How One Tweet Can Get Your Company Flamed on Twitter

I was going to wait until Monday to publish this post, but decided that a shorter, abbreviated version would do just fine.

This afternoon Celeb Boutique tweeted what you see at the top of this post. In light of the tragic shootings last night in Aurora, Colorado this created a bad situation.

Immediately this caused an uproar in the social media world, and thousands of Twitterers immediately jumped online to speak their words.

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How I Became “Joe Cool” in these Crazy Days

Ever wonder how people with crazy schedules stay cool through it all?

Yeah, there are times in my day where I wonder the same thing. In fact, not a day goes by where in some form I don’t think (or stress) about this.

But I’ve come a long way since I quit my day job and became an entrepreneur years ago, and I’d like to share with you how I stay cool in these crazy, fast-paced days.

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See the graph above? This is a screen capture of my blog traffic over the past 12 months, as seen through Google Analytics.

What stands out to me is the increase in traffic starting January 1st – which coincides with the New Year’s resolution I made to spend more time building my blog.

So I decided to rearrange a few things here, and established a number of ways I could produce more content. Over the past 6 months, I discovered a number of things that helped me increase my blog traffic.

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