Recently a reader posted a question on how he could make money from his podcast. One of the experts who weighed in on podcasting on my free call last week, Leesa Barnes, assisted with this reply:

There’s alot of debate on the right way to make money in podcasting. Here’s some resources for Shawn so he [...]

One of the real catch-22’s in the net marketing world is that to get known on a larger level you need to find audiences — live or virtual ones … but how do you attract an audience until you’re well known?
Thanks to the magic of the Internet, it’s a lot more doable than you probably [...]

Last night I got filled to the brim with inspiration about podcasting. I hosted a free teleclass with two experts, Tim ‘Gonzo’ Gordon and Leesa Barnes are podcasting muskateers who have beaten the path that we all must now follow.
And must we should! Here are some great tidbits I learned last night that make [...]

Last spring at a conference, I attended a talk by uber-blogger Debbie Weil. Debbie was speaking to the assembled group of publishing marketing professionals about blogging in general, and I was interested to hear her comments. During the talk, she responded to an audience comment about what I call ‘fresh versus canned’ posting.

And she clearly [...]

Here’s this from reader Kammie K on what she does to elicit comments with her blog posts.
“The only other tip I would add that has done wonders for my readership is to RESPOND back to comments that readers leave. I write for a couple of blogs and now the readers are cross referencing and [...]

Want to build a large loyal audience of excited fans? Want to really get known as an expert in your field? Want to make your own contribution helping people overcome something only you can offer?
Then there is one totally critical thing you absolutely must know: your audience.
This is always where my coaching starts, because [...]

One of my very gung-ho platform builders, Tammy Lenski, has a cool new keyword search tool to recommend to all of us. She wrote:
HitTail (www.hittail.com) tracks Google, Yahoo and MSN searches that result in a hit to your blog, via a piece of tracking code you place in your blog files.  Nothing new there, [...]

Recently on my Blast O Joy blog, I posted about Fran Decker, a Key West, FL painter who is creating a good living selling her work on the Web. In the post I talked about Fran’s various marketing choices and opportunities as a working artist. And that gave some artists who read this blog pause [...]

Recently I got a question from my reader, Sheilah Vance, about how to elicit more comments from visitors on your blog. Reader comments are important because they ‘count’ as refreshed content with the SE robots who are always crawling the web.
These are the very same robots who determine your placement in the Google and [...]

I often sing the praises of Typepad here as my preferred blogging platform. It’s fast, easy and wonderfully customizable … all good, except that unlike Word Press, the blog you create lives on the Typepad server. So you get a URL that looks like  YOURRBAND.typepad.com with a bunch of other funny numbers and symbols.
Not [...]