What you see above is an embedded post from my Facebook Page. There are a couple things I want to share with you regarding that update that you'll find particularly useful for YOUR online business...
Creative Content Angles
Today, Saturday September 21st, is World Gratitude Day. It's one of many interesting observances you can use for creative content angles on your blog and/or your social media channels. If you plan in advance, you can use holidays and observances to create sharable content (or "share bait") for higher engagement. And you can also use them to release special offers, new (related products), fun discount codes (WGD20 for 20% off on World Gratitude Day only! -for example).
For even more ideas see this post.
Be sure to download the FREE Blogging Calendar (aff). I have it printed out and keep it in a 3-ring binder on my desk for easy reference. 😉
In addition to the holidays and observances already included in the free blogging calendar, you can find more fun quirky observances with a simple Google search. This past Wednesday (September 18th, 2013) was National Cheeseburger Day for example! Which I used as a creative content angle for a social media post here.
A Pinteresting Use of Photos & Images...
The Easy Title Templates (aff) are great for so much more than just creating awesome Pinterest images!
As you can see in the cover graphic example to the right, these templates are also great for creating beautiful ebook & report covers. Other great uses include sharable Facebook images, and creative images for your blog posts.
Pinterest is HOT right now, and the better your images (no matter where you publish them!) the more likely they are to get pinned and shared.
Easy Title Templates make it super simple with drag & drop image creation. And you don't even need fancy image editing software. You can use the free web-based program at Pixlr.com!
I used these templates to create the text over the waterfall photo in the Facebook update at the top of this post. I also used them to create a fun update on my low carb blog, which you can see here.
You can get the entire package of image templates - with more than 40 different styles in 200+ colors - for only $15. That's a steal. 😉
Happy World Gratitude Day!
In honor of World Gratitude Day I would like to say THANK YOU for being part of the ClickNewz community! I so enjoy sharing tips with you, hearing your thoughts, and having the opportunity to connect with you & get to know you!
Without you, I'd be talking to myself. 😐
I'm grateful for you today, and every day of the year! 😀
Best,
* Disclosure: I am an affiliate for the BlogEnergizer FREE Blogging Calendar and Easy Title Templates. Both are awesome downloads I use myself, and highly recommend. Enjoy!
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Pinterest is known as a great traffic source today. It's great to know there's Pinterest related tools to create interactive and compelling image we can use there. Thanks for sharing this post and Happy World Gratitude Day to you too 🙂
I love Pinterest. One of my niche sites just pulled in traffic daily without my knowledge. After many mths, I've came to realized that most of the traffic came from Pinterest.
However, the conversion sucks. I'm not too sure how to convert with the traffic from Pinterest. Any tips?