This is a guest post by James Chartrand of Men with Pens, and is the first guest post for Guest Post Week here at Remarkablogger.
Setting up a blog for your business can produce phenomenal results. You can increase your client base, show off your work, boost your credibility and tell people more about your [...]
RSS stands for Really Simple Syndication, and it’s a way to automatically receive updates from news sources you subscribe to using special software called a reader.
Twitter is a micro-blogging platform that limits posts to 140 characters, but allows for replies and direct messages. Each post is an answer to the question “What are you doing?”
How [...]
Last week I wrote a guide for how to move from WordPress.com to a self-hosted setup. Some of the comments on that post were so helpful that I wanted to highlight them in a new post.
Lid said:
Great post Michael - thanks!
One thing I did want to mention - because we have just had huge [...]
March 21, 2008 – 11:33 am
Twitter must be reaching some kind of critical mass–or at least it seems that way to me. Perhaps that’s because I’ve jumped in with both feet. But I get the impression that a lot of bloggers are blogging about Twitter, lately. Some of them love it, and can’t live without it, and some folks aren’t [...]
I’m tired of reading about crap that people don’t put into practice. I know too much about what goes on behind the blogging scene.
Bloggers don’t often practice what they preach.
Harrison McLeod
The blog acts as a long, long presentation—as long as a potential client wants it to be, really—with absolutely no pressure, since folks can just [...]
It’s not too much trouble to move your blog from the free, hosted WordPress.com platform to your own web server. When you have your blog on your own server, we say that it is self-hosted to note the difference from having it hosted on WordPress.com. Some folks will call this using WordPress.org, but WordPress.org is [...]
Blogging is easy, right? Anybody can do it! Just write a post and click Publish.
Not really.
Look, I LOVE BLOGGING. And I want every business owner and freelancer from here to the Ethereal Plane blogging, believe me. But I’m not going to get you there by pretending it’s easy when it isn’t. In a limited logistical [...]
March 14, 2008 – 12:15 pm
Jason Falls of Social Media Explorer posted an interview with Liz Strauss of Successful Blog. Liz is the main organizer behind SOBcon, happening this May in Chicago. I’ll be going, and if you can swing it, I think it would be a tremendous benefit to anyone.
Here are some of the highlights:
It’s small: only 250 [...]
When I found out that my friend Rebecca Leaman was a paid blogger for the Wild Apricot Blog, I knew this would be a great way to bring to light how business blogging and paid blogging can be related and benefit each other. There are two reasons to know more about this: one, many bloggers [...]
Let’s face it: Ecommerce sites are boring.
And yet, the people running them are often the most knowledgeable, passionate people on the planet about the products they sell. Maybe it’s the drudgery of dealing with the ecommerce system. Maybe it’s because people carry around in their heads some old ideas about how things are “supposed to [...]
Hi, everyone. I Liz Strauss was kind enough to ask me to write a guest post for her while she’s away at SxSW. I thought you might enjoy it. Please do check out all of her wonderful posts. She is a blogosphere “must-subscribe” for me, and I highly recommend her to you.
Here it is: Do [...]
In case you hadn’t noticed, video is kind of a big deal on the interwebs, now. It may have put the thought in your mind to do a video blog or start adding videos to your current blog. I’ve already written about how to get started video blogging, so what I want to do with [...]
Your business blog sucks because…
It’s duct-taped and stapled onto your existing site with no thought to how to integrate blog and web site or an overall redesign
It’s on Blogger, which makes you look cheap and/or like a spammer and nobody likes Blogger’s commenting system
It’s on TypePad, which means it’s probably ugly and because it’s hosted [...]
The thing is, people seem to be getting burned out on social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, but I have been running into non-techie folks who are starting blogs and loving it.
James Ohmdal
Think about it - if you haven’t “gotten around to it” in the last six months … what makes you think you’ll [...]
Which stands for Successful and Outstanding Blogger. For years, Liz Strauss has been highlighting bloggers at her highly social and influential Successful Blog. So I feel honored to have been named an SOB! First time anybody’s called me that… and I liked it!
My buddy Guilherme has written an excellent introductory article called Podcasting, videoblogging, and social screencasting tools and ideas. It’s a gem because it really delivers on both counts: tools and ideas. It’s more than just a list of links with some descriptions (cough, Mashable, cough cough) put together by virtual assistants (okay, that’s just a [...]
