20+ blogs about Joomla you should subscribe to

Before you start reading, this is a list of helpful blogs about Joomla, which means these blogs have more Joomla tips, tricks, tutorials etc than self-promotion of own products (IMHO). Fine line maybe, but an important one in this case.

Being fairly new to Joomla I’m constantly searching for online places to learn more and stay up-to-date. I get most of “what’s hot or not” via Twitter, but my favorite source of information and inspiration is Google reader.

I subscribed to quite a few good Joomla related rss feeds over the past year, but something was bothering me…surely this couldn’t be all active blogs about Joomla? Many of the blogs in my reader hadn’t been updated for donkey years, like nothing was happening in the Joomla sphere…or nobody blogged about it. (more…)

Tags: blogging, Joomla, Online Presence, open source

5 free online marketing resources

Search engine optimization (SEO), email marketing and many other things related to emarketing is not something mysterious that only a few wizards can do. There is a lot of things you can (and should) do…before you turn to the wizards for that final golden touch.

Learning how to use online marketing for your business takes time. There’s no quick fix available, but the resources below will give you a great start for both learning and doing. Make this knowledge work for you and your business!

0. Before you do anything else

• First – make sure you have Google Analytics installed on your site, so you can track visits and much more.
• Then – register at Google Webmaster Central and update the settings so it suits your site.
• Now – you’re good to go, so keep on reading.

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Tags: blogging, eMarketing, Online Presence, Recommended Services, seo, Social Media

Preparing for Prothemer.com launch – Behind the scenes at JoomlaJunkie HQ

We’ve soft-launched Prothemer on various networks and now it’s time to get going with the updates. So here it is – from us to you:

Things are moving forward with Prothemer.com and today we published a new blog post explaining what’s been going on behind the scenes at JoomlaJunkie HQ lately to prepare for the Prothemer launch: Behind the scenes at JoomlaJunkie HQ

A word of advice though: you might wanna get a cup of coffee before you start reading this post – there’s A LOT for you to catch up on… Enjoy! ;)

Love,
Tess and the Joomlajunkie/Prothemer team

Tags: Online Presence

Treasures of the week

Bookmarking on Delicious, Magnolia, Digg or whatever is one thing. Picking the diamonds out of the heaps of internet treasures you find every week is another thing all together. Below you will find three of the diamonds we found this week.

SOCIAL MENTION

Real-time tracking of what people say about you

Social Mention is a social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and microblogging services. It allows you to easily track what people are saying about you, your company, a new product, or any topic across the web’s social media landscape in real-time. (more…)

Tags: inspire change, Online Presence, Social Media

Killer copy! What is it and does it really work?

We’ve all heard of killer copy. But what actually constitutes killer copy? To my way of thinking it should mean any copy that is succesful in its aim. But it’s come to mean the sort of manipulative, emotive, NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) copy that we see on those narrow, letter-like pages.

Does it work and if so, will it work for you?

It undoubtedly does work but it really depends on your audience. When I see that sort of copy, while I might be enticed into reading it I rarely buy. Why? Because to me it seems somehow sleazy and I don’t trust the company. I have a sense of being manipulated and that doesn’t feel good. That may seem unfair, and if so I apologize to anyone who disagrees, but that’s how I feel when I read these pages. (more…)

Tags: Copywriting, Online Presence