Author Archives: Kristal Kraft

Branding Yourself Without the Pain!

Branding yourself in business is a matter of picking a name/logo and consistently exposing it to your consumers as much as possible.  When it comes to branding yourself on social media all of a sudden road blocks get thrown you your way.
The shear number of social media groups is overwhelming and more hit the market [...]

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Embedding a Link – Simple HTML Anyone Can Do!

Have you ever been working on a profile for social media and needed to add a link to your blogsite?  Many people just use the actual link like this:
http://www.kristalkraft.com
This works, but it isn’t nearly as nice as when a link is configured to look like this:
Kristal Kraft
You must agree having a text link like this [...]

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Windows Live Writer is Pretty Cool!

Bloggers who like to keep thing simple, yet work on their posts over a  period of time will like this program.
It’s a free download from Microsoft, all you need is a Hotmail or Live I.D.
Download the software and activate it.  You will need to know your password and login code for your blog.  Once that [...]

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How To Add An RSS Feed to Your Outlook Email

RSS Feeds are the best time savers for anyone who wants to keep up on the latest posts from favorite blogs.  I know I find myself getting behind or worse yet forgetting to visit some really terrific blogs, just because time seems to pass so quickly.
Every blog has a feed, or if they don’t they [...]

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How To Crop and Edit a Photo

Experts all agree, having a good profile photo on social media sites ranks #1 in importance.
Many times people don’t have a good photo of themselves or they have one that’s good but other people are in the photo. Never fear, even if you have a group photo with just your face you can use it.  [...]

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Add Value by Creating Content for the Future

Blogging has become a popular way of expressing one self.  For many business people it is a way to expand the online reach, connecting with potential customers for now and in the future.
In many ways our blog topics are critical as they will either attract or repell. The blogs are getting indexed by the search [...]

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Ten Reasons to Blog

Blogging has been a part of my life for over a decade. Yes, I do mean decade.  I started blogging in 2000, it wasn’t called that yet, but regardless it was blogging that I did.

In the year 2000 Larry and I joined a cycling community and traveled around the world.  Prior to this amazing event, [...]

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Tutorial ~ How to crop a photo on Picnik

Experts all agree, having a good profile photo on social media sites ranks #1 in importance.
Many times people don’t have a good photo of themselves or they have one that’s good but other people are in the photo. Never fear, even if you have a group photo with just your face you can use it.  [...]

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Active Rain ~ Adding a Photo on Your Profile

Active Rain is a very popular site for the Real Estate Industry.  Here I’ve prepared a quick screencast demonstrating how easy it is to upload a photo from your hard drive.
Before you begin, you will need:

a nice photo of yourself
close up shot is best
try to keep it “unbusy”
size should be approximately polaroid snap shot or [...]

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Be Nice to Your Readers

Good bloggers make it easy on their readers by using headings built with H tags.

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