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Tom Thiessen

Tom Thiessen explains blogging platforms and social tools through extended, deliberate metaphors rather than plain lists: Squidoo becomes an outpost sending soldiers, its individual lenses, out to feed traffic back to your main blog, a comparison he commits to and develops rather than tossing off in one line.

His backlink post breaks a genuinely large task, thirteen separate steps, into a sequence you can work through gradually rather than all at once, aimed specifically at someone with no budget to simply pay for links instead. A closing post treats blogging for money as an actual career requiring the same discipline as any job, comparing a blogger who only posts when they feel like it to an employee who only shows up on days they feel like working, and predicting neither one keeps their position for long.

The Twitter and Facebook posts stay more conventional, covering profile setup and follower growth in familiar terms found on many similar blogs.

Read the Squidoo and blogging-for-money posts for Thiessen's clearest, most original thinking. The Twitter and Facebook posts are solid but standard advice.

Twitter Blueprint

May 7, 2012 · Tom Thiessen
When you start out, your Twitter Blueprint should be small and narrowly focused.  As you build your profile, you can start to scale up your activity. Starting out on Twitter, you won’t…
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Your Facebook Profile And Network Marketing

May 3, 2012 · Tom Thiessen
With the timeline change to your Facebook profile, it’s become easier to brand yourself online. Using the tools available, you can turn yourself into a superstar in your chosen niche/business. Like every…
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Is Squidoo A Real Blogging Platform?

May 1, 2012 · Tom Thiessen
Backlinks With Squidoo Squidoo feels like a kid hopped up on sugar. The site is full of cute, cartoony graphics, comic-like pop-ups showing you how many points you’ve got, and it feels like…
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13 Steps On How To Get Free Backlinks

Apr 25, 2012 · Tom Thiessen
If you don’t know how to get free backlinks, you can wind up spending a LOT of money paying for them. Money that you could use for marketing your blog, or designing…
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Blogging For Money – A Reality Check

Apr 8, 2012 · Tom Thiessen
You want to start blogging for money.  You’ve heard all the stories about people making their fortunes online, and you want a piece of the pie. Have you taken into account what…
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