Posts Tagged ‘blog’

10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog

A couple months ago, I wrote a newbie’s guide to blogging to help you get started with blogging. If you’ve been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to “pimp” your blog, both in the sense of “tricking out” your blog to make it more attractive and more useful… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, community, marketing, promotion | 30 comments»

Do You Read Too Many Blogs?

Ades of AdesBlog.com has a theory: that top bloggers don’t read other people’s blogs. To test his theory, he asked several big-name bloggers — Michael Arrington, Darren Rowse, Jeremy Schoemaker, and Yaro Starak — about their blog-reading habits. Except for Darren Rowse, they all said they read few or no blogs; Rowse said he subscribes to 700 but only skims the whole list occasionally… » Continue

April 21 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, Productivity, reading, rss, time-management | 35 comments»

The Newbie Guide to Blogging

We live in a blogging world. Whether you’re a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:

Make your name or brand visible
Connect with others in your business or interest
Reach out to the public about issues you’re passionate about
Express yourself
Update clients or an audience about projects you’re working on
Share your knowledge
Learn to write better
Share

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February 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, software, tool, web-app | 45 comments»

How To Brainstorm Domain Names

If you’re in the business of creating websites and registering domain names you will have encountered the all important question: What do we call it?

When starting a business, now-a-days, thinking of a name that could be registered as a domain is very important [if you will operate a lot on the web]. That said, availability of a name shouldn’t compromise what you are actually trying to achieve with the… » Continue

June 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, branding, business | 12 comments»

Web Publisher, Internet Author “To Don’t” List

The internet is permeated with thousands of “to do” lists. In fact, if you are an author or publisher in the electronic realm you can get so caught up in completing your “to do” list that you never actually get to do much writing and publishing.

So, as I have a propensity for being a jerk reverse engineering, I’ve put together a little “to don’t” list to help nudge us… » Continue

June 18 2007 | By Reginald | Tagged: blog, todo | 13 comments»

Get A Big Book Deal From Your Blog

Many bloggers are signing off publishing deals these days - and double congrats to them! But you may ask yourself, how did they do it? How do you take your blogging to people who actually read books still?

Brazen Careerist, Penelope Trunk - who has released a successful book herself - has written 10 things to keep in mind. It’s not about how to literally take your blog posts to… » Continue

June 15 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, book | 2 comments»

Maximum Exposure for your Business or Blog

Something Old, Something New: The Press Release

Businesses have been using the press release as a marketing tactic for forever. So why haven’t you used it for your blog or business yet? Maybe because the press release lives in the old offline world. It’s important to remember that there are many people who are still plugged into this world, so why not go after this area? Most blogs and many… » Continue

June 13 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blog, business, marketing, media | 18 comments»

101 Blogging Resources

Ah, another 101 list. You’ll remember our 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger and 101 Essential Freelance Resources from FreelanceSwitch.

This one is a well organized list of resources to get your blog running hot.

Although having 101 essential items of anything is a bit overkill, this is more a comprehensive list of options for hosting, managing and promoting your blog.

101 Essential Blogging Resources - [Blogtrepeneur]… » Continue

May 25 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, blogging | 2 comments»

Using Technorati’s WTF to Promote your Blog

DoshDosh.com is trying an experiment to utilize Technorati’s ‘Where’s The Fire’ voting thingamajig to promote blogs. WTF is set up to provide informative blurbs of popular Technorati searches so to keep everyone in the loop, I guess.

What it really looks like is a Digg-style addon. Either way, it’s worth looking into to improve your site’s traffic.
Here’s all the really basic stuff about how to get started.
1. First, visit Technorati’s… » Continue

April 6 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, promotion, technorati | 1 comment»

Writing Apps for Bloggers

Although you can write your articles in Microsoft Word or any such software, you might want to test the waters for some alternatives. Online and offline, there is a plethora of options in the blog editing/word processing field.

ScribeFire

Previously run at Performancing.com this editor runs within your Firefox browser as an add-on. There is no inline spellcheck, but if you get Google Toolbar for Firefox, you can enable… » Continue

April 4 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, editing, writer, writers, writing | 18 comments»

Find great content with Blog Strings

If you enjoy reading or writing blogs, Blog Strings is a site worth checking out. Blog Strings promises to connect bloggers and readers on one site. The site is free for readers and bloggers and the idea is that readers can find great blogs and bloggers can promote their blog. Seems like a win-win. Let us know what you think the comments.

Blog Strings is a new… » Continue

April 3 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: blog, content, search, Technology | 3 comments»

Beginner’s Guide: Start a blog, get 100,000 page views and make over $100 your first month

If you’re a blog reader, chances are you’re also an aspiring blog writer. Launching a for-profit weblog is extremely attractive because it has the potential for endless profit with practically no overhead. Launching a blog is a quick and easy process even for the absolute beginner. The following is what I learned from my pre-lifehack.org blog in which I earned over $100 and received over 100,000… » Continue

March 28 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: blog, Communication, Money, writing | 49 comments»

The 4 Motivations for Blogging

It can be said that the days of blogs just being writings from a particular person’s viewpoint are fading. Blogs nowadays take more of a general or subjective stance, while still remaining, in most cases, personal in nature.

Tom Haskins has come up with four distinct types of blog writers and where their motivations lie. It’s interesting to read since a blogger, or any writer really, must keep in mind who… » Continue

March 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, blogging, writing | 3 comments»

10 Ways To Good Blog Branding

The sequel to Chris Garrett’s choosing a domain name article is all about keeping your brand for your blog. You’ve got the name, you’ve got the idea - now let’s make sure not to throw things out the window.

1. Be Consistent. [The] Number one way to damage your brand is through inconsistency. Your brand is how people think about you, your product or your company. Through your words

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February 21 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, blogging, blogs | 3 comments»

Six Improvements to Your Blog

I’ve done a lot of blog surfing lately, in search of new (best) blogs. What I found often, however, was that there are things people could do to improve the relationship and interaction value of their blogs, which would in turn build a better bridge between blogs and their readers.