by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Feb 18, 2012 | Business, How To
This is Part 1 of 3-part series. See Part 2 here. When people used to ask me for advice on how to go about getting their dream job, I used to look off into the distance and look reflective. Really, I was likely re-calculating the exact age difference...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Nov 14, 2011 | Blogging, Business, How To, Internet Marketing, Social Media
The first rule of Increasing Your Google Page Rank is Not to Talk About Increasing Your Google Page Rank. Let me back up. I have a lot of websites I dabble on/manage/own/open to grin at. I have a passive life goal to increase my google page rank on such sites. Alas, I...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 31, 2011 | Books, Good Reads, How To, Productivity
Maybe you’ve heard the story about how it’s hard to eat an elephant. Although I don’t personally know (not having eaten elephants much in my time), I would imagine as much. Tough meat. Big guy. Etc. Given how hard it is to complete the monumental...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 14, 2011 | Business, How To, marketing
So I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that I do not believe this is how you make a tea commercial. First, watch: Now, listen. This video comes from my dear friend @amalia, who emailed me this marketing nugget of gold. That provoked a...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 14, 2011 | How To, Social Media, Twitter
In honor of the 5th anniversary of Twitter officially opening its doors to the public (July 15, 2006), Twitter co-founder @biz will be radiating his awesomeness on NPR’s Wait, Wait…Don’t Tell Me tomorrow. In response, @mgrooves pointed out the first...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jun 30, 2011 | How To, Social Media, Twitter
I talk a lot about how to tweet. At conferences, in my book, on this blog, and to any and all small, defenseless babies I come across on the street. And for good reason, I must say. If you’re not following me, you really should be. That way, you can study and...