Articles by Ralf Skirr
„It’s Not My Fault,“ Said The Entrepreneur.An entrepreneur blames his former SEO company for spammy articles in his name. As a business owner, you are responsible for what happens in your business.
- 3 Ideas To Improve Your Blog
I’ve made improvements to my blog, and I share them with you, including screen shots and resource links, so you get ideas for improving your own blog.
- 3 Surefire Ways To Improve Your Profits
To improve your profits, improve what leads to profit. Three ways to do that are a better product or service, better marketing and better habits.
- 5 Ways To Increase Revenue And Profit
Five short ways to increase revenue and profit: raise your prices, win new customers, sell more to existing ones, create new offers and cut your costs.
- 6 Ways To Inspire Commitment In Your Tribe Members
Five emotional triggers from Blair Warren's one-sentence persuasion course plus one more build commitment in your tribe, at three levels of maturity.
- 7 Warning Signs You’re Suffering From Entrepreneurial ADHD
Seven signs of Entrepreneurial ADHD, the habit of dabbling in projects without progress, and a three-step solution to focus your online business.
- Add THIS To Your Business To Attract Better Customers And Command Higher Fees
Measure your confidence and competence in business. Four combinations show why the right balance of both brings higher fees, bigger clients and referrals.
- Another Blow For SEOs
Google Analytics hides a growing share of the search terms that bring visitors to your site, another sign that SEO and traffic from Google are changing.
- Are You Killing Your Brand For Peanuts ?
AdSense on your business web site makes your brand look poor & unprofessional, and might just make visitors go somewhere else.
- Are You Making This Costly Mistake On Your Business Web Site?
Content written for your peers drives clients away. Check whether the articles on your business web site speak to your customers or to your competitors.
- Blog Blackout - How To Secure Your WordPress Blog Against Brute Force Attacks
Hackers took this blog down with a brute force attack. Tips to secure your WordPress blog, from strong passwords and login names to hiding the login page.
- Building Your Tribe - More Questions Than Answers
After five and a half weeks of blogging, thoughts on building a tribe and the questions of why, what, who, where, when and how to ponder first.
- Business Automation: 9 Time Savers For Everyday Tasks
With automation your business keeps working when you are not, and you save lots of time. Discover 9 ways to automate tasks, and the best tools to use.
- Calling Out A Fluffer
A fluffer pads text with meaningless words. Edited examples from a guest post show how you cut long phrases, needless words and repetitions.
- Crazy? Why You Don‘t Need Facebook Google+ & Twitter & LinkedIn & Pinterest
Social media experts make every platform look indispensable. Why you should focus on one social media site and stop spreading yourself thin over many.
- Decision Is The Ultimate Power
Small daily decisions shape your life as much as the big ones. In business they decide between the pool and a blog post, or Facebook and calling prospects.
- Dedication Is A Game Changer
Jason Yang recorded the same arrangement 14 times on four instruments. His work shows dedication, and in business dedication is a choice you can make.
- Don't Shoot Your Clients
Military metaphors like target group and strategy do harm in business. They turn clients into functions, and your marketing loses touch with real people.
- Follow me on the Fediverse
A new plugin connects WordPress to the Fediverse
- Google Plus Circles Tutorial – How To Use Circles For Your Business
A long tutorial on using Google Plus circles for business: naming and managing circles, six business goals, who to circle and eight ways to find people.
- Guest Blog Fail - The Most Ridiculous Guest Post Offer You've Seen This Year!
A guest post offer full of self-praise and a deadline, and what it teaches you: keep pitches short, match the blog's topic and build relationships first.
- How Fast Can You Go - A Simple Tip To Increase Productivity 30% In 1 Day
A simple productivity tip: work on a task only while you keep your initial speed, then take a short break and switch to a completely different task.
- How To Achieve Life Goals For Mortals
Out of the blue my NLP trainer lashed out at me. It felt like a slap in the face."You're thinking you're immortal!"I didn’t get it. I was pissed.That was 15 years ago. Now I see others who aren’t getting it.
- How To Add Proven Sales Power To Your Marketing Material
Client feedback, referrals and social media engagement reveal why people buy from you. Focus your marketing material on these themes to sell with ease.
- How To Find Your Blog Voice
You find your blog voice by looking at what you have already written. Refine it sentence by sentence, and your thinking and your writing change with it.
- How To Gain Visibility On The Web And Beyond - Part 1
Part 1 of a series on gaining visibility on the web and beyond. A short checklist to update your website and profiles and align them under one brand.
- How To Gain Visibility On The Web And Beyond – Part 2
Part 2 on gaining visibility: list your offline associations, find their online presences and use them to show your business to new audiences.
- How To Gain Visibility On The Web And Beyond – Part 3
Part 3 on gaining visibility takes your content into the ecosystems of Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft, as Kindle eBooks, podcasts, apps or magazines.
- How To Get Whatever You Wish From Your Business
Jumping between opportunities gets your business nowhere. Focus on one business model, one customer group and one marketing channel to get what you want.
- How To Make Your Business Future Proof
Five strategies to make any business future proof: follow trends, move early, build marketing channels you control, serve the underlying need and innovate.
- How To Master Your Social Media Accounts In 30 Minutes A Day
Five steps to master your social media accounts in 30 minutes a day: know your goals, follow a daily routine, use tools, automate tasks and get assistants.
- How To Outlive Everyone
26 years as an entrepreneur, with debts, failed partnerships and unfinished products along the way. A short reminder that perseverance pays in business.
- How To Write A New Blog Post Every Day
There is no writer's block, only a missing starting point. Four starting points for a daily blog post, with a paper notebook for ideas as the main one.
- If Your Business Sucks, It's Because You Suck!
Your business is an extension of you, so its problems show your habits and choices. Six areas of personal improvement that lead to a better business.
- Klout Offers FREE Social Media Sharing Tool– What’s In It For Klout?
Klout's free sharing tool gets more people to connect their social media accounts, which feeds its core business. Plus 11 ideas to make the tool better.
- Make A Difference - By Donating Idle Computer Time
Join IBM's World Community Grid, and your computer uses its idle time for research on AIDS, cancer, clean water and solar cells. Setup takes 10 minutes.
- Midjourney Stylize Parameter
The --stylize or --s parameter influences how simple or how "stylish" the look of your Midjourney image will be.
- Motivational Alchemy - The Cure When Motivation Doesn't Work
When motivational strategies stop working, look at three things: faith that you can reach your goal, joy in the actual tasks and a goal worth the effort.
- New Triberr Facebook Group
Leaders of Triberr is a Facebook group for Triberr members and tribe leaders to network, share blogging and promotion tips and get advice from each other.
- Persuasion vs. Inspiration - A New Paradigm For Getting Clients
Selling by persuasion means turning someone into a buyer. Inspiration finds people who already resonate with your offer, which makes selling easier.