How do you market your blog?
I’m sure you’ve heard it before, but ‘Blogging is a conversation’.
I’m not sure who should be credited with originally saying that (if you know, leave me a comment!), but it’s without doubt, the best definition of blogging that I’ve seen. Blogging is a conversation, as a blogger, we carefully craft our posts each day to [...]
If you’re putting a lot of energy into promoting your blog, then it’s in your best interest to do everything you can to make your visitors stick around once they find you. Having great content that is readily accessible is essential to keep them around for the long-term, but first impressions do count, and having [...]
The response to yesterday’s call of helping to get the word out for my new blog has been overwhelming silence, so it’s obvious that 200EC’s just don’t cut it or everyone using EntreCard is just chain-dropping as fast as they can and not taking notice of anything along the way!
So… given all that, I’m going [...]
I’m launching a new blog - one that I have been ‘getting ready’ for some time now, but I need your help to get the word out.
The blog is called Gamblz.com and it aims to connect online poker and casino players with social networking and blogging… it’s an area that the online gambling industry has [...]
Today’s episode of the Pessimists Guide to Blogging is about Challenges… those pesky little problems that we all have from time to time - I’m sure you know what I’m talking about, many people find it a challenge just to get out of bed in the morning (something I personally don’t have a problem with… [...]
If you’ve never seen any of the ‘in plain English’ videos from those awesome guys at CommonCraft, then you’re really missing out, they make some of the best videos I’ve seen for explaining social media concepts.
They’ve just released a new one about Social Media and Social Networking - as a blogger you probably understand these [...]
I’m starting a series of posts that I’ve decided to call ‘The Pessimists Guide to Blogging’… over the next couple of weeks (perhaps even longer if these posts are met with a little more than a dull dose of apathy), I’m going to look at one rather pessimistic view of the blogging life and see [...]
Australian Pro-Bloggers Darren Rowse, Karen Cheng and Neerav Bhatt were interviewed on mainstream Australian TV news today (shown on Channel 10, one of three main commercial TV channels shown Australia-wide).
The Interview focused on the increase in people working from home and making a great income from blogging - it was nice to see a brief [...]
One of my favourite bloggers is Seth Godin, I always find the time to read his posts.
Seth is a marketing mastermind, and while most of the topics he talks about are basic principles, they are things that many people get wrong and ones that we need to be constantly reminded of as bad marketing habits [...]
In the past couple of days FriendFeed have added ‘rooms’ to their service. Essentially a room is like a forum, except that you can manage it within your overall lifestream.
FriendFeed, for those who don’t know is a social media aggregator, it allows you to import all your social media feeds (blog RSS, twitter feed, facebook, [...]
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