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Speedlinking 24 May 2007
Mani shares a few tips on developing stickyness on a blog - read more on keeping first time readers on a blog in my previous series on the topic.Chris writes - Fear of Blogging, or What Bloggers Can Learn from Shakespeare.Technorati have announced a new look and ‘refreshed’ site in the last 24 hours.Blogg-Buzz is […]

Speedlinking - 20 May 2007
TypePad has added the ability to make pages and Blogger has added Auto Saving to it’s feature list - via Blogging Pro.Lorelle VanFossen has released her book on blogging - Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You about Blogging - looks like a good read.Steve Woodruff presents a post on How to Be Unremarkable - […]

ProBlogger Readers Do it Better . than Digg Users
Wendy writes a great post today in her introduction to Social Media Strategy and Socially Driven Content.In the post she talks to bloggers about why they should learn about social media, what results they can get and how to start out in it.What caught my attention was right down the bottom of her post where […]

Let Your Readers Do the Selling For You
Sometimes it’s best to let the readers of your blog recommend affiliate products instead of doing it yourself.As much as I often talk about blogs being a great way to build credibility and trust with your readers and how that credibility and trust can lead to nice returns when you recommend affiliate products - sometimes […]

A Process for Persuasive Blogging
Today I was digging through Joseph Sugarman’s ‘Advertising Secrets of the Written Word‘ and came across a section describing how he teaches students to work out the sequence of ad copy.Without rehashing the whole chapter his style is very much about identifying a reader need and then leading them through a logical process of asking […]

Speedlinking - 16 May 2007
Des asks - You’re a Nice Looking Blog - Who Owns You? - anonymous blogging anyone?Mani shares their 5 top mistakes when they started blogging (I think I could write a 50 part post on that topic )Daniel shares his Top 10 Underrated WordPress PluginChitika’s posted a little information about the ProBlogger group writing […]

Top 5 - Group Writing Project Day 3
Today’s Submissions to this week’s ProBlogger Group Writing Project have again blown me away (and proved to be quite a distraction for blogging, eating…. and getting out of my PJs!). In today’s batch there were 222 taking total participants in the project up to 596!There’s still time to enter the project - with around 24 […]

Blog Bash 07 - More details of New York Bloggers Day
I’m happy to announce some further details of the ProBlogger/b5media Blog Training Day and Meetup in New York that I’ve previously mentioned.Name - ‘Blog Bash 07′Date - 9 JuneTimes - 10am - 4.30pm for training and from 7pm til late for a Networking MeetupPrice - $100 USD or $75 early bird discount (includes the party) […]

Personal Branding and Blogging
One blogger that I think has done a good job of positioning himself as an expert on social media is Neil Patel. I’ve previously linked to quite a bit of Neil’s blogging at Pronet Advertising but in the last few days he’s also started a new blog called QuickSprout - a blog on personal branding.In […]

Personal Branding and Blogging
One blogger that I think has done a good job of positioning himself as an expert on social media is Neil Patel. I’ve previously linked to quite a bit of Neil’s blogging at Pronet Advertising but in the last few days he’s also started a new blog called QuickSprout - a blog on personal branding.In […]