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		<title>Getting Creative With Your Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I manage a few different blogs, and I am no where near a professional writer or creative with the pen (keyboard).  That being the case I often find getting creative with my blog somewhat difficult. Because of &#8230; <a href="http://fitprobiz.com/fitpro/fitness-marketing/getting-creative-with-your-blog/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>I manage a few different blogs, and I am no where near a professional writer or creative with the pen (keyboard).  That being the case I often find getting creative with my blog somewhat difficult.</p>
<p>Because of my above mentioned handicap it would be most easy to simply dump the blog idea altogether. But, I&#8217;m told that would be the wrong move by every internet marketer alive.  I also find the specific blogs a simple location to address specific ideas, changes, or issues with our various fitness industry programs.</p>
<p>So, being the resourceful guy I am&#8230; oops, that&#8217;s a different story.  Today I was fortunate to take a look at one of my RSS feeds at just the right time on small business that happened to give a mention to a company with a cool blogging content assistance program.</p>
<p>I was quickly on my way to check out <a class="zem_slink" title="Zemanta" rel="homepage" href="http://www.zemanta.com">Zemanta</a>.</p>
<p>No affiliate relationship or commission here.  I was just so impressed with some of the features in this tool, which I could easily add as a FireFox add-on, that I want to mention it to the Fit Pros who keep track of things we have going on&#8230;. This also makes great worthwhile content for me in making a blog post.  <img src='http://fitprobiz.com/fitpro/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />     I&#8217;m using it on this post and tried it first at our <a href="http://dietgrader.com/healthy" target="_blank">nutrition solution blog</a> site.</p>
<p>Zemanta is a <strong>tool</strong> that looks over             your shoulder while you blog and <strong>gives you tips             and advice</strong>, suggests related content and             pictures and makes sure your posts get promoted as they             deserve to be&#8230;</p>
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<h2>(From Zemanta) YOUR kind of Assistant&#8230;</h2>
<p><a href="http://www.zemanta.com/blog/zemanta-upgraded-with-new-ui-link-reporting-and-link-building-for-users/" target="_blank">Zemanta bloggers</a> all get a great tool to help them             create content and drive inbound traffic. But, we know             that every blogger is different, so there are different             ways you can use Zemanta, depending on your styles and             interests. If you don&#8217;t see your area of interest             bellow, drop us an email and let us know how you want             to use Zemanta.</p>
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<h3 id="books">Books</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about books and their authors:</p>
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<li>We can recommend over <strong>1.1 million book titles</strong></li>
<li>Recognition and automatic <strong>linking to writer&#8217;s homepage</strong></li>
<li>Amazon.com integration &#8211; linking to <strong>Amazon.com</strong> listing for book and inclusion of book cover</li>
<li>Amazon.com affiliate support</li>
<li>Related articles from a wide selection of book bloggers</li>
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<h3 id="music">Music</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about music and artists:</p>
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<li>Links and images for over 1,1 million Albums, Artists and Record Labels</li>
<li>Automatic link recommendation to Artist Home pages and Wikipedia entries</li>
<li>Amazon.com integration &#8211; linking to CD listing and one click cover inclusion in your blog</li>
<li>Amazon.com affiliate support</li>
<li>Automatically find complimentary posts from other bloggers.</li>
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<h3 id="politics">Politics</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about politics:</p>
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<li>Links to <strong>politicians, their homepages and blogs</strong></li>
<li>Links to <strong>government institutions</strong></li>
<li>Articles from major <strong>politics oriented media</strong> &#8211; newspapers and blogs alike</li>
<li><strong>Professional photos</strong> from recent events that you can use freely</li>
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<h3 id="movies">Movies</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about movies:</p>
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<li>Integration of <strong>IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes</strong> for link recommendations</li>
<li>Automatic recognition of <strong>celebrities</strong> and linking to their Wikipedia page, IMDB profile or homepage</li>
<li>Support for Amazon.com links and images of <strong>DVD covers</strong></li>
<li>Licensed celebrity photos from Getty Images (via DayLife), Flickr and Wikipedia.</li>
<li>Automatic tagging of blog posts with name of the movie/TV series and celebrities mentioned</li>
<li>Related articles from a selection of <strong>best movie and TV series blogs</strong></li>
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<h3 id="family">Family</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about and for your familly:</p>
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<li><strong>use your own pictures published on Flickr with one click</strong> &#8211; no more copy-pasting</li>
<li>link to articles from other members of the family and your friends</li>
<li>link to Twitter, Facebook and Mybloglog profiles of people you follow.</li>
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<h3 id="travel">Travel</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about your travels:</p>
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<li>Simple one click insertion of <strong>Google Maps</strong> for location of mentioned places and other geographical locations (e.g. valley)</li>
<li><strong>use your own pictures</strong> from trips published on Flickr with one click &#8211; no more copy-pasting</li>
<li>professional pictures for places you might have missed or ran out of batteries at</li>
<li>related travel articles and current info about the places</li>
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<h3 id="tech">Technology</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about technology:</p>
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<li><strong>CrunchBase</strong> database integration &#8211; premier resource of startups, their founders and investors.</li>
<li>Flickr that provides a lot of screenshots, for the days you don&#8217;t feel like making your own.</li>
<li>Related articles from your own list of blogs and from selection of <strong>best sources on the internet</strong></li>
<li><strong>SEO optimized tags</strong> that you can apply with a single click and make organizing your content even easier</li>
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<h3 id="life">Lifestyle</h3>
<p>Everybody has hobbies. We for instance, apart from loving semantics and blogging, also enjoy first-class wine. The main features that can help you with your wine blogging are:</p>
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<li>Powerful integration with <strong>Snooth</strong> for information on wineries and wines together with the labels andÂ homepage</li>
<li>links to Snooth, Homepages of wineries, Wikipedia, Google Maps and other resources.</li>
<li>Simple one click insertion of Google Maps for location of mentioned wineries and other geographical locations (e.g. valley)</li>
<li>Related articles from your own list of blogs and from <strong>selection of best sources</strong> on the internet</li>
</ul>
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<h3 id="sports">Sports</h3>
<p>The advantages of using Zemanta when blogging about sports:</p>
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<li>Links to most <strong>sports stars, their homepages and blogs</strong></li>
<li>links to <strong>clubs and venues</strong></li>
<li>articles from <strong>major sports oriented media</strong> &#8211; newspapers and blogs alike</li>
<li><strong>Professional photos</strong> from recent events that you can use freely</li>
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<p>Enjoy the benefits of the content you create with your blog and enjoy the benefits of a program like Zemanta to make it easier and more robust&#8230; You have similar or related resources you utilize to keep creative with your blog?</p>
<h6 class="zemanta-related-title" style="font-size: 1em; padding-left: 30px;">Related articles by Zemanta</h6>
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<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://www.bloggingministry.com/2009/08/27/some-thoughts-on-blogging-etiquette/">Some Thoughts on Blogging Etiquette</a> (bloggingministry.com)</li>
<li class="zemanta-article-ul-li"><a href="http://myventurepad.com/MVP/77275">How to Blog. A Lot.</a> (myventurepad.com)</li>
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		<title>Business Website for the Fitness Professional</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FitPro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We previously talked about you carving out your &#8220;social space&#8221; online.  While this is important is a great means for networking with other fitness professionals as well as fitness clients, at some point you will want a &#8220;home&#8221; location that &#8230; <a href="http://fitprobiz.com/fitpro/fitness-business/business-website-for-the-fitness-professional/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We previously talked about you carving out your &#8220;social space&#8221; online.  While this is important is a great means for networking with other fitness professionals as well as fitness clients, at some point you will want a &#8220;home&#8221; location that is all yours.</p>
<p>While the internet is no longer a new technology, I can point to hundreds of occasions in recent years where I have been contacted by fitness professionals asking for help in various areas of the technology use.</p>
<p>I figured the majority out, so I know it&#8217;s not rocket science&#8230; And I am still smart enough to look to a technology expert when it comes to getting fancy with an <strong><a href="http://tombomar.com/fitness-business/whats-your-fitness-industry-presence-on-line/#more-80" target="_self">internet presence</a></strong> but the basics are most likely all you need.</p>
<p>The following video gives a birds-eye view of what it takes to get started. It was put&#8230;<span id="more-95"></span> together by a company called network solutions. They can assist with the basic steps described, but I like godaddy.com for some great customer service experiences and the general attitude of the site.  There are hundreds more choices for you out there as well.</p>
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<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Establishing you Fitness Business Website is essential</span>.</p>
<p>Yep you can contact me and we can help with this, but my first suggestion is to take a look yourself. Either way, <strong>step one is to get there</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Social Activity = Website Traffic</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 21:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FitPro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More and more people are searching their connections for answers to their daily questions.  This is another I have seen and even done myself. Looking for a restraunt recommendation in another city, finding out the short cut proceedure for copy and paste, and the "what do you think of this (link goes here)." <a href="http://fitprobiz.com/fitpro/fitness-marketing/social-activity-becomes-significant-source-of-website-traffic/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Social activity equating to website traffic, may bring out significant change of who&#8217;s who in where we get our information online.  FaceBook has grown in size far faster than Google ever did.  Possibly more important, average time of user visit make this social network an extreme heavy hitter in the internet world.</p>
<p><em>How we utilize the social networking platform, is changing the website traffic game as well.</em></p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">&#8230;For a long time if you wanted your business to get found online, you focused on traditional search engines. You made sure your site could get found in Google and Yahoo and other engines.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">But gradually, almost imperceptibly at first, people started changing their online behavior. I’ve noticed it with my own sites, where each month traffic from social sites is growing.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">According to a <a href="http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/nielsen_globalfaces_mar09.pdf">Nielsen report</a> (PDF) out just yesterday, “two-thirds of the world’s Internet population visit a social network or blogging site and the sector now accounts for almost 10% of all internet time.”&#8230; (<a href="http://smallbiztrends.com/2009/03/social-activity-significant-source-website-traffic.html" target="_blank">Read Rest of Small Biz Trends Article</a>)</p>
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<p><span id="more-61"></span>Online activities in social media have become essential for business.  The number of users and their time spent online require your attention if you want to remain in touch with your customer.</p>
<p style="padding-left: 30px;">It is not suggested that you walk into these settings and begin rounds of old-school sales talk. I suggest instead that you treat these arenas as an open two way communication vehicle for you and your customer.  They know how to find your business, website, or product. They will be more likely to do so after they have had the chance to know you a bit more personally.</p>
<p>As mentioned earlier, FaceBook has grown at a much faster pace than even Google ever did. The next element that people are beginning to use it for that Google cannot compete with the &#8220;live search&#8221; capabilities of a large social network.</p>
<p>More and more people are searching their connections for answers to their daily questions.  This is another I have seen and even done myself. Looking for a restaurant recommendation in another city, finding out the short cut proceedure for copy and paste, and the &#8220;what do you think of this (link goes here).&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>From these community generated interactions and answers, come the website traffic</strong>.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m certain FaceBook and Google are both aware this change of action in the on-line populace. It is important for you as a small business owner to be aware of the same so that you can be involved where the decisions are being made.</p>
<p>Have you changed your activities personally as suggested here?  Have created a presence for yourself AND your business in one or more social networking sites?  As of yet, have you seen any changes in the numbers of visitors coming from social media sites vs. the search engines?</p>
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