Here's a Flikr slide show of SOBCon '07 for your viewing pleasure. Folks will be adding photos to it throughout the weekend. Thanks to Vernon Lun for putting it together for us. … Read more about SOBCon-07 Eye Candy
Arriving at SOBCon-07
Gorgeous and I arrived at the Sofitel Chicago O'Hare yesterday. Man what a nice hotel! We knew we were in good hands when the shuttle driver offered us a complimentary water for the 10 minute ride from the airport to the hotel. :) We met with some of the hotel staff and walked through the … Read more about Arriving at SOBCon-07
Heading to SOBCon Early
Today's the day. It's the day I've been looking forward to for a long time. Especially over the last several weeks, as things have been more and more dramatic around me I've been longing for this day to get here. Today Gorgeous and I get on a plane for Chicago for SOBCon '07. Well be … Read more about Heading to SOBCon Early
Embarrassed By the Drama
Why does life contain so many mini-dramas? I'm getting to the point where I'm starting to dread the question, "How's it going?" And it's not because things are particularly bad for me. It's just that whenever the answer to that question is expanded beyond a word or two lately it ends up being … Read more about Embarrassed By the Drama
Don’t Wait for the Funeral to Visit
Last week we had my father-in-law's funeral. It was heartening to my wife and I how many people made it out on a Friday evening to pay their respects and express their condolences. For most of the pre-funeral receiving time I stood at the head of the receiving line next to my wife. The line of … Read more about Don’t Wait for the Funeral to Visit
CREEating Value – 3 May 2007
CREEating Value - Periodically (in theory about once a week) I go through my feed reader and pull out a few gems that bring value to you as a business blogger. With over 70 million blogs out there finding a few that are worthy of making it to your feed reader can be a challenge. So I'm trying to … Read more about CREEating Value – 3 May 2007
Looking for the Saddle
First of all thank you so much for all of your thoughts and prayers as my wife and I walks through our current challenge. The support was heartening. Things went about as well as they could have this past week. Now I'm trying to get back in the saddle so I can dig out from being away for most … Read more about Looking for the Saddle
Away for a Bit
I will be away from the blog until next week sometime. We got a call this afternoon that my wife's father passed away. We are leaving early in the morning for Wisconsin. I'll get back to the blog after I return. Thanks for your understanding. … Read more about Away for a Bit
Business is About People not Stats
As we work through the current series on Promoting Your Blog with Social Networking Sites, it is important that we pause for a moment and remember that ultimately business is about people and not about stats. Business blogging is no different. Show Me The Money I've had discussions in the … Read more about Business is About People not Stats
Promote Your Business Blog with Social Networking Sites: MyBlogLog
We are going through some of the social networking sites that are out there and talking about how we can become active in them to help promote our businesses. Yesterday we talked about StumbleUpon. In the comments of that post Tony Clark pointed out an article on DoshDosh that gives a very … Read more about Promote Your Business Blog with Social Networking Sites: MyBlogLog
Promote Your Business Blog with Social Networking Sites: StumbleUpon
Over the next several days we are going to be talking about some of the different social networking sites out there and how we might be able to effectively use them to promote our businesses. Today we are going to be exploring one of my favorites StumbleUpon The first social networking site … Read more about Promote Your Business Blog with Social Networking Sites: StumbleUpon
What is Google Really Up To?
There is a brilliant new guest post up over at ProBlogger.net by Alister Cameron titled How Google Blogsearch ranks your Posts… In their own words! It's a long post, and very technical. Alister analyzes some of the wording found in Google's patent application a couple years back for their Blog … Read more about What is Google Really Up To?
