The question often comes up around here just what the well-dressed blog should wear. Here’s my short list, to apply in any configuration that suits your fancy. This is what you need on your blog to serve media and the public alike.
Must Have
Media Room with bi, article ideas, list of media mentions, headshot
Brand + USP [...]

My PR guru, Nancy Kirk, has been coaching me on how to make my New Age guru alter ego, Serenity Hawkfire, a household name via the web. (Yeah, even people like me who teach people how to get known enjoy a fresh marketing perspective!)
Problem: Serenity is a multi-faceted creation. There’s the interactive theater piece (a [...]

Want to have fun on your blog? Get a FLIP camera, start to shoot film and knock yourself out … the cheap, fast and easy way! A FLIP camera is this cool, tiny camcorder that sells for about 100 dollars (US), and comes with a snappy little USP hook up on that plugs right into [...]

You know, the bitch about blogging is that ya gotta keep it up! When I don’t my readership goes south, Google and Yahoo forget about me, and the media gets suspicious.
I know this for a fact as I recently landed a nice column for my parody New Age guru, Serenity Hawkfire. But her blog wasn’t [...]

Got this question recently. A listener, after a call I did with Lynne Klippel’s Book Marketing Blitz:
“I am an expert in 4 different areas: 1. Parenting and family relations; 2. Wellness and abundance; 3. Memoir writing and self publishing; 4. Caregiving and end-of-life. I am creating specific blogs to address each area …
The one unifying [...]

Question: How do you get more people to comment on your posts? Write more provocative posts, of course. Or … if you are like the folks at Click Comments … add more mechanical bells and whistles that may or may not prompt them to do so.
Since you’re reading this blog, you may notice a format [...]

As my next session of the Extraordinary Business Builder’s Club approaches, I’m busy building my stable of blog designers to refer folks to.
Pam Slim – my star pupil and sometimes partner in this endeavor – has kindly provided Typepad’s list of preferred blog designers in the US
http://thehughpage.com/Blog_Designers#USA
Anybody have a blog designer or coder to share [...]

Jeff Faller (not to be confused with my cousin, Jeff Falter) recommended the following as a good source for RSS feed buttons. Thanks Jeff!
I’d actually recommend using Add This for your RSS Subscription buttons. It lets your readers subscribe to your feed via a simple, two step process that includes 20 or so readers [...]

My blog guru, the great Andy Wibbels, author of Blog Wild, had some tweaks and suggestions to a recent post I did on preferred plug ins on Word Press.

Here’s what he likes for analytics.
Here’s a ping generator for future posts.
Spam-prevention software he uses.
Software that removes curly quotes which can break feeds etc
All [...]

OK, blog wonks and others. It’s time to dig into the vast possibilities of the Word Press platform for blogs. This (potentially) free interface comes with many reasons to love it – enough that we’re actually turning this blog from Typepad over to Wordpress this week. So my blogmaster, Peggy, asked me to identify which [...]