Want to earn commissions for recommending products? Many sites or products offer affiliate commissions every time someone who clicks your link makes a purchase. [Note: actual affiliate link included in post for illustration purposes] Most Internet marketers make affiliate sales when they promote products to their email lists. Bloggers reap […]
Yearly Archives: 2007
174 posts
Thanks again to Ray Silverstein, founder of PRO for asking me to present a beginning business blogging seminar. What I learned: Blogging for business presentations need to be in at least three phases or levels: elementary for those who don’t know what a blog is, intermediate for those who have […]
Brendan Cooper, formerly [or AKA?] Friendly Ghost, published the November PR Power Index today. Back up after two months off, the index lists the top 100 PR blogs. Each time, Brendan comes up with a new ranking innovation. Here’s this month’s upgrade: "Now, I use the ImportHTML function in Google […]
BlogWord Expo’s Friday opening keynote speaker, Leo Laporte covered the future of new media publishing tools. This post is dedicated to Robyn Tippens [link with photo of Robyn Tippens presenting Leo Laporte with his Weblog Best Podcast Award] of MyBlogLog, whose enthusiasm for this presentation motivated me to get up, […]
In this session, the moderator guided the discussion among six panelists. Top takeaways . . . Good corporate blogs: Southwest, GM and Kodak. “A press release has no real business in the blog world. It’s about community, ranking, participating. Until you’re engaged at the level, you really have no clue.” […]
Speakers Wendy Piersall, Emomsathome Matt Colebourne, CoComment Dave Nalle, BlogCritics Great session – please share your impressions or thoughts about building an online community. The tone that Wendy sets in her posts is extremely personal. She stays appropriate and relevant. Because that tone is there, people are respectful. That personal […]
Update 11/14/07 Thanks to Liz Strauss for digging up the key/link to her writing tools treasure chest Stepping in – literally – at the last minute thanks to the suggestion of Wendy Piersall, Liz Strauss gracefully greeted her confused attendees by starting out with, “I’m not Brian Clark.” Scheduled to […]
Thanks again to Scott Allen for hosting the LinkedIntelligence Contest – and for awarding me the free registration and hotel at BlogWorld. Rick Calvert, BlogWorld Expo’s creator, donated the prize. Here’s a quick recap of Scott’s talk. Small business blogs are intended to support another business; moneytizing your blog tends […]
Typically, I talk about marketing and PR. While writing about computer recovery may seem a bit off-topic, having a functioning computer is a critical for many entrepreneurs. Let’s face it: if your computer isn’t working, neither is your business. No amount of marketing dollars or PR tactics can overcome the loss of technology. Here’s how I […]
Notes from BlogWorld’s opening keynote sesstion with Matt Mullenweg, founding developer of WordPress, founder of Automattic as interviewed by Ed Sussman FAST COMPANY Notes lightly edited from Barbara Rozgonyi’s notes. Matt tends to trust what he reads in blogs more than traditional media because it’s closer to the […]
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