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12/03/2010

8 ways sex could help you survive a zombie outbreak

Filed under: Telling stories — Tags: , — proseotalk @ 7:53 pm

Yeah, really!

  1. If you’re doing it indoors, chances are the zombies will just pass right on by …
  2. Zombies don’t attack gays, so if your sex preference happens to be for the same gender, then you are probably cool
  3. Alternatively, if you have sex with a Zombie, odds are he or she won’t kill you – as long as the sex is good.
  4. Blowing up your spare condoms and popping them will sound like gunshots and scare off your potential zombie attackers
  5. If you are holed up in your bedroom for a romantic night in, with food and wine, you’ll be able to survive for longer without having to go outside and confront the zombies
  6. If the output of having sex in your household has been any number of children, you can sacrifice them to save yourself
  7. If the zombie outbreak is really on a movie screen – then having sex will give you a reason not to watch
  8. If you get really desperate you can thrust your partner towards the zombies and make a run for it!

So what’s all this?

Been playing with a little online toy designed to help break writer’s block and help you get creative about your blog content. It’s called the Linkbait Generator and you can find it here http://linkbaitgenerator.com

Have fun playing – it’s not the most sophisticated tool on the planet, but feel free to use it to inspire some creativity – and have a laugh.

Later,

Karen

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10/03/2010

How to Get Rid of Pesky Caterpillars

Filed under: Attracting link love — Tags: , , — proseotalk @ 5:51 pm

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Hmmmm …

This is a question that has been on my mind lately – how to eliminate, or at least scare off, those pesky green caterpillars that like to munch on my brassicas!

I am not one to sprinkle liberally with derris dust or spray with anything that requires time to be left before the food can be safely eaten, so what to do, what to do?

Funnily enough, I was checking out a new service offered by yellow.co.nz, called How To guides, and thought I would throw in the universal gardening question.

Sure enough, I came up with a great post from a guy who coincidentally happens to be a client of ours – David Brittain from Kiwicare.

And they have a great organic option for getting rid of the little blighters, which works on a bacterial organism that the caterpillars really don’t like.

So, all I need to do is purchase some of this magical elixir, spray it on every few weeks and my kale plants should soon be bug free.

Woohoo!

By the way, if any of my readers are experts in a particular area, and keen to write their own How To guide, here is the link for submissions … http://howto.yellow.co.nz/

Great opportunity to get some links back to your own website and put some valuable content out onto the interwebs.

Till next time,

Karen

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15/01/2010

Surprise – it’s still all about content!

Filed under: Uncategorized — proseotalk @ 11:42 pm

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The rumbles are out there in the interwebs (as per usual) about more changes in the Google algorithm and what impact it will have on companies wanting to optimise their websites.

Well the good news is that if you are focusing on building awesome content into your website – you will still come out on top of the heap!

Never stop thinking about what you can add to your site that might be of interest and value to any readers, anywhere. Especially good if it relates to your core business of course … but the occasional article or blog post that is off track can be good too … it’s a little like when your local supermarket decides to move things around. You find it harder to see the things you normally buy, but you sometimes end up discovering completely new products you’ve never bought before.

And you eventually rediscover where they have hidden your usual shopping staples.

So where do you put fresh content on your site?

You might build a blog or add a blog to your site, skin it to match the rest of your site design.

Or add a section themed around the main content of your site; a press section perhaps; news; or expand existing pages to include more relevant information and detail that might be of interest to visitors.

Any questions? Post them below – I would love to hear from you.

Karen

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26/12/2009

Welcome to 2010 – Moving out of the Comfort Zone

Filed under: Uncategorized — proseotalk @ 11:00 pm

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Yep, that’s it … I have officially designated 2010 as the year of moving beyond the comfort zone.

What does that mean for you?

What challenges can you create for yourself that will take your life, your job, your business – and your website, to a new level.

What are the things that technology has enabled in the last 12 months that might entice you to look differently at what you are doing – and make some changes as a result?

Check out this interview with Mashable’s Pete Cashmore on CNN, and his post about the 10 top trends he forecasts for 2010.

Are you going to be riding Google Wave – or at least one of the first to actually get your head around it and start using it the way its developers conceptualised?

Are you going to take Twitter to the next level for your business?

Will you be ready to take new technologies by the horns and really make them work for you?

Or will you be sitting back waiting for everyone else to take the lead before you make a move.

Stretching ourselves, taking some risks, moving outside the comfort zone of business as usual is key to innovation, growth and progress, particularly when so many have battened down the hatches to weather the recession.

As we have seen in the past, the best companies have emerged out of tough economic times leaner and more creative, more productive than before, to really take the world by storm.

Are you going to be one of those? Or will you be one of those who fall by the wayside because you were too scared to put your toe in the water.

I wish you courage, creativity, commercial nous and great success in 2010 – roll on the new decade!

Happy New Year everyone.

Karen

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16/11/2009

10 more great reasons to update your website content

Seems that plenty of readers are looking for a rationale for why they need to update their company websites.

I would also like to make the point that if one of the reasons your site is not being regularly updated is because you have to get your web company to do it for you, or your staff find it difficult to use the CMS behind your site – then it is time for a change.

Get training for your staff

or

Have your site shifted to a user friendly CMS (Joomla is one good option to check out).

Don’t let the construction of your site stop you from keeping it fresh. (more…)

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10/11/2009

Fawlty Towers-style marketing

Filed under: Populating your site — Tags: , , — proseotalk @ 9:51 am

How brave are you when it comes to your web content?

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Yes, once again I am talking about doing what it takes to make your site stand out and connect with your target audiences. And even better, create the kind of content that is different enough and edgy enough to make readers send their friends and colleagues to read it for themselves – or email/share your site links.

All too often we get scared when it comes to doing something cool with our site content. The pressure to be polite, politically correct, grammatically correct, and really, kinda boring … is very strong. (more…)

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31/10/2009

10 must-do’s for website content

Filed under: Populating your site — Tags: , , , — proseotalk @ 8:38 pm

Ok, so I am going to succumb to another list about great website content for SEO … since that seems to be what floats people’s boats out there in the interwebs.

  1. Put your audience first – what will they be looking for on your site? What will turn them on, and keep them there to read all the good stuff and maybe even purchase your products or services … and what will scream out at them to just click right off the site.
  2. Use the tools at your disposal. There are many free tools to analyse how people are interacting with your website and most of them are free. Make sure you install Google analytics at the very least, and learn how to use it. This is powerful information that too many people ignore.
  3. Keep your sentences short and sweet. People will be scanning the page, so they need to get the sense of what you are saying quickly. Avoid long, complex sentences – attention will be quickly lost.  (more…)
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27/10/2009

Vanilla or lime? Does your site have flavour??

Filed under: Populating your site — Tags: , , , , , , — proseotalk @ 9:51 pm

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When you are creating a website you want people to come back to over and over again … and a site you want people to recommend to others, it is important that it has depth and  flavour.

The interwebs are full of vanilla sites that are little more than online brochures, they have no depth, no personality – no real reason for people to want to come back again. (more…)

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09/10/2009

a really good day in SEM is

Filed under: Uncategorized — proseotalk @ 8:32 am

when all your stats come up roses!

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07/10/2009

when the going gets tough … how to combat the current recession

Filed under: Populating your site — Tags: , , , — proseotalk @ 8:30 am

The tough turn to the internet.

tough

(or Batman and Superman)

Right?

Well that seems to be the trend, as things get tougher out there for the traditional marketing media of print, television and radio, internet spending is increasing, and the expectations of what the net can deliver are getting higher. (more…)

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