At SOBCon 08, I’m running a promotion to give away $420 worth of blog coaching! I’m going to hand out my business card to just about everyone I can. On the back of each card will be written a number. After SOBCon has ended, I’ll randomly choose three numbers–three people will win.
Each person wins one [...]
You’ll want to watch this one full-screen — click the arrows at the upper right of the video.
I’ve had some interesting conversations with clients and others who are having a difficult time really understanding how to use Twitter–even some basic things like what is all the stuff on the screen.
I realized there’s some assumed [...]
Amy Smith wanted her original site, The Business of Motherhood to have a blog. Like many people, Amy created the Mom-Tini Lounge blog on WordPress.com. But suddenly, the limits and restrictions of the free blog hosting service were far too constrictive for what she wanted to do with the growing motherhood blog.
In what is fast [...]
Sorry
Sorry, but I didn’t Stumble your post, even though you asked nicely and you’re my friend. Why didn’t I? After all, it was a great post about overcoming addiction.
Sorry, but I didn’t Digg your post, even though normally I would do so. But I didn’t touch your Digg submission, which was a news article about [...]
This post is part 2 in a series. Part 1 is here.
Choices you have when starting a Web site
The technical choices you have when starting a Web site can be overwhelming. The situation isn’t helped by shady characters trying to rip you off and well-meaning but ignorant Web designers who don’t know as much as [...]
Feed readers: watch this video at Vidder: Is the Word Blog Holding Us Back?
Is the word “blog” holding us back?
It might be. The problem with “blog” and “blogging” is that these words are connected to a specific technology or tool. The tool itself is a means to an end. What is that end? I believe [...]
Readers have asked me how I’ve been making my videos, lately. I’ve been “Flipping!”
The Flip Video Ultra is the new camera I recently bought. I’ve been using it to record all my videos, lately. Web cams, which I recommended before as a cheap start to video blogging, ain’t got nothing on the Flip. Because the [...]
They’re the only guys in a bar on a Sunday morning. The bartender tries to make some conversation with them. He asks the Internet marketer what he does for a living.
The Internet marketer says to the bartender, “I’m in Internet marketing.”
“Oh, really?” says the bartender. “You sell internet service?”
“No,” says the Internet marketer as straightens [...]
Don’t click that publish button!
Blogging seems so easy in some ways. Hey, you just splat something out onto the screen and click Publish, right?
No.
Hell, no.
Consider:
Did I just write something for my target audience?
Did I just write something they really want to hear?
Am I adding to my legacy? (in other words, am I [...]
I’ve gotten to the point where I no longer care if people rip my content because it all ends up coming back to me anyways
Aaron Brazell
I am a vagrant in San Francisco and I have been receiving free voicemail from GrandCentral. I cannot overstate how inconvenient this outage has been for me.
Fortunately, the free wifi [...]
Would you like to finally be able to understand and decide your options for starting a Web site for your business? That’s what I’m going to help you with in this article.
Trying to figure out what kind of Web site your business should have is tough. The choices are endless and the technology is [...]
This is a guest post by AJ Vaynerchuk. Go visit his blog when you’re done reading it and show the man some love!
Twitter can be a great tool for keeping up with friends, hearing the latest news, and self-promotion. There are a ton of “big-name” bloggers using twitter, but not all of them are optimizing [...]
In my work as a blog consultant, I often add a blog onto a client’s existing site. Sometimes, this involves moving a WordPress.com blog to a self-hosted solution. Sometimes, it involves changing the underlying hosting platform from Windows to Linux, because that’s what WordPress runs on.
The Sticking Point - Original Site Design
The sticking point for [...]
Twitter is like sex. You can read all the stuff (or look at it) about sex all you want, but if you’ve never had it, you simply have no idea what it’s like.
And once you’ve had sex, you know you could never hope to really explain it to someone else. You will sound like a [...]
Leave imperfections, tolerate incompleteness.
I often remove up to a third of my points so that commentators could make those points. If all that’s left to say in a comment is “nice post” you’ve failed!
Last week on Lid’s guest post (What Public Relations 1.0 Teaches Us About Business Blogging), Deb mentioned in the comments that [...]
The danger I see is this: if we’re suckers for aspirational marketing at every turn it becomes easy to start treating those posts like comfort food. We feel as if a given post or blog is worth the time investment because it makes us feel like we’re becoming better at something, but if you never [...]
Note: somehow the wrong video wound up on Viddler compared to YouTube when I first posted this. This is now the correct video.
I think blogging is a form of social media. When The Cluetrain Manifesto first came out, one of its most important and enduring tenets was: markets are conversations. We use that phrase all [...]
Here’s a recap of last week’s wonderful guest posts, along with the blogs of those who wrote them:
Monday: 13.2 Blogging Challenges and How to Overcome Them
James Chartrand of Men with Pens wrote about how we can bust through some of the challenges we face as bloggers. Nobody seemed to get that the headline was a [...]
Guest Blogger Week continues at Remarkablogger with Joel Williams of Blog Tech Guy
With the launch of Wordpress 2.5 many things in the Wordpress admin dashboard have changed. However some things remain the same, and one of those is how each part of a Wordpress post affects what is displayed on your blog. For ease of [...]
Guest Blogger Week continues here on Remarkablogger, with Lidija aka Lid of BlogWell.
Good marketing, regardless of the vehicle that is used to push it out, is all about effective communications.
One of my favorite books is Ogilvy on Advertising (1983) by David Ogilvy. In it, he points out that in 1983 he was still using many [...]
Guest Blogger Week continues on Remarkablogger with Bob Younce of The Writing Journey.
Dooce.
Pioneer Woman.
Skellie.
What do all of these bloggers have in common? Simply put, they are their blog’s brand. If Heather sold Dooce tomorrow, she’d lose a good number of her loyal readers. We go to dooce to see Heather, not to learn about her [...]
Guest Blogger Week continues Remarkablogger with Patricia Mayo of ComHacker and Nowsourcing.
photo by Andrzej Pobiedzinski
Traffic strategies are like a good steak. You can set up your blog to sizzle for a couple days and get those rare traffic spikes, or you can let it simmer on low for a while and go for visitors that [...]
Guest Blogger Week continues on Remarkablogger, with Naomi Duford of IttyBiz
Recently, I spent an incredible sum of money on the PlayStation game Rock Band. While this new addition to my living room has probably caused both my business and my blog to suffer — like Twitter, Rock Band shares many traits with crack — it [...]
