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Category: Remarkablogging

What Smurf Are You on Your Blog?

July 22, 2008 – 4:55 am

Remember the Smurfs? I wasn’t a kid anymore when the Saturday morning cartoons appeared, but I watched them anyway. For a while, Smurf mania swept the world. On a whim, I thought it would be fun to match the Smurfs to different kinds of bloggers.
So, if your blog were a Smurf, what Smurf would it [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (12)

How I Brought My Business Back from the Dead with Blogging

July 14, 2008 – 7:07 am

My worst fears came true. In the summer of 2004, before I was Remarkablogger, blog consultant, my business was different. It was also failing, bigtime. I was working as a contract instructor for a computer training company, but I wasn’t getting paid enough because they couldn’t sell enough training. Things were getting tight. We needed [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (32)

What Conversion Is, Why it Matters,
and How to Improve It

July 1, 2008 – 5:05 am

Conversion is one of the most important concepts you need to understand if you want your blog and your freelance business to succeed.
Conversion is when a website visitor does what you want them to. A website’s conversion rate is the percentage of visitors who do what we want them to do, or, convert. Your [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Conversion | Comments (13)

SEO Ninja Skills Prevent Armageddon

June 28, 2008 – 12:42 pm

A little while back I told you about this awesome book that explains search engine optimization (SEO) in plain English so anyone can become an SEO ninja. There’s even a ninja on the cover, and hey, who doesn’t love ninjas?

Maybe you looked at it and thought to yourself: “Looks good, and my search traffic really [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blog SEO | Comments (2)

3 Time Bomb Tips for Business Blogging
You Must Know

June 25, 2008 – 5:34 am

There are three things you can do right now that will yield benefits right away, but these tips are really time bombs. What do I mean by that? Keep reading, and all will be explained.
These tips are time bombs because they don’t reach a critical mass and “blow up” for you (in a good way) [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Also posted in Blogging Productivity | Comments (22)

Next Week is Guest Blogger Week on Remarkablogger

March 27, 2008 – 3:56 pm

Normally if I said I had a treat for you, it would consist of more ME. But what I’ve done instead is decided to have a week of guest bloggers, whom I have recruited through Twitter. You can look forward to some great posts from some other fantastic bloggers who are into everything from copywriting [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (7)

The Secret to Success on Twitter is the Same as Blogging

March 26, 2008 – 5:46 am

I’m going to tell you the secret to success on Twitter: it’s the same secret to success in blogging, which I find interesting, because successful bloggers almost to the person are also successful on Twitter (they have many followers and get a lot of value from it).
The problem people are having is that they sign [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (21)

Controversial Comment Policy Update

February 20, 2008 – 3:18 pm

A few days ago I changed my comment policy and it caused a bit of a stir, to say the least:
I’m getting annoyed.
I don’t like it when people put keywords where their name goes in the comments.
I know the tone of the post was, well, kinda bitchy, and the truth is that’s how I felt [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (29)

New Comment Policy: No Keywords in Comments

February 14, 2008 – 4:27 pm

I’m getting annoyed.
I don’t like it when people put keywords where their name goes in the comments. Aside from my personal preferences, it’s just not a good idea. Here’s why:

It makes it difficult for me to respond to you properly–how am I supposed to address you?
It makes you look like a cheap spammer. Don’t give [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (66)

What Apple Teaches us about Blogging

February 4, 2008 – 6:53 pm

What can a company that doesn’t blog teach us about blogging? Plenty, as you will see:

Don’t give people what they say they want… give them what they really want–what they didn’t even know they wanted.
Have a strong vision for who you are and what you’re doing, so that everything is an expression of that.
Design matters.
Branding [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (11)

Follow These 3 Simple Ideas and Your Long-Term Blogging Success is Guaranteed

January 31, 2008 – 9:23 pm

The best long term blog plan is to treat every single thing you do like you are planting a seed for the future.
The most important activity for long-term success is creating killer blog content.
The second most important activity for long-term success is to grow your network by providing value to others with no [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (7)

Launch a Profitable Freelance Business for Under $50

January 24, 2008 – 11:28 pm

My friend and rockstar freelancer Christine O’Kelly is one of the brightest and most passionate people I know. Her blog, Self-Made Chick is on my must read, must comment list. We’ve each helped the other with ideas that solve problems and find a way to success.
Well, now she’s done and gone put out her ebook, [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (6)

You Just Subscribed to Remarkablogger and Got Your Free Ebook - Okay, What Now?

January 22, 2008 – 2:26 pm

Wow. When I look at my subscriber count, now, I have to rub my eyes and make sure I’m not seeing things.
I have a ton of new readers who are going to decide very quickly whether or not they should remain subscribed after getting their little prize (oh yeah, people, I know how it [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (10)

My Recent Posts on Other Blogs

December 13, 2007 – 1:43 pm

Here’s what I’ve been up to on the other two blogs for which I write professionally, because I know you just can’t have enough ME in your life.
Pure Blogging

Forget About Advertising, Monetize Your Blog Through Consulting
The Big 30-Step List on Starting a New Blog

Blogging Tips

Are Your Automated Plugins Doing More Harm than Good?
Project [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (2)

I Have Big Hot Burning Desires

December 5, 2007 – 6:50 am

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I have a confession to make: I don’t have goals.
Wait, what? How can I not have goals and still be doing so well? My RSS subscriber count grows daily (250 262 last time I checked), my traffic is increasing, I get blog consulting jobs, and I’m having a [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (20)

What You Can Learn about Blogging from Boing Boing

December 3, 2007 – 6:33 am

You can learn a lot about how to blog from Boing Boing, one of the most popular and long-running blogs on the web. Boing Boing is one of my daily must-reads. They never write about how to blog, but if you look at what they do, you can learn a lot about what makes a [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (6)

Don’t Download the Attention Age Doctrine

November 29, 2007 – 12:52 pm

Every internet marketer is peeing all over themselves trying to get you to download Rich Schefren’s Attention Age Doctrine 2.
Don’t bother. At least, don’t bother until you’ve educated yourself a little more. For free.
Does he understand his own message?
As it turns out, Rich doesn’t seem to understand his own message. This book is only [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (14)

What You Can Learn about Blogging
from Britney Spears

November 21, 2007 – 1:53 pm

You can learn some valuable lessons about blogging from Britney. Don’t believe me? Please continue reading, O Skeptical One. Some of these are examples of what not to do, and some of them are positive. And yes, this is all a little tongue-in-cheek.

Looking good helps… a lot
I don’t mean you have to be physically good-looking [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (25)

5 Other Remarkabloggers You Should Know About

November 20, 2007 – 11:23 am

Who is really pushing things on their blog? Who stands out as really unique and remarkable? Not many, that’s for sure! Here are 5 that are in my reader that I think deserve a little link love. Some of them have just begun blogging, while others have been around for a bit.
On Moneymaking
On Moneymaking [...]

By Michael Martine, Blog Consultant | Comments (14)