How to Make Your Blog Mobile-Friendly
Do you want more mobile subscribers and readers?
Is your blog suitable for a mobile device?
In 2012, mobile users spent 63% more time on their devices accessing mobile websites and apps and this is set to increase.
In this article I’ll explore the importance of mobile for your blog and the different options available to support your blog on a mobile device.
Is Mobile Important for Your Blog?
Yes! An increasing number of your readers will access your blog from their mobile devices. Smartphone usage will continue to increase and don’t be surprised if more people access your blog from a mobile device rather than a desktop in the future.

Analytics display details of how many people are accessing your website from a mobile device.
Before you make an investment in this area, it’s useful to check your analytics to find out how many people access your blog from a mobile device. 
26 Tips for Success With Location-Based Marketing
Social, local, mobile are three words marketers are hearing more and more these days.
And sometimes we may even hear them uttered together in one breath as SoLoMo.
With an increase of users relying on mobile phones, tablets and their accompanying geo-location technology, businesses today are increasingly finding the need to think locally. So, how does SoLoMo work for businesses?
In this post, we’ll introduce 26 tips, an A-Z guide for location-based marketing.
#1: Analytics
If you’ve been wondering about location-based marketing, chances are that you’ve thought about how you’ll go about measuring performance.
Mohamed Kahlain suggests five tools to help get a handle on how well your efforts are doing: Geotoko, Titanium + Geo, Momentfeed, WebTrends Mobile and Fourscore.

An example of Webtrends Mobile Analytics Insights.
5 Steps to a Successful QR Code Marketing Campaign
Are you wondering how to use QR codes to enhance your marketing?
Keep reading to learn some tips for implementing 5 essential steps.
Why QR codes?
QR and other two-dimensional (2D) codes can be readily integrated into your current business marketing practices to bring your online content to a mobile audience in real time.
Here’s a cool video that gives you an intro to QR codes.

QR code to the Social Media Examiner home page.
In North America, QR and 2D codes are still a novelty. For this reason, early adopters are eagerly putting them into practice to get to market first and capitalize on the trend. As a result, some embarrassing and costly mistakes are being made.
This article will help you learn from those mistakes and develop best practices for creating a favorable user experience that serves both you and your community well.
If you need a refresher on the basics of QR, this comprehensive article will give practical information on how QR codes can grow your business. 
26 Ways to Enhance Your Blog Content
Do you blog? Are you looking for actionable tips to improve your content?
What follows are 26 tips, from A-Z, related to the craft of blog writing and a number of critical factors that will help to ensure the production of high-quality posts.
#1: Attribution
“Links are the currency of the web,” writes Jonathan Bailey. “If you use someone else’s content, whether licensed directly or through fair use, it’s important to be sure to provide a clickable link to the original site if at all possible. This not only helps visitors to your site find the original work, but it also provides SEO benefits for the creator of the content and guards against your site being mistaken by the search engines as the original work.” 







