Seems like I’m always telling my clients to find their competition – or go find some compatible blogs to buddy up to – or tap into other folks blogs to develop ideas for your own content (not steal, friends, just spread around generously with plenty of backlinks and attributions.)
How else is a person going to [...]

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 [...]

Recently, I got connected with Margot Potter who has a VERY fun and interesting blog for young, hip crafters called The Impatient Blogger. (Her craft brand is The Impatient Beader which I love because it’s so improbably … beading seems the essence of patience, doesn’t it? But who has it these days?) Check this out [...]

Reader Angela Wills had this to contribute on her experience getting listed on Technorati.
“I just recently got my blogs listed on Technorati and it wasn’t nearly as complicated as it all sounded when anyone tried to explain it to me!
Here is what I did:
1. Go to http://www.technorati.com and sign up for an account.
2. Followed [...]

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 [...]

And yet … another blog promo-networking site that shares content across the blogosphere. This one, called Postreach, invites you to join topic specific groups based on the personal invitation of a member. I personally like that filter, myself. That’s the one thing lacking, of course, in much automated blog-sharing.
Postreach’s auto-email to you, unpon invitation, [...]

Check out this contribution from reader Andrew Olson, about his new business, BusinessGears.com –
“… Basically the idea is that it allows bloggers from around the business blogosphere to contribute content from their blog, have that content edited & approved by our team and then be featured on the site. My company has used the [...]

Technorati Profile

But then neither is Pam Slim is you look under Pam Slim - but MAN there are a lot of porn-spam blogs in there. (Must be the word ’slim’ ?) My good buddy Andy Wibbels, however, is all over the place. There are even some funny videos of him. 
So how do you get yourself [...]

So is it just me or do blogs seem like they might be diminishing in MUST DO importance in people’s lives? I’m not saying that’s an accurate view … but just something in the air I kind of sense.
What’s your take on it? I mean, the fact is that blogs still carry real currency out [...]