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Blogroll Scrubbing is Not Just for Girls

September 22, 2009
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Ok, I just stuck that video up there because it made me laugh. It also reveals a deeper question to ponder about product endorsements/reviews and how they can quickly turn to broken painful shells in one’s marketing plan. (Or at the bottom of one’s bathtub.)
Now, back to the topic of the day, blogroll-scrubbing. I recommend that you [...]

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Economy of Effort and Social Media

September 10, 2009
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As the success of using social media continues to rise, one of the key things to keep in mind is the “economy of effort” as it relates to the time you’re spending on all your social media endeavors.
Instead of trying to be active on all the grouplists, all the social media sites as well as [...]

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5 Tips for Building Your Blog Editorial Calendar

September 9, 2009
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If you think of your blog as an online magazine (which you should) then one of the best ways to beat bloggers’block is to create an editorial calendar for your blog posts. Organizing your blog topics and future posts in this manner will help inspire you to write more and kvetch less about having nothing [...]

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What is your Blog Grade?

September 1, 2009

Curious about how your blog is doing? Try out the BlogGrader by HubSpot and see what you can do to empower your blog’s visibility.

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Ride the Ferris Wheel at A Blog Carnival

September 1, 2009
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Blog carnivals started several years ago, and are still a great way to help promote your blog. Particularly if your blog is new, joining a blog carnival will help bring you some traffic and backlinks, and also helps you authentically promote other bloggers too.
A blog carnival as defined by BlogCarnival.com is “a collection of [...]

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10 Reasons For Writing Blog Posts

August 28, 2009

Here are my ten favorite things about writing a blog:
1. Instantaneous gratification after you’ve finished a post.
2. No writers’ block allowed or “blog block.” If you don’t have something to blog about – then take time out to thank or link to all those other peer blogs who inspire you.
3. Freedom from an editor or [...]

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Social Media is Not Your Personal Chia Pet (Part 2)

August 24, 2009

1. It takes time to grow your social media presence, it doesn’t happen overnight.
2. Make certain your expectations are in line with what is really happening in social media. Don’t expect 10,000 friends on Facebook the first month out.
3. Twitter count – quality is more important than quantity.
4. Establish a regular editorial calendar for [...]

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PR Says To Employ Mystery with Bloggers? Say What?

July 18, 2009
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Should bloggers be kept in the dark?

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Ten Ways to Break Bloggers Block

July 15, 2009
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Ten Ways to Break Bloggers Block…

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Nothing to blog about? That’s just stinkin thinkin…

July 15, 2009
stuart-smalley

Nothing to blog about? That’s just stinkin thinkin…

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Get your blog going with characters!!!

July 11, 2009

If you’re new to blogging and you want to come up with posts to inspire viewers to “read and click-forward” to friends, then one way to determine what you want to write for your readership is to look at characters in movies.
One of the tricks that screenplay writers often employ to avoid writer’s block is to write [...]

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Not one more word? Wrong answer!

July 9, 2009

id you know you can truly be the “master of your own PR domain,” when it comes to generating tweet-love, link-love and online book love?
Is it your dream that everyone mentions your book like they would a must-see movie?
The best way to have that happen is to put your creative thinking cap on and start writing!
“What?” you say.
“Write? I [...]

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