Want a Popular Blog? Put Your Ego Aside

November 23rd, 2008 → 7:01 am @ Admin

In this post Daniel Scocco examines personal branding vs blog branding.
When creating a blog, you need to decide if you want to build the brand around the blog itself or around your person.
While doing both things at the same time is possible, it will make achieving either of the goals a harder task.
Additionally, if [...]

Blogging

If I Started Today

November 21st, 200811:23 pm @ Admin

Okay, so you’ve heard from someone that this social media and social networking stuff is great and you should get involved, and it’s really going to help you out. Maybe it will help you in the economic downturn. Maybe you have heard how you can use Twitter for business. But there’s a lot to [...]

Blogging & Getting Started & SEO / Search Engines & Social Networking

Word of Mouth using Twitter

November 21st, 20087:00 am @ Admin

Here’s a simple example of how easy it is to get bloggers to talk about you: 1. Make something interesting 2. Ask a few people to share it Paolo Tosolini put a short, fun video on YouTube. He decided to…

Social Networking & Word of Mouth / Viral Marketing

Three Books to Check Out

November 19th, 20082:04 pm @ Admin

I get the opportunity to read a lot of books, and I haven’t been doing a great job of putting up my reviews in a timely fashion. Here are three different books that I’ve read lately, that I recommend for you to consider:
Advertising 2.0

Tracy Tuten’s Advertising 2.0 had a lot for me to consider. [...]

Getting Started

What You Need to Know about WordPress 2.7

November 18th, 20085:18 pm @ Admin

WordPress 2.7 is already released in beta and will go live shortly for all. I was lucky enough to get a demo of it at BlogWorldExpo a couple of months back and I have to say that I’m quite excited by what I saw. It is very different to look at and will take some [...]

Blogging

10 Questions that Guarantee SEO Success, Part I

November 18th, 200810:19 am @ Admin

When focusing on SEO strategies we often talk about the engines, algorithms, links, page-tweaks and whatnot. We focus on what we can do to improve website architecture, research keywords, or write better copy. All of these are important to successful search engine optimization, but what we often don’t focus on is the internal issues.
Businesses don’t [...]

SEO / Search Engines

The Power Of Collaboration In Today’s Blogging World – 10 Reasons to Find a Blog Buddy

November 18th, 20087:05 am @ Admin

Working alone as a blogger can at times be lonely. In this guest post two bloggers, Eric Hamm from Up-And-Coming-Blogger and “Motivate Thyself” and Sean Platt from Writer Dad have together written a post outlining some of the advantages of collaborating as bloggers and finding a ‘blog buddy’. This is the first part in a [...]

Blogging