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What Smurf Are You on Your Blog?

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 [...]

How I Brought My Business Back from the Dead with Blogging

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

SEO Ninja Skills Prevent Armageddon

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 [...]

3 Time Bomb Tips for Business Blogging
You Must Know

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) [...]

Next Week is Guest Blogger Week on Remarkablogger

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 [...]

The Secret to Success on Twitter is the Same as Blogging

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 [...]

Controversial Comment Policy Update

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 [...]

New Comment Policy: No Keywords in Comments

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 [...]

What Apple Teaches us about Blogging

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Launch a Profitable Freelance Business for Under $50

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, [...]

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

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 [...]

My Recent Posts on Other Blogs

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 [...]

I Have Big Hot Burning Desires

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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 [...]

What You Can Learn about Blogging from Boing Boing

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 [...]

Don’t Download the Attention Age Doctrine

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 [...]

What You Can Learn about Blogging
from Britney Spears

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 [...]

5 Other Remarkabloggers You Should Know About

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 [...]