breaking News as a Creative Advantage – You’re likely unexpectedly bumping into killer ideas every day when you catch up on your news, favorite blogs, or other media. Learning to cultivate and research your daily media intake is a great method for brainstorming.
- The WordPress Website Owner’s Emergency Checklist – Free download: An easy way to keep all of your important site information in a single, handy spot.
- 10 Words Every Successful Blogger Needs to Know – Here are ten essential words you should consider constantly as a blogger, as they reflect the values you need in order to succeed.
Business / Career
- Why Starting A Business Can Be A Lonely Path And What You Can Do About It – The hardest part about running our online store was overcoming the loneliness of the entire process.
- The 10 Secrets That Make Networking Easy, Fun and Ridiculously Effective – After ten years of being an entrepreneur, I’ve learned a thing or two about networking… One of the most important things I learned is that networking is a lifestyle. It needs to be worked into your DNA so that you are networking at all times…effortlessly and happily.
- Author Rank: Dominate The Search Engines And Become An Authority In Your Niche – Google’s idea of Author Rank will encourage content creators a lot. If you’re a creator of awesome content, you can “claim” all of your content over the internet to be yours.
- Don’t Panic – Email Marketing is Alive and Well [Infographic] – Email marketing isn’t going anywhere, well, except to a landing page. Every CTA in your email needs to go to a targeted landing page matching it.
- 7 Reasons Why Blogging is Failing to Generate Leads For So Many Marketing Agencies – A surprising number of marketing/agency blogs fail to generate business for marketers. So the question is why??
Freelancing
- How I Repeatedly Get High Paying Freelance Writing Clients Without Sending a Single Pitch – I’ve worked with over 10 clients in the past 2 years that all came to me on their own; I’m currently working with 6, and not only do I believe that you can build a solid freelance writing career without sending out pitches. I also believe it is the best way to go about it.
- 8 Practical Ways New, Inexperienced Freelance Writers Can Get Clients – Finding it difficult to get clients? Here are 8 practical ways to go about it!
- 5 Pricing Tips to Earn More on Client Projects – Bundling your price and giving discounts the right way are two of the tips discussed in this article about pricing techniques for project work.
- 10 Quick Tips to Improve Your Invoicing – Here are some tips for how to make getting paid a little less painful.
- How to Handle Price Objections – A solution to get those complainers over the fact that you have a price that is “high” and get them to not only accept your high price points, but also feel good about handing over their money to you.
Search Engines / SEO
- A Crystal Clear Explanation of How Social Media Influences SEO – How social context is playing a role in SEO and how marketers can adjust their strategies to match the changing character of search.
- 9 Google Analytics Advanced Segments You Can’t Live Without – Advanced segments basically function as filters. They allow you to focus on specific types of traffic for deeper analysis. GA comes with a bunch of default segments built in, you can access them by clicking the Advanced Segments button on any of the standard reports.
- The Exact Match Domain Playbook: A Guide and Best Practices for EMDs – Learn about the types of EMD’s, best practices, pros and cons of an EMD, and the real issue with them.
- Keyword Research In 15 Minutes Or Less – Keyword research is an essential task for a search related campaign. But often there is far too much effort placed into the process without sufficient return.
- Google’s Knowledge Graph: Implications for Search & SEO – The Knowledge Graph is not only transforming Google but it is paving the way to transform the approach towards SEO. Here are five metrics to help you judge your web presence and four factors to consider when creating and sharing content.
Social Media / Social Networking
- How to Better Manage Your Twitter Relationships – Discover how this Twitter management tool can quickly and effectively help you build an engaged community of influencers and brand advocates.
- Ultimate Social Media Party Foul List – 70 Party Fouls of the Social Foolish – We have all seen them or done them. The social media party fouls. We wish people followed the norm for social media engagement and building of relationships.
- Platform Counts! The Differences between Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn Writing – Even though Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter tend to get lumped into the same general category of marketing, they are actually quite different.
- All About Reddit – In this webinine, or short form webinar lasting around nine minutes, we explore Reddit, a social news sharing site with a loyal community and growing following.
- New LinkedIn Company Pages Are Finally Rolled Out to EVERYONE – Take a look at examples of the new LinkedIn Company Page design, and learn how to set up your own.
Online Baby Shower Update
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Kikolani covers blog marketing and blogging tips for personal, professional, and business bloggers to succeed in search and social media marketing. Kristi Hines is a 
Wonderful source of information yet again Kristi!
Always love to come each Friday and get everything under the sun right here.
The weekend is what really makes up for the reading I otherwise loose out on during the week.
Thanks for sharing.
Harleena Singh just posted Does a Painful Breast Indicate Breast Cancer (dofollow)
Thanks Harleena! Glad to give you some good content for the weekends.
i liked ” WordPress Blog Owners Emergencey Check List ” , and few other links which is acutally helping me for my blogging job .
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Krisiti
“Why Starting A Business Can Be A Lonely Path And What You Can Do About It” I enjoyed reading this article, starting a business is hard and lonely but I did it. Most of the time you will have alot of naysayers and negative energy trying to hold you back.
Kenny Fabre just posted Local Affiliate Marketing Lesson (dofollow)
Glad you enjoyed that one Kenny! Yes, there are lots of naysayers, but sometimes they’re just jealous they are not brave enough to do what you are doing.
Always love these and look forward to these! The lists on Career, and Freelancing seem particularly interesting this week, and should make for some good late-night reading over the weekend on the iPad. Cheers Kristi!
Mike Dawson just posted Pointers for Choosing a Good Domain Name (and Where to Register One) (dofollow)
Thanks Mike! Hope you enjoy your weekend reading!
Always enjoy your Fridays thing – until now – “50 Essential Tools I Use For Blogging and Freelance Writing ” is a hint at what netizens will soon be facing as the “cloud” takes over: we’ll see screens like the one that appears, blocking the way to the content you have recommended.
I have blogged just a little about this phenomenon, but you can bet I will update and expand the post – this is the SECOND roadblock on the internet I’ve come across in the last 5 minutes! (the first was something interesting called “pocket” which is also discriminates against certain browsers)…
You and your readers may not realize what’s happening. This reminds me of way way back when I was still using Windows95 on dial-up: MSNBC offered news update videos that I could easily watch on my pc – quality excellent – but in time they made the files impossible for Win95 to read and display – and they did it purposely – the same thing is going on here! You don’t have to be in a thrid-world country to run into censorship!
Dave Lucas just posted I find this “upgrade your browser” crap disturbing… (dofollow)
Sorry to hear that Dave, but I just went to look at your post and I’m not sure what the issue is. I’ve run into lots of websites – regular websites, not services – where they say they don’t support a particular browser or the browser’s security, java, etc. is out of date and needs to be upgraded. Never ran into it with Gmail but I usually update my browsers pretty frequently so that doesn’t happen. In general, if you’re not updating your browser, you’re missing out on the latest security features and leaving yourself more vulnerable to viruses. I worked in IT support and the people who always ended up with viruses were the ones who didn’t update their browsers, OS, and/or anti-virus software.
Also, I’m not sure how not being able to playback video equals censorship – I run into that every day with my iPad. It’s not censorship – it’s whoever places the videos on the site doesn’t choose to make them compatible for everyone. There are plenty of videos that do playback on any device I’m using and some that only work on my desktop – I always think of that as more to do with laziness on the web developer’s end than deliberately trying to censor something. Censorship is when a whole country blocks your ability to get onto a website because of the news you might read, or a government comes to find you because you wrote something bad about them on a public domain.
Thanks so much for including my link Kristi
It is always great to pop in to your mashup coz I find a handful of great links to explore.
Thanks again!
Jane just posted Author Rank: Dominate The Search Engines And Become An Authority In Your Niche (dofollow)
You’re welcome Jane!
Thanks for another fantastic mash-up. It must take some time to do but is always appreciated!
Garrett just posted Trading with Range Bars – What They Are and Why You Should Be Using Them (dofollow)
Wow Kristi,
I haven’t gotten through them all, but I did enjoy the SEO resources, especially the post on ‘How Social Media Influences SEO’.
With all the Google updates and algorithm changes, I’ve been focusing quite a bit on that lately. I know social media is playing a role in SEO but I don’t quite have my finger on how to most effectively use it just yet, but it’s definitely a good topic for discussion.
Thanks for the great reading
Liz
Liz McGee just posted Blog Post Checklist for Publishing and Sharing (dofollow)
Thanks for the amazing list once again. I enjoyed the post on newsworthy blogging.
Robert Koenig just posted High Gas Prices Got You Down? (dofollow)
Hey Kristi,
Great resources, as always. I especially enjoyed all the SEO resources, so thanks for sharing this fantastic list.
Have a great weekend, Kristi.
Dev just posted Awesome Tools for Bloggers (dofollow)
Hi Kristi
Thank you for another great list of resources. I have just checked out Commun.it to get more knowledge about my Twitter followers. So far it is looking very promising.
Thomas just posted My Google Analytics Stats Report for Q3 2012 (dofollow)
You have created a club for a chance to feature your article?
Sweet!
Finally a way to have your article listed on the epic, Kikolani.com site
As always, you bring your best with this Fetching Friday
Samuel just posted How To Promote Your Blog! (dofollow)
Thanks Kristi for sharing these list and your article is very informative. I really enjoy reading your article and I learned a lot.
Alden just posted Web Video Production: Our work for Dr. James Michaels, Oconomowoc Dentist (dofollow)
It is so nice to visit your page Kristi! I learned a lot and one of my favorite links that you shared about “Blogging/content and Business/Career” I will continue reading some of the links that you given and I am sure it can help me a lot especially about Blogging.
Luis just posted Designing a Readable Yearbook Layout for Elementary Pupils (dofollow)
Thanks Kristi for sharing these wonderful and very helpful resources. I really enjoy and love reading your post and I am not really good in blogging and I just started doing my blog and It could help me a lot.
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Nice post Kristi and I read some of the links that you given about Blogging and you shared a very informative post that people could help especially those who are new in blogging.
Andrea just posted Making Your Budget Stretch During Your Home Repair And Remodeling Project (dofollow)
These are awesome resources Kristi! There’s definitely a little bit of something for everyone.
I look forward to reading your fetching Friday gems. Thanks Kristi!
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Nice Kristi,
Another Good post in this weekly series, All link are good enough to read and get knowledge, I share this post with my friends and they all like this post and thanks me for sharing.
Thanks for such a nice post.
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