Are you Blogging Hard or Blogging Smart?

This is a guest post by Mohd Aktar from web designers Taiwan.

We’re often advised that hard work will get us ahead. That’s correct to a certain extent – Working too hard can have a very negative impact on you, as well.

Long hours and the strain to keep doing much more can result in anxiety, depression, burn out.

Rather than just working hard and getting into a lot of hours, why don’t you try to find ways to work smart?

Why?

Simply because smart work indicates you’re prone to get to your goals.

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Personal Branding for Bloggers: 5 Tips for Making It Real

This is a guest post by Sharyn Sheldon from BusinessContentPLR.com

Have you become wrapped up in the personal branding quest? Between social media consultants, life coaches, marketing experts, and other blogging gurus; creating your own personal brand can sound like a complicated exercise.

Among other things, you’ll need to discover what really matters to you and your target audience, where you provide unique value, and how you want to be perceived.

While the process of putting together your total personal brand “package” sounds daunting, it’s far easier to communicate to the world than you think. It’s not as if you’re creating a product from scratch. You already exist!

One of the things that all your consultants might forget to tell you is that the real you is what matters most in building credibility. As soon as you start trying to market an artificial personal brand, people will see right through it and you’ll lose the trust you were striving for in the first place. And we’re not just talking about bloggers here. These principles apply to everyone.

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8 Social Media Signs Marketers Should Pay Attention to…

This is a guest post by Sameer Panjwani from DirectoryMaximizer.com.

Social media can give a very accurate view of what people think of your brand. How your brand is perceived is nothing more than the collective opinion of your target market.

That’s why it’s so important to constantly watch social media and what people are saying about you.

It’ll tell you everything you need to know about whether or not people like your brand and your products and how you’re doing in comparison to your competitors.

These are the 8 most common types of messages that consumers will project in the social sphere.

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How I Built And Lost A Monthly Income Of $3000 And How I Will Rebuild It Again

This is a guest post by Stefan Nilsson. Visit his blog at www.stefannilsson.com

I had it all. Just a few weeks ago I was making $3000 a month by publishing one post a week until a simple mistake caught up with me resulting in me losing everything. More on the mistake later on and how you can avoid doing the same thing – but first I’ll share how I single-handedly went from nothing to making $3000 a month within a single year and how I’m certain that I’ll be able to do it all over again with my new blog on personal development.

This might seem like a wall of text for some of you but I highly recommend that you bookmark it so you can return later.

In this guest post you will find everything you need to know to succeed with making money online and some of the information might not seem interesting right now, but as you progress and reach a new level you’ll be able to use it in a whole new way. If nothing else, it will be a terrific reminder of how you can succeed by doing less.

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7 Out of the Box Link Building Strategies In 2012

This is a guest post by Divya Rawat from Inetzeal.com.

The second quarter of 2012 is already well on its way. With Google topping all SEO news charts, one can safely predict that there are going to be dynamic changes in the industry.

Experts are predicting a major shift of focus from just Link Building to brand link building strategies. Viral Content and Social Media are also on the search engines’ radar.

Change is a harbinger of a new world order; this is true for all SEO campaigns. The perception that SEO is all about link building will not stand in good stead, just as it did not previously. All webmasters will have to pull up their socks as the latest updates by the leading search engine Google in its algorithms are going to affect the rankings, drastically.

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