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Florrie Binford Kicher Speaking at AuthorU

Posted by Marty on May.04, 2012

Florrie Binford Kicher Speaking at AuthorUFlorrie Binford Kicher is the president of Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and is doing a great job of kicking off the AuthorU 2012 Extravaganza!

 

TONS of content coming your way in this conference where Florrie is speaking in Denver, Colorado today.


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Rockstar Radio Network Interviews Marty Dickinson

Posted by Marty on Apr.16, 2012

Here’s a recording of Judith Briles interviewing me on the Rockstar Radio Network last week. When her and I get together to talk websites, we could just go on forever! But force us to only talk about the most important elements of a website today, and an hour radio show goes by mighty quick!

 




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Author Conference Coming May 3

Posted by Marty on Mar.28, 2012

Join me, along with a room full of published/self-published authors and aspiring not-yet-published writers, on May 3, 4, and 5 at the annual 2012 AuthorU Extravaganza conference in Denver, Colorado. I’ll be kicking off Saturday with a session devoted to using your WordPress website and blog to get better search positions on Google. But, that’s just a small piece of the enormous amount of content you’ll learn from the amazing speakers coming to town from around the country.


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Melody Jones Speaking About Social Networking

Posted by Marty on Feb.23, 2012

Melody Jones speaking about social media for authors at AuthorU February 23, 2012

 

Melody Jones is doing a great job introducing social media culture to AuthorU attendees. If you’re an author or aspire to be, you really should start attending AuthorU events. Best continuing education in the Denver area.

 

I’ve never seen Melody Jones presenting before but really like how she’s mixing video into her presentation and group interaction as she presents about Google+, Twitter and facebook.


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New WordPress Website

Posted by Marty on Jan.29, 2012

New WordPress Website

If you are starting your first website, you are of the fortunate many who have the opportunity to start at the top by doing things right the first time around by implementing a new WordPress website.

 

Here’s what’s going to happen though.

 


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Transfer Website to WordPress

Posted by Marty on Jan.29, 2012

Transfer Existing Website to WordPressIf your website is not in WordPress, we recommend you do whatever it takes to transfer your website to WordPress as soon as possible. There are at least 35 reasons why your main company website should be using WordPress, but for this post, I’d like to focus this post on the 20 most critical steps to convert your traditional website to WordPress.

 


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Brian Jud Speaking at AuthorU

Posted by Marty on Jan.21, 2012

Brian Jud Speaking at AuthorU in Denver Colorado January 21, 2012

Brian Jud is speaking at AuthorU in Denver Colorado and doing a great job covering a boatload of content about book writing, book selling and book publishing. My goodness, checkout this agenda for a single 9-3pm program!

 

  • What Makes a Winning Book
  • Creating a Strategic Marketing Plan
  • Pricing Strategies
  • Retail and Non-Retail Outlets
  • Getting on Radio Programs

 


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Mark LeBlanc Speaking at NSA Colorado

Posted by Marty on Jan.14, 2012

Mark LeBlanc Speaking at NSA Colorado January 14, 2012Marc LeBlanc is doing a great job teaching NSA Colorado how to do a better job making a business out of our speaking business. Just a couple of his takeaways are:

 

-Track Your Numbers! Side-by-Side-by-Side, meaning, track your sales (separated by profit center), along side with your actual deposits, along side by side of your side by your income as an owner.

 


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WordPress Blog Post Guide

Posted by Marty on Jan.11, 2012

The Ultimate FREE Guide to Making Blog Posts with WordPress

WordPress Blogging Tips

I’m asked several times a month by clients how to make a blog post. Sometimes the question is about where to get the content, how to post the format, what to do about images, and of course SEO.

 


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Top Google Search Position in 5 Seconds

Posted by Marty on Dec.02, 2011

Google Plus Tips on Google+ and G+I have to admit that I get bored quickly listening to speakers at seminars and conferences. So, about a year ago, I started bringing my video camera along whenever I would attend an event with a well-known presenter.

 

As soon as the speaker would start speaking, I would jump out of my seat to take a photo and then upload it to my laptop. From there, I would make a blog post and challenge myself using several steps to see if I could get the post onto Google’s #1 spot for the speakers name…by the time they were done speaking.

 


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