Pintrest For B2B Marketing And Google’s Authority Rank Explained

I share my thoughts on the trending 1.5 billion dollar social network Pintrest, and the importance of Google Plus, Authority Rank, and getting the most of your marketing efforts

There has been a ton of debate on whether the new social network Pintrest is worth your time and how it can help your marketing efforts. I have prepared over 30 minutes of knowledge to help you along your Marketing SEO Journey for your freelance business, brand or non profit.

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Top Reasons to Use Pintrest

1. To get instant Backlinks to your Blog or Website
2. To reach a targeted demographic of 97% woman in USA using Pintrest
3. SEO Friendly for specific content
4. Tap into a trending social network that will maximize your efforts in combination with other networks such as Google Plus, Linkedin, and Twitter or Facebook
5. To extend your Brand or Company’s Social Presence for Exposure  on the web’s top authoritative profiles

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A screenshot of time spent on the top used programs in this time period.

A screenshot of timestamps which are attached to a client and project. Notice the detail.

My Life With Chrometa

Being a Creative Director, I work with various clients and do various tasks from Web Development, Graphic Design, Research, and Marketing Methodologies. It’s not always easy to explain to a client how long something will take or how much a custom service might cost. Increased business has required a time management software and project management software to compliment my project Supervisors and Teammates, and a few options showed up out of my research to make my company better and more efficient. You do get what you pay for so I understand if you feel like looking for free software to meet your needs. I recently started my 14 day trial of Chrometea, and I haven’t found any reason to reject paying the $19 per month for the data , organization, and fail proof analytics of the time I spend on Business and Personal work. Here are my experiences. Thus far, all signs point to yes.

I’ve been working with my creative team for about two years now, and one of the things that has been most difficult was to track our time management. As they say, “time is money,” and when you don’t know how much time you’re spending accurately, you’re risking underpaying yourself and most importantly over charging your clients and that’s not a good business practice. I’ve seen a few designers and developers online talking about chrometa and after I recently seen it again, I decided to take their offer and try it out for two weeks and see how it will affect my productivity. I’ve been using Chrometa for about three business days now, and I wish I would’ve had it from the start. Nonetheless, let me tell you about my experiences.

The software is very light weight, and easy to install, and the coolest thing about it is probably the cloud integration which means I can access my data or my team’s data from anywhere. I went to the website chrometa.com and clicked download. I installed it, and once complete it asked me to login or create a new account. Once I was logged in, It asked me to name the device( my desktop computer), and that was it. I was directed to the chrometa website and greeted with the dashboard and It was very easy to figure out how to navigate the interface, which was simple and strait forward.

A screenshot of the invoices created with Chrometa’s integrated utility.

First Impressions

I was intentionally put off some work to install the software and see it work, and when I started working I wasn’t able to see any data. Later, I figured out that it’s quite normal since the software by default uploads every hour. I continued to do a few hours of work and periodically refreshed the website to see if any data showed up. Sure enough, I started to see Photoshop and Dreamweaver show up with times and duration of each mouse click it seemed. I was very impressed and halfway weird-ed out by the amount of detail. I didn’t really know what to expect, but then I dug deeper into the website to find more options. There is a place to make new categories, clients, or personal list to which you can attach timestamps as they call it. I added a recent client, Belmont Beauty Bar and attached their email in the email box for that client. At the end of my work session, I was able to create an invoice with Chrometa’s invoice utility, calculate and hourly pay if applicable, and send it to them. Also, at the end of each night, I get a personal email with the time of all combined projects. After that one experience, I knew that I would help make me more money by providing better quotes and offering proof of the amount of time I put into a clients project per any given period.

Pros And Cons

Pros of Chrometa

• Accurately tracks time on your computer and time away. It is nearly impossible to fool the system as it pulls the process name from the program that is currently open at any given point in time. If you’re away, It will ask you to log what you were doing( phone call, lunch).
• The interface is simple to use and clean.
• It shows a summery of the most used apps and a line chart of time and usage. Visually see where your time is going
• The software is lightweight and dosen’t require tons of space on your computer.
• They offer team packages and the price per user is low if time management is something that will greatly increase your productivity and you’re willing to pay for good software.
• works on Mac and Windows, and you can use multiple devices per user. I currently use one on my Desktop, and one on my laptop.

Cons of Chrometa

• There seems to be a bug on Windows 64 bit. I can’t see the Chrometa icon in my task bar, so I can’t force it to upload the data like I can on my 32bit Windows laptop.
• I’d like to see more ways to categorize or export the data
• The price point is a bit high per user for the functionality, but I believe the company may be quite small. Small but powerful, so it’s not that big of an issue for a business to pay for.
• It’d be nice to see customized invoice, and or to send the list of frequently used software with the duration like the overall usage when you first log in to Chrometa.

Conclusion

My current impressions has had me missing the software before my trial is even over. It’s times like this, when I hesitate trying software that is said to be the best. It’s the best software that usually costs, and depending on how much I need the software, I’ll make a way to fit it into my budget. The price point would make Chrometa the most expensive software I’ve bought for my business, but it beats the $1200 price of Hubspots annual subscription. I really would love to try their 30 day trial, but after its done, and if I enjoy the benefits of it, I’ll be quite sad to spend that much with the current state of my business budget. Back to Chrometa though, I do recommend trying this software out and seeing who it may help you in your creative work. Whether you’re a Designer, Developer, or offer custom services to clients where you require any kind of computer work, Chrometa may be a great investment for you as it has been for me thus far in these first few days.

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The image is a screenshot of the site infinvision website

What Is A Mega Footer, And Why Is It Important In SEO?

Lets Increase Your Link Juice And Social Marketing To Bring You More Leads

If you are unfamiliar with what SEO is, let me explain it the best I can. SEO is Search Engine Optimisation. SEO is more of a methodology for optimizing a web page, social profiles, or any other online content to drive traffic to the most important place on the web. You know what that is right? Your web site or landing page of course. I’ll go into Landing Pages in upcoming post in my SEO blog category. Okay so now that we are clear on that let’s dive into talking about Footers and the new trend in Mega Footers.

In oldschool web design, a header was a header, and a footer was a footer. Its purpose was to act as a place for site navigation or anything of least importance on the website. These also included stuff like an address of the business, phone number, and the links to rss, jobs openings, or social profiles. Today, there is a whole world of a difference in the way web developers design these Mega Footers for a business’s website, and how the user interacts with it. Today’s purpose has become another place for creativity to flow, extending the features of a site, and allowing for generating leads and potential clients.

After doing some research with the good ol Google, I came across some very interesting sites which utilized the Mega Footer very well. In the example screenshot above, this company has added graphical links to their social networks, great graphic design to keep the site interesting as they are a creative design firm, and then they added another section on the very bottom to their less important links or more specifically, footer navigation. They did all of this, but not without adding an integrated web form which is used to collect feedback from their visitors. I really liked this design because as a user, I wouldn’t have to click on a feedback button, it was already accessible and thus minimizing my efforts to engage with their company and let them know what I liked or didn’t like. 

5 Ways To Identify Mega Footers

• There will be a dramatic difference in background color, gradient, or graphics, which separates the main content from the content in the Mega Footer.
• You might see forms
• You might see a giant button asking you to sign up or take some action
• It has its own style, often much different from the rest of the site as if it was another page. The screen shot I chose at glance kind of looks like its own webpage but that whole thing is the Mega Footer, and it is also quite large in height.
• Lastly, and most importantly, it’s ginormous! Mega Footers usually take up 100 percent of the screen compared to the traditional 960 pixel mobile friendly with

My Confessions As A Developer/Designer

I’ve always been my own worst critic as most people are in general whether they are designers or not. For me, I’ve always had this thing about not liking a page which scrolled too much vertically. Actually, I didn’t like page scrolling hardly at all so I opted to prevent it on my homepage. I also contain my blog posts inside of a container, which on a larger screen avoids page scroll and allows the content to scroll instead. I just felt like it was more clean and simple. Even though I teach and promote trending technologies and methodologies like in this article, I have only recently decided to go back to the drawing board so I can make a Mega Footer work for me. I’ve had great success posting articles in sites like Linkedin, Facebook, and Twitter, so I know that a super epic Mega Footer on my homepage would be 80% more effective than not having one. I say that because, I’ve been testing new products and have been kind to businesses who are consistent in the way they engage with me as a user, and their creativity. Psychology in advertising has shown that people hate being sold to. Hell, I do. A person will not respond to your pitch or the product alone, they are actually responding to the feeling of having a solution to a current problem or need. That feeling is what makes us buy a soda or snacks even though we may not eat or drink them right away.

I’ve gotten calls from Google regarding helping me improve my SEO and reach in Google Places, and I was actually happy to hear from them. Is that weird? Hubspot is for sure the most consistent, and I evangelize their software to all my clients. I recently watched a seminar that they sent me via email based on the products and ebooks I’ve downloaded in the past. I watched it one day, and the next, a real person called me to follow up on whether my business was interested in partnering with them and what I thought of the info I received. I missed their call, and I called them back and left them a message. Why would I do that? Because, I am interested in getting the most out of my business and they understand that because of the data that they get from their site, and social media. Hints the Web Form. When I fill out a form, I understand that I will receive the stuff I’m interested in. Notice how I place a general form at the end of each post to see what my readers or clients/potentials,would like to see more of. In theory, I’d get more subscribers and they would help me tailor my niche marketing to the people who want specific products. I market my products to other business similar to Google or Hubspot. A business professional with a need of marketing, seo, web technologies or methodologies to maximize their lead capture would be interesting in my products more than someone who was only interested in my Photography or Videography. Knowing that and the technologies in modern web design and marketing, I would never spam a user with content or ads, or anything that wouldn’t help inform them of my products or services. After all, the wrong thing on a site or a poor user experience will your gain in potential income.

My Ultimate Mega Footer Design

You should subscribe to this post and to my blog to see videos of my new creation in action, or check back at my homepage and lets see what I come up with. A few ideas of what might be there though are Live Rss feeds of blog post or other social feeds, a featurette from my Masterpiece Reel Youtube Channel, Free trial web forms and Calls To Action, graphical Social links, and something with flash animation or good graphics to keep a user engaged in my site without over doing anything.

In Conclusion

A Mega Footer could be the one missing piece in your marketing and design to engage with your users if you already have your social profiles overflowing with rich content to reel them in. There is a purpose for anything you can image in a Mega Footer, the only limit is none. Zero. Use this space as an extension to your business. If you have a new product, feature it in the header and in the footer especially if your page scrolls quite a bit. I thank you guys for reading along, and I am always happy to answer any questions about my company, or any of our products and services. If you found this post helpful, please share it so someone who you believe would benefit from it.

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It’s such a blessing to see the Eddie Barnett Jr. Site and Foundation be reactivated and moved into a new building. I’m very happy to be apart of this cause and I recommend my readers to support them if they know someone who’s lost their lives where an AED wasn’t available, or for any other tragedy  in a youths life. This is a place to join together and help make a difference in these families lives. It truly is sad to continuously hear about sudden tragedies for anyone, but together we will make a difference and bring not closure, but to continue the legacy that will live on with our loved ones to inspire a healthier future.

To Teena Johnson, and Eddie Barnett Jr, Modern Masterpiece will continue to support your cause and build a network of support so that the help is there when we need it the most. Make sure to check out their site Eddie Barnett Jr Foundation and follow on twitter @eddiebarnettjr

Sincerely,

Phil Bailey

Creative Director of Modern Masterpiece and the AMA.

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A hotshoe is a metal shoe where camera gear is slid into to mount it. Most common places for hotshoes is on top of your camera if you have one. A Hoteshoe has power to and electrical data, which the camera uses to determine how to utilize the device.

The difference from a hotshoe is the Coldshoe, which acts similar to a hotshoe, except there is no power to it. There is often a cold shoe on the Receiving Trigger’s bottom and a hotshoe on the top to fire an off camera flash like the YN-560.

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Smartr

Yet another revolutionary app extension for gmail, which allows you to pull up more inpormation about your contacts as you search for them and send you messages. I’ve had Smartr installed for a little over a week now, and I haven’t found a need to uninstall. It operates exactly how it sounds. Now, I can see latest tweets, updated contact images, linkedin info, and how often I interact with with groups of of contacts.

Over time, I will continue to update this post and my experiences using this wonderful app.

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Superuser Tendencies = Greater Productivity

What is a Superuser? With the many advances in technology in electronics and software, the term Superuser is becoming a thing of either you are or you aren’t. Here are a few ways to know if you are a Superuser or an everyday user with Superuser tendencies.

The term Superuser might mean that the user has administrative privileges. An example would be an administrative user in Microsoft Windows who has control over other users and can delegate permissions to each user. A Superuser might allow or deny access to specif directories on a computer with multiple users.

A Superuser might also be a user who utilized shortcuts, specific software, and creates their own methodologies to handle a high number of tasks, which may seem like overkill to your average user. I am for sure a Superuser in every sense of the word.

Below is a list of software and hardware that I and other Superusers may have in common, and some user traits which could be classified as Superuser-ish.

• Magic ISO
• Linux, Ubuntu, Ultimate Edition
• Google Chrome, Android

• Apple Iphone, Ipad
• Apache
• Uses bluetooth to pass files, chat, or communicate with multiple devices
• Uses bluetooth headsets to listen to sound from a PC while in another room, such as making a snack in the kitchen

• Subscribed to a geek magazine of any kind
• writes scripts to handle tasks
• uses more than 12 tabs in a web browser at once
• Knows about Google Voice, Google Wallet, or Chrome to Phone
• Can define the acronyms SIMM, RAM,ROM,HTML,ect
• Uses a shell of any kind, Gnome Terminal, Mac Terminal, Command Line(windows)
• watches movies while writing code, and or listening to music, and downloading software simultaneously

Does this sound like you? Are you a Superuser, have Superuser tendencies, or maybe just a guru of some kind? Testing auto publish on refreshed content.

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What happened in Vegas With A Canon 550D

In fact, I have a photographers tip/review of the Interval setting inside the new version of Magic Lantern.

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