As you go about setting and sharing your goals for 2013, we hope you will share them with us! We encourage you to tweet your goals to us on Twitter and include the hashtag #HubPagesGoal, and to post your 2013 objectives on our Facebook wall as well. We’re especially interested to hear about any particular…
Read MoreShare Your Custom Illustrations With HubPages!
This month, as we share tips and advice on working custom made graphics into your Hubs, we encourage you to share cool sketches, drawings, graphs, graphics, and other illustrations you have included in your work to provide our community with some inspiration. Here’s how to join in: On Facebook: Visit our Facebook page and select…
Read MoreA New Learning Center Guide to Google+
With our series of Learning Center entries on social media, we have already offered advice for Hubbers who seek to make the most of Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest, and our latest guide addresses a fourth popular social network: Google+. Even if you do not have time (or motivation) to be an active participant on Google+…
Read MorePinterest Tips for Hubbers
Our social media-centric series of Learning Center entries (which has already addressed Twitter and Facebook) continues with a guide to Pinterest, which offers tips and tricks on making the most of this trendy, image-centric social network. Our guide covers: Using the Pin This button on Hubs Including beautiful images in your Hubs to increase their…
Read MoreA Hubber’s Guide to Facebook
Last week we published a new Learning Center guide sharing tips on using Twitter in a way that can benefit one’s Hubs and general online brand. This week, our focus turns to Facebook. This second installment in a series of four guides to using social media as Hubber (which cover Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest)…
Read MoreTips on Making the Most of Twitter
If you want to create a robust online brand and share your passions and expertise with as many people as possible, you will need to expand your reach beyond just HubPages. While many people do so on personal websites and blogs, it makes a lot of sense to maintain a presence where everyone else is-…
Read MoreA Hubber’s Guide to Using Pinterest
If you spend any time on social networks, chances are you’ve heard of Pinterest. If you follow social media news, chances are you’ve read multiple times over that you have to establish a presence on Pinterest now. Maybe you’ve looked at the site, but haven’t yet “pinned” anything. Maybe you’re already knee-deep in your friends’…
Read MoreSeparating Business and Personal Lives Online
Many online writers use social media channels such as Facebook and Twitter to promote their writing, but doing so is not as simple as you might expect. If you combine business and pleasure online, you run the risk of alienating your audiences. By sharing personal information with people who are only interested in your writing, you run…
Read MoreSocial Media 101 for Online Writers
Are you interested in sharing your writing and personal brand with others? Chances are people are telling you to use social media channels like Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. These channels can be excellent platforms to help you promote your personal brand and writing, but there is a wrong way to go about using them. Listen…
Read MoreEstablishing Your Personal Brand
When you hear the word “brand” you may think of companies, not writers, but creating a strong personal brand is very important if you wish to make it as an author. For this week’s Online Writing Insider podcast, Pia Chatterjee and I discuss four simple things you can do to build your personal brand as…
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