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Filmmakers and writers, grab your About.Me URL now

By on August 18, 2011 in SEO, Social Media

About.me is a new, elegant and simple online tool that creates a clean and modern looking contact / resume style page for you. It features all your links, sites, a bio and photo. It’s elegant, simple and I believe it will take off. Why? It has the great and memorable URL, www.about.me, its fast and [...]

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Getting Your Headshot Shown With Comments

By on August 4, 2011 in Blogging, SEO

One of the big reasons I switched from Typepad to WordPress was the awful way in which Typepad handled comments. It was just horrible and clunky and usually ended up in me not engaging as much as I wanted to do as the system would get in the way. Now I am on WordPress, that [...]

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How to rate your social media footprint and engagement for filmmakers

How to rate your social media footprint and engagement for filmmakers

By on July 21, 2011 in SEO, Social Media

Do you have Klout? http://klout.com/#/livingspiritpix Klout is an online tool that analyses and rates your social media presence, engagement, influence, outreach… however the heck you want to describe it, and offers up a single simple score. As of writing this, my Klout is 61 (in a range from 1 to 100, where Lady Gaga is [...]

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Why you should always leave feedback and blog comments

Why you should always leave feedback and blog comments

By on February 14, 2011 in Courses, Feedback, SEO

It’s a regular occurrence on the internet, ‘can we have your feedback / comments please?’ If you are like me, the temptation is to skip this and leave nothing. I ask ‘what’s in it for me?’ In reality, leaving feedback has a number of agendas / payoffs. Here’s the obvious stuff. 1.    You get to [...]

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Adding a Facebook 'like' button to your blog and website, plus cool new Vimeo features!

Adding a Facebook 'like' button to your blog and website, plus cool new Vimeo features!

By on August 25, 2010 in Facebook, SEO, Website

I have started adding Facebook ‘like’ buttons to all of my posts on the blog. This is a really simple way to generate more traffic. Now, with this ‘like’ button, visitors can click it and my blog entry will then appear in their activity stream. That way all their FB friends can see that they [...]

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Meet Wilbur The Wallaby, one of the new characters in 'Rocketboy'

Meet Wilbur The Wallaby, one of the new characters in 'Rocketboy'

By on August 7, 2010 in Courses, Rocketboy, SEO

Yep that's Wilbur. More on him at the end of the post. Big news for us though. It’s time for us to make a change. For years now our email user group has been growing and it's time to move to a new home, to a shiny email system which delivers a much better service [...]

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How To Customise Your Facebook URL For You and Your Film

How To Customise Your Facebook URL For You and Your Film

By on July 19, 2010 in Facebook, SEO

Branding, both for you and your projects, is now essential for anyone working the creative industries. Part of that is having an easy to communicate URL that is also Google friendly. Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is the key to getting rated as high as possible in search engines and one way to help is to [...]

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How to boost your Amazon rankings and other automated systems…

How to boost your Amazon rankings and other automated systems…

By on March 3, 2010 in Guerilla Film Makers Handbooks, SEO

So a funny thing just happened. I just got an email from Amazon which recommended my own book to me! I have never had one of those emails. So why now? Simple. This is a direct result of the request I made a few weeks ago, for readers to leave reviews of the Guerilla Film [...]

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Who is your SEO…? And take The Exam!

Who is your SEO…? And take The Exam!

By on July 28, 2009 in Exam, Inspiration, SEO

‘EXAM’, the feature which I associate produced last year, premiered at Edinburgh to great reviews this summer, and has just got a full page rave in this months coming Empire Magazine. You can see the write up here. Speaking with writer and director Stuart Hazeldine this afternoon, it became clear that the world really has [...]

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