February 29, 2008 – 9:15 pm
Okay, so now I’m on Twitter. I’m weird in some ways. For some things, I’m an early adopter and for other things, I wait and see. I think I’ve waited long enough on Twitter. If you want to follow me on Twitter, here’s my profile: http://twitter.com/remarkablogger. See ya on the tweet-side!
February 29, 2008 – 8:33 pm
Update: well, that went about as I expected. In other words, not too many people showed up on a Friday night! But that’s cool, because it gave me a chance to really take Ustream for a test drive, so it was well worth it.
Tonight I’m going to experiment with some live video streaming [...]
February 29, 2008 – 12:08 pm
Pop17’s Sarah Meyers got the scoop by asking Steve Chen (founder of YouTube) when they were gonna do live video. The answer is: 2008, this year. Check it out below:
The question and answer is shortly after the 3:00 mark.
What do you think? Any takers? Will YOU ever do live video? I definitely will experiment with [...]
February 28, 2008 – 7:28 am
Watch If You Can’t Blog It, Don’t Do It on YouTube.
If you were going to start a new business, what kind of business would it be?
Here’s the new litmus test: if you can’t blog it, don’t do it. Some businesses don’t have blogs and shouldn’t have blogs: oil companies, Blackwater, KBR, Halliburton, whatever. Evil = [...]
February 27, 2008 – 6:38 am
The practice of accepting money for links is longstanding and has always been controversial. Services exist to broker and facilitate paid links between buyers and sellers, taking their cut off the top. The most famous of these is Text Link Ads. Some new ones have appeared, recently, but I’ll get into that later.
Paid links [...]
February 26, 2008 – 9:53 pm
In Interview with Blog Consultant Michael Martine, you get to learn a little more about me beyond my about page, if you’re interested.
But you know, it just doesn’t feel right to put that there without thanking Dave somehow for the opportunity of a little publicity. So here are some obvious butt-kissing links to Dave’s [...]
February 26, 2008 – 1:43 pm
What do Anita Bruzzese, Brian Clark, Lorelle VanFossen, Chris Garrett, Muhammad Saleem, David Bullock, Chris Brogan, Liz Strauss, Dr. Rob Wolcott, and Ari Garber all have in common? They’re teaching/presenting at SOBcon this May in Chicago, and I’m going to be there.
This is going to be my first blogging conference, and really, I don’t think [...]
February 25, 2008 – 5:50 am
I call this post the Accidental Disclosure Manifesto because that’s what it became in the course of writing and recording it. Sometimes, these things happen. So kick back, grab a beer, and enjoy the ride…
Disclosure
If you’re catching this in a reader, you can watch the video on my blog, or here’s the Veoh link: Blogging [...]
February 21, 2008 – 9:32 am
This is the first page of Google search results as of today:
I am a very happy man, right now. I just need to say one thing: BOO-YAH!
Until today, I never claimed any SEO prowess. But making the front page of Google SERPs says something for me in a way no claims of my own ever [...]
February 20, 2008 – 9:49 am
Ethical
Commenting is a great way to drive traffic back to your blog and network with other bloggers. In fact, that is ALL it does. Links in comments do not affect your search engine rankings, as 99.99% of them will not be seen by Google (it’s called “no-follow” and it’s code your blog automatically adds [...]
February 18, 2008 – 7:12 am
The more I do blog consulting for a living, the more I am convinced that blogs are, in many ways, a key ingredient in the recipe for a successful small business nowadays. Blogs accomplish so much more than static sites ever could, and they do it so easily.
Natural chef Sue Bette offers personal chef [...]
February 15, 2008 – 12:51 pm
You’ll have to take my word for it, but the more popular the Blogger is, the slower they are respond and, for the most part, I often don’t get a response at all.
~ Mitch Joel
If you are selling creative services, one of the things that can get in the way of clear pricing is the [...]
February 14, 2008 – 12:46 am
There is no magic formula for making money in any way, online included. There is a formula, yes, but it’s quite mundane: sell people what they want to pay for. If you’re doing that, the blogging part is easy (well, okay, easier). If you’re not doing that, the blogging will be hard. Everything will be [...]
February 13, 2008 – 12:50 am
I do not pretend that blogging is the answer to everything for everyone. There are many advantages to making your entire website a blog, but there are some downsides to it, too. Let’s take a look at the idea of using a blog as the whole website, both pros and cons.
Blog as Business Website: The [...]
February 11, 2008 – 7:50 am
Many people are either too busy or are not technical enough to perform the regular tasks required to maintain a blog beyond writing posts. The Blog Wrangler is a combined maintenance, backup, and traffic analysis service.
Blog Maintenance Service
The Blog Wrangler includes maintenance. As soon as a new version of WordPress is available, your blog will [...]
February 8, 2008 – 2:28 pm
Watch on YouTube
Beet.tv has a wonderful small-dog story about a New Jersey wine merchant who has been creating daily wine-tasting videos. He outranks big names like Wine Spectator and gets twice their traffic.
Really shows the power of niche video!
Here’s the kicker: he’s been doing this for two years. That’s a lotta video.
February 8, 2008 – 7:52 am
I was approached by a prospective client recently for help with their blog. Problem was, their problem wasn’t their blog — it was their sales process and their products & services. They were getting hurt on price because they couldn’t reach the decision-makers until their message had already been weakened by gatekeepers so that it [...]
February 7, 2008 – 11:36 am
Author, speaker, and consultant Steve Yastrow, an expert in cultivating customer relationships, recognizes the power of blogs to help foster and strengthen customer relationships. Steve frequently writes for the Tom Peters blog, and is the author of two books, Brand Harmony and the newly published We: The Ideal Customer Relationship.
Why a blog?
Steve’s a master [...]
February 6, 2008 – 10:01 am
Blogs Bridge Business and Social Media: watch directly on YouTube.
This is me experimenting with unscripted blathering. I figured at some point I would say something useful, and I think I may have. I mercifully edited everything else out.
Here’s the takeaway: blogs are bridges into social media for business.
I mean, let’s face it, [...]
February 5, 2008 – 11:51 pm
Found via Beet.tv, which you want to subscribe to if you want to keep up with what’s happening in online video. At the beginning of the year, I predicted that live mobile video blogging is going to be big (not that it takes a genius or anything to figure that out).
How big? How about [...]
February 3, 2008 – 2:15 pm
This straightforward (and long) post will tell you step-by-step how to get started video blogging with a simple webcam. Video blogging is growing in popularity as the tools for it become easier to use and less expensive. You don’t need expensive equipment to get started. In fact, you can get going for less than $40 [...]
February 1, 2008 – 5:47 am
And this is almost immediately after the last overheard in the blogosphere post, in which I had… what? a whole three quotes?
Where are all the viral videos for Hillary or McCain?
Erick Schonfeld
Social media participation is not a one night stand, it’s a stable relationship.
Tadeusz Szewczyk
To continue on with my series on ridiculous blog posts from [...]
