Create a Business Out of Your Blog and Make Real Money is the newest post up at Gateway Blogging. Gateway Blogging is an online learning program I am building right now that will teach you how to effectively blog for your business, which will get you more business and increase your profits.
Gateway Blogging will [...]
Since I announced this promotion and had two drawings, I’ve had two winners. That means there are four spots left, and I just drew new numbers! If you have my business card from SOBCon 08 and one of the numbers in the headline is on the back, you have won an hour of free phone [...]
Meeting and talking with Brian Clark of Copyblogger and Teaching Sells was one of the highlights of SOBCon 08 for me. Brian is one of the nicest dudes you could ever meet. He answers a question I had for him after he had just delivered his presentation: what was the most important take-away point from [...]
Photo credit: First People
A blog pack is my way of describing a group of bloggers who agree to help each other:
Get established
Build personal networks
Increase traffic
Increase RSS subscribers
Get organic backlinks
Being part of a blog pack helps you and your fellow pack members get some momentum going for your blogs together as a group. It’s a [...]
How to get comments on your blog:
Don’t write for your 8th grade teacher she’s not reading your blog.
You never give a complete top ten list (put 7, the audience will think of the other 3).
Blog your experience.
Most important sentence in a blog post is the last one: ask a question (and know your own answer).
Liz [...]
David Bullock gave a rockin’ presentation on business development.
Speak/Write the Process
Determine Outcome of every step
Set the Sequence
do the Process
Refine the Process
Rinse, Repeat
Flowcharting tools:
flowchart.com
simpleflowchart.com
gliffy.com
Your Major Marketing Channels
Your customers
Your List
Your Identity (offline, online, speaking, podcasts)
Your Successes
Internet
Offline
What Are They Saying…
About You
About your company
About your service
Your audience will educate you with feedback - positive or negative will teach you.
Repeat yourself, reiterate, people learn through repetition.
It’s difficult to be brief, do your best, put real thoughts out there, pose questions.
A really good question is often better than a good statement
Generating Content
Keep notes
Mind maps are useful
Business Process
You can get content out of [...]
Brian Clark delivered a fantastic presentation on business models. This is really important for people who are starting a business or looking for ways to expand a current effort. This will be especially helpful for freelancers and small businesses. It fits in well with the coaching component of the blog consulting services I sell.
Often, people [...]
Anita Bruzzese speaks about online reputation management and journalistic standards which bloggers can benefit from. I’ve said in the past that blogging has a lot to learn from journalism (and vice versa).
What is the source of your information?
You are known by the company you keep (links and blogroll)
Is the information credible?
How do handle corrections? Make [...]
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 [...]
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 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 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, [...]
January 28, 2008 – 8:37 am
Watch on YouTube.
I believe that if you’re going to participate in social networks, you have to truly join in and be a part of them or you will not get much benefit for your blog at all.
Major points:
People don’t care about your blog.
But… given half a chance, they might care about YOU.
So I don’t [...]
January 23, 2008 – 12:53 pm
What should a band or musician blog include, irrespective of the kind of music the band is about? I’ve made a short list of items you want to be sure to have on your band or musician blog:
Performance Schedule
Your band’s blog is information central for your fans, so make sure you keep it updated. You [...]
January 11, 2008 – 11:38 pm
Blogs have come a long way since the late nineties, but most people still don’t really know much about them. The terminology confuses them. They have absolutely no desire to leave comments, and don’t know why anyone would. All the widgets in the blog sidebar are incomprehensible.
There are millions of people online who barely know [...]
January 5, 2008 – 7:25 pm
My big prediction for 2008: blogs rule. Blogs will grow tremendously in the categories of:
Political
News
Business
Mobile
Video
Political
In 2007, we saw a noticeable increase in the power of blogs and social/new media as they now play a more important role in American politics. I think 2008 is when web and grass-roots campaigns are going to really start fighting [...]
January 5, 2008 – 6:47 pm
My recent post on the Success of my client’s blog Nursing School Programs must have got some people thinkin’. And thinkin’ is dangerous, because it leads to self-improvement. Anyhoo, I got a question from someone via my contact form:
There are a couple of Wordpress blogs that you offer - are they ones that allow [...]
December 26, 2007 – 10:02 am
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Facebook is the most worthless waste of time ever?
Facebook is so maddeningly useless to me, I just can’t stand it anymore. I don’t want to be poked, bitten by vampires, sent drinks, find out if my movie tastes are like someone else’s, join a group for [...]
December 19, 2007 – 4:57 pm
There are plenty of food blogs online, but what makes for a really good food blog? Maybe you’ve been thinking about starting a food blog or you’ve recently started a food blog. What should you do? Learn from other food blogs, that’s what!
Pick a Specific Sub-Niche
There’s a lot of food out there! Sure, a food [...]
December 17, 2007 – 9:37 am
The Carnival of Business and Entrepreneurship 3 is up over at Bootstrapper. My recent post on The Secret to a Successful Business Blog: Sell without Selling is on the list, but there are many other rockin’ links for you to get your biz on. I was going to list some of them, but really you [...]
November 27, 2007 – 1:50 am
Recent Posts at Blogging Tips
I have a paid writing gig at Blogging Tips, a team blog with a prodigious output of helpful blogging tips every day (it does what it says on the tin, as I like to say). Here is my author page, and here are my recent posts from there:
How a Blog is [...]
November 19, 2007 – 7:37 am
If your blog had a flavor, what would it be? This is totally just for fun. The thought of a blog having a flavor just popped into my head (in that space where my brain is supposed to be). I took 10 well-known blogs and wrote down my first reaction for what flavor each one [...]
November 7, 2007 – 6:09 am
One Million Business Owners
One of my blog coaching clients is business coach Greg Balanko-Dickson. Greg’s the author of two books and has been involved in business and been a successful business coach for many years. In the interest of disclosure, Greg is also my business coach, and we are engaging in a joint venture for [...]
October 10, 2007 – 11:38 am
Why should artists blog? I see three important points as a possible answer to this question:
- Artists want their work to be seen and appreciated
- Artists seek to understand and evolve their art
- Elimination of technical barriers
September 14, 2007 – 6:12 am
Some fantastic links this week, especially on WordPress security. But also links to free ebooks for bloggers, internal linking, the future of Google Reader, and more!
September 7, 2007 – 5:43 am
It’s a special weekly Better Blogging Link Blast! This week, it’s the WordPress Plugin Pileup! All the links are to super-useful WordPress plugins. Featured are plugins for WordPress security and managing comments. Enjoy!
August 31, 2007 – 7:53 pm
End of the month wrap-up of the best that was August 2007! The best posts, links, and commentators.
August 31, 2007 – 6:29 pm
On Blog Day, you post a link and a short description of 5 blogs that are new to you which are, ideally, different from your own in terms of country, content, and attitude. Here are my 5.
August 31, 2007 – 6:21 am
John Chow has a great article on using Facebook to increase RSS subscription numbers.
For your meta link of the week (a link in a link list to a link list) I have a good one from LinkJuicy: a big list of link blogs.
Young Go Getter releases a WordPress plugin you didn’t know you needed: Douche [...]
