{"id":2557,"date":"2008-02-01T20:09:39","date_gmt":"2008-02-02T03:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=2557"},"modified":"2008-02-01T20:09:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T03:09:39","slug":"up-your-marketing-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/2557\/up-your-marketing-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Up Your Marketing Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Watch a video on <strong>how to improve your video skills<\/strong> with <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/351727\/improve-your-videos-or-photos-with-five-cheap-tricks\">5 quick tips (on the cheap!).<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Watch the &#8220;You Suck at Photoshop&#8221; series<\/strong>, even if it&#8217;s just for the insanely hilarious narrator. I feel for this guy, I really do. <em>These are best watched back to back and are not safe for work (NSFW):<\/em><br \/>\nVolume 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydamnchannel.com\/channel.aspx?episode=349\">Distort, Warp, and Layer Effects<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydamnchannel.com\/channel.aspx?episode=364\">Covering Your Mistakes<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydamnchannel.com\/channel.aspx?episode=371\">Clone Stamp and Manual Cloning<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydamnchannel.com\/channel.aspx?episode=379\">Paths and Masks<\/a><br \/>\nVolume 5: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mydamnchannel.com\/channel.aspx?episode=384\">Select Color Range<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.typepad.com\/t\/trackback\/2123\/25584070\"> <\/a>Seth Godin&#8217;s florist and <a href=\"http:\/\/sethgodin.typepad.com\/seths_blog\/2008\/01\/after-the-lawye.html\">mind your words<\/a>.<\/strong><strong>\n<li>Give your <strong>blog readers<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.problogger.net\/archives\/2008\/01\/29\/blogger-or-mind-reader-six-ways-to-give-your-audience-exactly-what-it-wants\/\">what they REALLY want!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><strong>Create<\/strong> your own <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.sellsiusrealestate.com\/blogging\/the-gaping-void-of-the-zen-bloggers-manifesto\/2006\/12\/09\/\">Zen Blogger&#8217;s Manifesto<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Animate your GIFS<\/strong> online with <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2008\/01\/25\/animate-your-gifs-on-the-web-with-gickr\/\">the new tool, Glickr.<\/a><\/li>\n<p><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.futureofrealestatemarketing.com\/forem-quick-tip-add-an-iphone-icon-to-your-web-site\/\">Add an <strong>iPhone icon<\/strong> to your website!<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Speaking of iPhones, <strong>set up an auto-post photo blog from your iPhone,<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/miamismpix.wordpress.com\/\">like the Miamism blog<\/a>. Excellent supplement to <em>any<\/em> blog!<\/li>\n<li>Step up your sense of humor by reading Geno Petro (<a href=\"http:\/\/genopetroche.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/random-photos-and-meanderings.html\">with hair<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/genopetroche.blogspot.com\/2008\/01\/random-photos-and-meanderings.html\">without<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/rerevealed.com\/bubble-gum-interview-andy-kaufman\">Andy Kaufman<\/a> and the like. (P.S.: know what your kids are talking about by adding <a href=\"http:\/\/icanhascheezburger.com\">LOLCats<\/a> to your feed reader)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>What tips do <strong>you<\/strong> have to share with us to help everyone brush up on their marketing game?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a video on how to improve your video skills with 5 quick tips (on the cheap!). Watch the &#8220;You Suck at Photoshop&#8221; series, even if it&#8217;s just for the insanely hilarious narrator. I feel for this guy, I really do. These are best watched back to back and are not safe for work (NSFW): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,9],"tags":[43,534,532,44,41,42],"class_list":{"0":"post-2557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-marketing","8":"category-photography","9":"tag-glickr","10":"tag-photography","11":"tag-real-estate","12":"tag-seth-godin","13":"tag-video","14":"tag-you-suck-at-photoshop","16":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3168,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/3168\/unchained-at-the-sign-printer-how-we-make-our-custom-yard-signs\/","url_meta":{"origin":2557,"position":0},"title":"Unchained at the sign printer: How we make our custom yard signs","author":"Greg Swann","date":"May 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I think this might be less than useful, but it keeps coming up in my mail. 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