Even More Effective Short Linking Strategy

In a recent article on short linking I spoke about how you can use Pretty Link, a WordPress blog plugin, to effectively be a bit.ly or other commercial short link service which YOU control.

The creator of Pretty Link, Blair Williams, has recently posted an article on how to make short linking even more effective.

Essentially, you register a very short domain name, point it to your top level site, add a small amount of code into you .htaccess file (and if you don’t know what that is then just contact me for more details) which you need and Blair explains clearly the how and where and why.

Magic, all done. Well apart from one thing there’s a very reasonable one of charge for the pro version of the pretty link plugin.

So, if you want to build your brand, have effective links used for your brand in twitter, facebook and all forms of social media and save space at the same time then this information will be very useful for you.

When Did You Last Take Action?

For any activity or project to be successful there’s one key ingredient – ACTION. While to make it useful it has to be the right action(s) otherwise any action step is meaningless. One of the best Internet Marketers James Schramko makes this point in a recent article.

So whether it’s organising a party, the deployment of a new process or technology, the development of an internet strategy, they all rely on a series of tasks. The tasks form the basis of you and your team taking ACTION.

Action Method

There’s nothing new in all this, everyone knows it. It’s whether we do anything about it is the biggest different. There are a lot of project management tools and methods available. From the simple todo list all the way through to the big guns, like Catalyst, Prince2 etc. There are lots of complex tools to aid and support the project also, probably the most popular is Microsoft’s Project. At KIX we’ve utilised all these methods over the years but found them too heavy for many projects. We’ve tested many and found most fall short. Until we came across Action Method from Behance. There’s more to be found on the what and how of Action Method on our site. Feel free to have a look.

It wont be for everyone, but it will be useful potentially for some people and organisations.

We wanted just to share this with you to help get you into the 2010 spirit of doing.

Take Action Now!

Festive Seasons Greetings

Festive Season Greetings

It’s the middle of the festive season once more and it marks another year of activity and achievement. The year behind us is just that – behind. Let’s learn all the good things and put them to great use in 2010 to give it the promise it deserves.

Remember to tell those that mean so much to you how you feel. Do it openly and freely without any expectations. It is after all – about communication.

So from all of us at The KIX Group the best of Seasons Greetings and Great Expectations for a fantastic 2010.