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Who Is Active In Blogging? 2008-09-24 15:31:45 Is your target audience active in blogging?
I’m willing to bet the answer is yes. Or if not yet, very soon.
I’m continuing to follow the State of the Blogoshpere 2008 by Technorati, and found a few more interesting facts.
Over 51% of all respondents to their survey admitted they have more than one blog. Once [...] Read more:Active
, Blogging
My Take on Technorati’s Annual State of the Blogosphere 2008 2008-09-23 11:19:25 Technorati will be releasing their annual State
of the Blogosphere
2008 report today and over the next few days. I read through Part 1 today.
Some of the statistics were expected:
133 million blog records have been indexed by Technorati since 2002
7.4 million blogs posted in last 120 days
900,000 blog posts in 24 hours
57% of US [...] Read more:Annual
, Technorati
7 Things I Learned From Blogworld 2008 2008-09-22 16:21:19 Back from Blogworld 2008 in Las Vegas this past weekend. I’ve heard some industries are declining and trade shows are going with it. Well not in the land of blogs - this conference was huge and thriving.
I’m excited to start sharing all I learned this past weekend with my clients. So I thought [...] Read more:Learned
Should I Blog If They Aren’t Reading? 2008-09-18 15:39:55 I got into an interesting discussion with a friend of mine on the way up to a meeting. He’s having a similar discussion with his clients as I am with mine.
After a few weeks of blogging, our clients call us up with one question:
Nobody is reading my blog so why should I keep [...] Read more:Reading
The Top Blogging Tips From The Experts 2008-09-15 12:32:20 What a weekend!
I spent the last few days attending a blogging and social networking convention - the IZEAFest - in Orlando, and brought home a strategy of where I’ll be taking my blogs in the future. It was eye opening to me to discover I’m doing so much right [or at least doing what some [...] Read more:Blogging
, Experts
Negative Blog Comments - Don’t Be Too Concerned 2008-09-10 14:39:18 What do you do when you spend your time writing a dynamic post [at least you think it is] and all of the sudden you start getting negative feedback?
The first one is always the hardest. How can someone not agree with you? How can they state their beliefs, and counter what you had to say [...] Read more:Comments
, Negative
Recession Proof Your Small Business 2008-09-09 07:57:54 Now that we’re well into September, let me ask you a question.
How are your yearly sales figures? Are they higher, the same, or lower than last year? Is your business doing everything you expected it to?
Everywhere you turn there is talk of recession, and how people simply aren’t buying what they used to. But [...] Read more:Business
, Proof
, Recession
, Small
Does Twitter Work For Marketing Your Business? 2008-09-04 14:09:48 I’ve been on Twitter
for several months now. And I must admit, Twitter is kind of an addition. I use Twhirl, a desktop application that allows me to see all the posts to my Twitter account as they happen.
But the question always remains, "Is this a useful tool, or a waste of my time?"
I’m [...] Read more:Business
, Marketing
Blogging For Business Tip #6 2008-09-03 14:50:54 Do your visitors and customers know what to do?
You’ve put up your blog. You post regularly. But do your readers truly understand your purpose?
Sometimes its easy to get caught up in writing and connecting. You see your traffic rise and you start making connections. But the larger you become, its sometimes easy to lose sight [...] Read more:Blogging
, Business
Blog Action Day 2008 - What You Can Do As A Blogger 2008-10-15 08:12:31 No matter what industry you are in, its fun to get involved in something that affects people across the globe. And as a blogger, the way to get involved is Blog Action
Day.
Today is Blog Action Day - the day bloggers from around the world get together and blog on one common topic related [...] Read more:Blogger
It’s Not Just The Blogging 2008-10-14 12:47:07 Everyone says you should be blogging - but the real question is "Why?"
Maybe you don’t like writing, and the thought of having to come up with 500 word posts on a regular basis is, well, somewhat unfathomable.
It’s much easier doing something when you understand the real purpose behind it.
So if you use postcards, [...] Read more:Blogging
Are you Google-able? 2008-10-07 14:08:12 Why do you blog? Why are you active on social networking sites?
Chances are at least one of your reasons is to be found by both your customers, and by search engines like Google
.
Not only can blogging and linking your blogs to social sites help you build your business, but it can also help you [...]
New Social Bookmarking site Green Living Feeds 2008-10-06 08:15:11 Do you have a green site? Is your site all about alternative energy, living in green housing, or planting trees?
Social
bookmarking is a way for people to track sites they find useful, and share those sites with your friends and followers. Many people use sites like Digg and de.licio.us to mark their favorites, but you [...] Read more:Bookmarking
, Green
, Living
So You Want To Be A Millionaire 2008-10-03 15:17:09 What would you do if someone dropped $15 million into your lap - all to buy a blog you’ve been running as a solopreneur?
Not a bad job if you can get it.
According to Paid Content, that’s what happened to John Wu, solo owner and blogger for Bankaholic.com Bankaholic provides a wealth of information on [...] Read more:Millionaire
Using Social Sites For An Experiment 2008-10-02 12:10:44 I am always amazed at how the new technology is effecting our lives. To think that during the Pearl Harbor attack, less than 70 years ago, families waited weeks, sometimes months to find out the fate of their loved ones. And today, we know and see things as they are happening.
You can visit live [...] Read more:Experiment
, Sites
, Social
Ghost Blog Writing Services - What does it truly mean? 2008-11-07 16:37:14 If you’ve ever had the desire to use a blog to market your services - but just don’t have the time to write on a regular basis, what about hiring a ghost blog writer?
There are different ways to hire a ghost blog writer.
1. Some services are national firms that write a great deal of [...] Read more:Ghost
, Services
, truly
, Writing Services
Blogging For Business Tip #8 2008-11-05 09:15:35 How do you write a perfect blog title?
You can spend hours creating the perfect post. You can write, edit, and edit some more. No matter what you have to say in your post, if your title doesn’t capture attention, no one will ever read it.
A blog title is important because:
It’s the first thing people see [...] Read more:Blogging
, Business
Social Networking: How Do You Fit It All In 2008-11-03 19:23:08 I’ve given several presentations over the past month, all on social networking. The main goal of each session has been to introduce entrepreneurs to social networking, and teach how you can boost your business using online social media.
At the end of each presentation, I have had one predominate question arise:
How much time do [...] Read more:Social
No matter how few are reading, keep blogging 2008-10-31 10:32:50 When you first discover blogging, you’re excited. You start up a new blog, create your first blog post, and you’re off.
The next few days you’re still excited, so you find something to blog about each day. You’ve collected information over the years so finding a new topic isn’t hard. You write and post, excited about [...] Read more:matter
Blogging With Photographs - Ways To Find Pictures That Complement Your Blog Post 2008-10-28 08:53:51 The purpose of a blog is to bring in readers that will find your information beneficial, and choose to follow you and possibly connect with you to do business. For most of us, a blog wouldn’t be the same if it didn’t have photographs.
As a photographer, it may seem as if I have it easy [...] Read more:Blogging
, Pictures
Blogging For Business Tip #7 2008-10-24 09:59:03 You’re blogging along.
Your blog is new and you enjoy writing.
Then you have another great idea. You start planning an event and a new product.
You take on a new client that requires a lot of time.
And you forget about blogging.
I hear that same scenario again and again.
What about marketing? Do you forget to mail [...] Read more:Blogging
, Business
What’s Your Niche? What If You Could Get Paid To Blog About It? 2008-10-20 15:17:22 Whatever business you’re currently in, what if you could turn one tiny piece of it into a full time stream of income?
In many cases I’ve reported statistics on blogging, and the numbers are quite large. But what you also have to realize is that most people create blogs as journals for things happening in their [...]
Blogging For Business Tip #9 2008-11-21 11:47:59 "Is it okay to promote?"
Everyone tells you blogging isn’t about blatant promotion.
"You should be offering great advice to your readers. "
"Offer them something of substance."
But the whole reason you’re online is to do business. Can’t you promote yourself too?
Yes!
Adding a bunch of content is great. The purpose is to provide enough content to prove [.. Read more:Blogging
, Business
The Good and the Bad of Blogging Online 2008-11-17 12:57:22 Blogging means you can have instant awareness to millions of people. If they like what have to say, it may circulate. If they hate what you have to say, it could be a virtual wildfire.
This past Saturday a new ad was put up on the Motrin site. It was an ad about moms using [...] Read more:Blogging
Wasting your time with microblogging? 2008-11-13 15:05:27 For the last couple of years, microblogging has developed as an option for small business marketers. By far the largest in use is Twitter. But other sites have popped up into the horizon as well. Other sites include Plurk, Pownce and Jaiku.
So what if you start using one site - let’s say Twitter - [...]
Should you use SEO in your blog posts? 2008-11-10 15:37:59 The next time you create a blog post, should you worry about all of the optimization techniques you’ve learned over the years, or not?
When you create a blog post, its to connect up with your readers, and with potential clients that find the post through a variety of means.
When you blog, you should be blogging [...] Read more:posts
, SEO
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