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Best of Preston: Building a Twitter Following

This sleepy week between Christmas and New Year’s, I’m sharing some of my best blog posts from the last year. On Monday I shared tips for getting folks to comment on your blog. Tuesday I discussed commissions and yesterday I tackled rejection. And now I want to revisit my Twitter tips! Today’s post is for [...]

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Best of Preston: The Importance of Comments

This sleepy week between Christmas and New Year’s, I’ll be sharing some of my best blog posts from the last year. Today, to get things rolling, I’m sharing tips for getting folks to comment on your blog. Have commenting tips of your own? Please share ‘em in the comments’ section! No, this isn’t an Apple [...]

Posted in blog, Tips, Uncategorized | Tagged Advice, blog comments, business, increasing blog comments, learning lessons, preston blog, social media | 25 Comments

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RECOMMENDATIONS IN THE WEDDING AND EVENT PLANNING INDUSTRY

(Image via sara_kate) Our industry, like many industries, survives on recommendations; for better or worse, we simply can’t live without them. And I like to think that when I’m recommended for a job it’s because of the high quality of my work and my professional manner. However, there are recommendation tactics in our industry that [...]

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Reasons to Follow People Online

There is so much information and people online that sometimes you have to sit back and remind yourself what it’s all for. I was looking at my Twitter follow list and became inspired to write this post. To be clear, following folks doesn’t have to be just about Twitter but also about “following” people by [...]

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How A Good User Experience on the Web is Similar to a Great Client Meeting

You don’t ever want your client or web user to feel like this. (Image via) After a client meeting the other day, a light bulb went off in my head. I realized how similar the act of a good user experience on a website is to having a good first meeting with the client. The [...]

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Does your website truly reflect your brand’s personality? A checklist.

(Image via) Today, I’d like to talk about content–choosing the appropriate and unique content that helps your website truly reflect your personality or your brand’s personality. We thought about this a lot when re-designing my new website. We wanted it to reflect the multiple and varied aspects of my business, while of course also staying [...]

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The Importance of Google Alerts

Okay, I’ll admit it. I Google myself. A lot. Come on… who doesn’t? It extends beyond ego, though. It’s about understanding what type of information is out there that’s tied to your name, and most importantly your business. While the web is a great place full of generous, interesting people, it’s also rampant with trolls [...]

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Things Look Different Around Here…

If you’re reading this in an RSS reader, or on your phone, quick, click prestonbailey.com and see how different the new site looks! I am so proud to say that the site re-design we’ve been working on for the past six months is finally up and running. You’ll see that we’ve changed A LOT. I’ll [...]

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How often should you redesign your website?

(Photo via) This is a really good question. And to risk sounding evasive, I’d have to say: it depends on your business. I think a general good rule of thumb is at least once a year, but with some businesses this could be more or this could be less. Here are the questions I ask [...]

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What’s the difference between a Facebook profile and a Facebook page?

I had someone ask me this recently, so I thought it would be a great idea to talk about it on the blog. Basically, a Facebook profile is mainly used for personal connections (keeping in touch with your friends, family, etc.) and a Facebook page is used for your business’ “face” on Facebook. Both are [...]

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What are the top 5 things you need to make a good headline?

(Photo via) Just like when I’m a designing a room and want to create something that makes a guest say, “Wow, I want to see more,” I try do the same with the headlines on my blog posts. Headlines on the web are tricky, though, because they have to both be utilitarian (i.e. being SEO–search [...]

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Using Google Analytics for Editorial Planning

Last week we talked about the importance of comments and I loved hearing from the folks who read this blog all the time but rarely comment. It was great to see all your blogs and get a peek into what you do everyday. Thanks for sharing. This week, I want to address Google Analytics. For [...]

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The Importance of Comments

<p style=”text-align: center;”No, this isn’t an Apple commercial…Here’s me in my office with all my important gadgets: iPad, Macbook and iPhone (and lunch!). I have a secret to admit: I am obsessed with my blog comments. I remember when I first started blogging in 2007, and we were still on the old blogspot blog, I used [...]

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Six Tips for Creating a High End Website

This is an interesting conundrum–you want to create a high-end website for a platform (the Internet) that is inherently mass market (when anyone and everyone can get to your URL, that’s as mass as you can get, right?). Well, here’s the thing. Within the millions of pieces of content out there, lives tiny niches that [...]

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Frequently Asked Questions: I want to start writing a blog, but I don’t know how. Help!

(Photo via) This is a great question, and something that’s dear to me because I wondered the same thing (as I’m sure many of us did) when I first started this blog. So many people were out there telling me, “You have to start a blog,” but when I finally did there was no one [...]

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Finding People to Follow on Twitter (and Building your own Followers)

In my last post about Social Media, I asked you if you were tweeting yet. Today’s post is for all those folks who have started a twitter account and are now thinking, “What next?” Well, you have some simple goals ahead of you: find interesting and relevant people to follow while also building your own [...]

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