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October 14, 2009 ·
If you are looking for some tips on how to get started with video on your blog you might want to check out the guest post I did yesterday over at Blog for Profit.
Grant Griffiths is someone I consider a friend, even if he is a lawyer by training. He’s the owner of [...]
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October 7, 2009 ·
Most people agree that much of our everyday communication is non-verbal. The common number thrown around is 93% because of some study in California back in the 70’s. Seems high to me because words are important. But hey, I’m not in California. Or in the 70’s.
Regardless a whole bunch gets left out when just looking [...]
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Chris on
October 5, 2009 ·
If you feel you don’t have time to add blogging for your business into your already overflowing schedule there is some good news. Writing posts for your business blog is easier than you think.
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April 15, 2009 ·
Spam is the scourge of the internet. Depending on which source you want to use, somewhere between 80-99.9% of all email is spam. Akismet, the most widely used WordPRess spam filter, shows that right now 83% of comments are spam on blogs running their plugin. That means that only 17% of blog comments are legitimate, [...]
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November 29, 2008 ·
We all know that getting inbound links, links from other web sites linking in to yours, is an important part of marketing your blog and raising your authority and rankings in the search engines. There are all kinds of ways to encourage other bloggers to link to you, but ultimately the best way to get [...]
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November 3, 2008 ·
Last week I alluded to an upcoming announcement. Today I’m thrilled to announce that I have joined Skinny Moose Media as their new Community Development Director.
Between their Skinny Moose blog network and their US Hunting Today brand they have just over 100 websites in their community generating nearly a million page views a month.
As Community [...]
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October 22, 2008 ·
There are two types of people who tend to know how to drive traffic on the internet. And the top players in both categories know how to drive massive traffic.
Interestingly enough historically there hasn’t been much of any crossover between the two groups. In fact, the two groups tend to look on one another with [...]
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August 6, 2008 ·
This has been a sad week for the blogging world. KnowMoreMedia, a major blog network with over 100 blogs focused on the business world, effectively went out of business as of Thursday.
Well, they laid off all their employees anyway. I suppose technically that’s not exactly the same thing as going out of business.
But it might [...]
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July 15, 2008 ·
I flew out late last week to join Gorgeous in Dallas at the eWomenNetwork annual national conference. I bought the latest Technology Review to read on the flight because the current issue is all about social media and the future of Web 2.0, which is obviously something I’m interested in.
On page 56 is an article [...]
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June 28, 2008 ·
One of the big reasons we have web sites and blogs is to generate traffic. I mean why put up a site unless want people to see it, right?
Yet some people insist on adding this traffic repellent to their sites and then wonder why they never see more than a handful of visitors.
Smelling Fishy
When folks [...]
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