Include a lot of links in your blog posts?
Don’t want to waste characters and space?
Always better to say less right?
Concise is what they call that and I’ve got a great way to help you do that.
If you blog a lot from your smartphone then here is the fast way to shrink links without adding an app to do this.
I use my ubersocial app to shrink every link I have.
Why?
Simply put its fast, easy, and correct.
I go to my blackberry drop down menu, click uber tweet and paste the link. After that I scroll down to shrink url and viola it is done. After that I copy it and paste it where applicable.
Another nifty benefit of this is that I can write a tweet then and there that is perfectly tailored and I’m not wasting any effort.
One last trick: Hyperlinks in ms word.
Copy a pic and paste it in microsoft word and then right click on the image.
Scroll down to edit hyperlink and from there put the links you want that pic to direct to.
Simple. Direct. Factual.
Get at me with your thoughts.
#thriveorsurvive.
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right” –Napoleon Hill
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So I’m at the hospital with the wife waiting for the Specialist- Again.
It seems like no matter what doctor I see, in what borough, I wait an hour.
Now I don’t know about my readers perspective but for me Time IS Money. Literally in this case as to see this one specialist we have to drive in and pay for parking in a private, high fallutin’ lot. And its quite expensive.
What gets my goat is that we were early. And to top it off this happens here every time regardless of how many patients are waiting.
And what’s worse is that some doctors have the audacity to bitch and moan when we are even a little late.
Where’s the empathy?
Where’s the concern?
Hell, where’s the plain old common human decency? Guess it aint too common anymore.
When did we not become customers/clients that have value?
Since when can doctors string us along and leave us in various waiting and screening rooms for myriad hours.
I could be in the gym.
I could be in the movies with my wife.
I could be closing clients or writing editorials.
Bottom line is that in my business if I treated people like the disposable paper my wife is sitting on now I’d be broke.
I’d be bankrupt at denny’s getting plates off tables if I was lucky.
When did we become disposable commodities?
When did we as Americans decide to accept this?
My dentist tried this and I gave them heck.
He knows I don’t have time to waste.
Then again he also knows I’m an avid bodybuilder and I’m double his size and that I work within the security world (not the flashlight type either).
However I think my choice of calm cool displeasure, plainly stated with concise terms made the point all on their own.
Now we all know the name of the game is profits but this is ridiculous.
It is downright disgusting.
That people with legit illnesses, that have appointments to see specialists are made to wait in perpetuity.
If this was an emergency room, hey we all know the odds.
However when I see a specialist he shouldn’t be overbooked.
Heck when I get my teeth cleaned I shouldn’t wait.
The questions begging to be asked are quite simply-
*Do the doctors place such little value on the patients?
*Are office managers and secretaries that obtuse?
*Are they instructed to bang us out like I did when hanging sheetrock?
Shoot, I got paid by the hour not the sheet it isn’t even comparable. My old boss got paid by the sheet. And he hustled. And he made an honest living doing great quality work.
In a world where medicating the populace seems to be the go-to strategy,
have we lost the desire for quality patient care at every encounter?
Well I had time to pen this and I’m still waiting. Expect my parking bill to be over $40 for a 15 minute conversation as this is a follow up to a follow up and we need about 3 questions answered.
But I guess our needs and concerns are trivial inconsequential matters.
-Follow up. Doctor came in about 12 minutes ago and told us he didn’t know we were here. Not that we were here for him, but that we were here in general. Isn’t that sweet?
Bet they get the billing right.
Oh, and we’re still waiting…
#GetHeavy
Google likes 500 Words.
Google weights your blog posts greater when they are 500 or more words.
Google likes 2 pages times new roman double spaced.
Okay maybe the last one is bullsh*t but you see I remember writing those small papers and they were always 2 pages times new roman double spaced.
No Courier New font, no size 13 font et al.
Laugh if you will but college was cagey fun.
And those little papers that I hated became a chore after I realized it was harder to cap myself at 500 and not just let my pen flourish, well keyboard actually.
But over time it was true. I was always a writer, but college papers and procrastination made me a great writer.
And I can hear the people calling me names. And it may be true if you don’t see what I mean.
My point is that I made myself the best writer I could be. It doesn’t mean I’m amongst the elite. Quite the opposite.
Now onto Google.
Google likes blog posts of a certain length.
500+ words sets a trend. It makes things better so they say. It adds validity. Credibility. Shows your serious perhaps.
And to an extent I can agree.
Anyone can type 50 words. Heck twitter is 100 plus characters and people go nuts.
Add a hash tag (#) and you may be the trending top of the week (aka #tt).
Is length really an indicator of greatness though?
Does length equal greatness?
Maybe in an Extenze commercial. But in the writers world I’d wager it doesn’t. And if you’ve seen some of the books that sell to the high heavens on Amazon’s Kindle you know that a 100 page book, sometimes less, can sell a few hundred thousand copies with ease.
Victory, sales, whatever you want to call it, whatever you need- won’t always be found in meeting Google’s quota.
Quality.
Quality isn’t found only in specific quantities or large sets of words. Not that 500 is a lot of words per say, but you get the point. Many soliloquies are not long. Haiku’s- well, you get the point. Quality is found in many forms and so it goes with blogging.
Not every blog post need be long.
Lately I’ve used infographics on two of my blogs as I see the pure potential and potency in letting images speak for themselves.
I’ve also used a new format I dubbed the “quick tip”. I focus my mind and thoughts into a concise post or rant and simply post away. Not everyone wants to read my magnum opus (did I say that right?).
I’ve had great success with this format too.
I like it, they like it.
My blog wins, my readers win, Nice.
#thriveorsurvive.
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right” –Napoleon Hill
Thoughts? Concerns?
Questions? Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you?
Let’s chat-
Tony@Changeinadvance.com
@changeinadvance
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Or simply reply to this article.
It isn’t the smartest guy in the room who wins the game or takes home the prize-
Its the guy who implements properly.
Makes sense right?
Well I missed it for a few years even though I intuitively knew it.
Earlier this morning while watching a competitors online presentation I had this epiphany.
I had my laptop on mute and I was even multitasking! And yet I noticed one glaring flaw in his pitch. his spelling and grammar were horrible.
Now I’m not a stickler for the rules by any means but this seemed bad to me. He was selling me- almost. Then I saw the whole package and was sold. Yup. Spelling or not I wanted his package and its price was good.
It was then I realized that I was a fool. Lol.
You see he had a great presentation.
A great product.
And he had me hooked.
He also had my email on his marketing list.
The winning move was that he implemented and acted faster.
If you have an idea- ACT ON IT.
Write down your idea.
Map out a course of action.
Implement.
That’s 90% of life. And 100% of business.
Well it’s 90% in both cases but if you don’t act you don’t win.
#thriveorsurvive.
“Don’t wait. The time will never be just right” –Napoleon Hill
Thoughts? Concerns?
Questions? Think I’m wrong?
Let’s chat.
Need ideas?
Want to learn how to invite?
Let’s chat.
Want a mentor or maybe the guy who will bounce ideas back and forth with you?
Let’s chat-
Tony@Changeinadvance.com
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