In his 2012 Commencement Address to the University of Arts in Philadelphia, British author Neil Gaiman famously said that “a freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.”

Twitter is one of the greatest tools you have at your disposal to promote your blog or any other content. It’s short and concise and that attracts viewers. But writing good Twitter headlines is more of an art than a science. When starting out, you have no idea what to do in order to get people to click your link and read your article.

It’s safe to say that Thanksgiving is a pretty big deal. It’s one of the major holidays of the year in the U.S. and it’s becoming more and more important all around the world. The meaning of Thanksgiving is one of being thankful for what you have – both things and people around you. This year, small business owners have another reason to feel thankful for. You see, this year, the shopping season starts early.

With the advent of social media and the marketing opportunities it opened up, it seemed as though email marketing had been pushed into the background. Not so long ago, email was the foremost source of online communication. That may not be the case anymore, but it does not mean that email has become extinct. Surely the proponents of social media make a strong case, but can we conclude that email has lost relevance in the modern age?

The Internet is all about choices. But, once you’ve made all these choices and finally have a blog, on a platform, on a domain you bought or on a .blogger, .wordpress, .tumblr or another free domain, with a custom-built or generic theme, you find yourself with the biggest question you’ll have to ask yourself while blogging. That question is, of course, “How do I make myself noticed amongst the millions of other blogs out there?”