Business Blog Awards 2005.While there are probably more than enough blog awards events taking place around the internet, business blogs have not been invited to the party.In fact, the absence of any mention of business blogs in the awards ceremonies...
Raise your sales with a great landing page
Website landing pages are often one of the most neglected sales points for many website owners. It doesn’t have to be that way. Landing pages are a powerful tool to increase a online business’s sales conversions. Turning even a few extra visitors into...
Blogging for celebrity
Blogging to gain celebrity is a misconception that many non-blogging people share.The idea that is circulating, and usually among those who have little or no concept of blogging, is people blog to become famous.While that possibility could be true in...
Visitor referrer logs: Keeping in touch
Visitor referrer logs are valuable records to examine, from time to time.In my case, and probably yours too, the visitor logs get more than one peek a day.Admit it.It's not just an exercise in ego or vanity to read your visitor log records.In fact, it...
Carnival of the Capitalists at Business Opportunities Webslog
This week sees an opportunistic turn for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a stop at a blog where new business ideas are the always the order of the day.This week's posts feature a business and...
Holiday havoc and seasonal fun
Have the holidays wreaked havoc on your blog's posting activities?Yeah, I know the feeling too.You want to write the best blog posting ever, especially after your festive dining with those...well...let's say...interesting relatives of yours.Yes, they...
Seasons Greetings
In this the holiday season, it's with joy that I wish all of my many readers and friends a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.I appreciate every one of your visits to my blogs, and I hope that I have provided some helpful bits of advice and encouragement...
Blog posting in the holiday season
Holiday season blogging is generally a slower time of the year. Many of your regular readers are either away, or preoccupied with family.Some of them might ven be trying to get away from that family preoccupation.In any case, your visitor totals will...
Computer update day
I hope I've seen the end of my computer difficulties.I have been plagues with computer programs, as my old Windows 98 system had been deteriorating. It had rested in this computer since October 1999.It was time for a change.It was trade in day.I spent...
Google is in a state of flux
Have you noticed a drop in your visitor traffic from the dominant search engine Google?While many of you don't keep track of every little burp and hiccup that Google emits, many bloggers are concerned.I am not worried, myself.I have also told my search...
Blog awards need to get the business
Blog awards shows or sites or whatever they are have a major flaw.I mean a huge, drive an eighteen wheeler through it sideways in a skid flaw.They never have a category for business blogs.Ever.They always hae about thirty-seven political blog categories.You...
Daily link roundup as a traffic builder
Bloggers are prolific linkers.In fact, many of the best known and most influential blogs are often built on daily links to various articles and blog posts.The power of a daily link roundup is the attraction of readers, who can find some interesting links...
Free business magazines are here for you
Everyone wants something for free.Well, here it is.I entered into an associate arrangement with an organization called TradePub. They distribute free business and trade magazines, on behalf of the magazine publishers. You can see the rotating magazines...
Carnival of the Capitalists goes to XTremeBlog
This week sees a technical turn for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists makes a stop at a blog where the technology world becomes not just a place for geeks anymore.This week's posts feature an extremely...
Blog Herald Christmas blog award judges named
The Blog Herald Christmas Blogging Awards have some judges to select the winning entries.The two well known bloggers chosen to decide the winners of Christmas spirit and a few cash prizes are my good friends Trudy Shuett of WOLves, and John Mudd of Inside...
Writers and blogging
Blogs sell books for writers.We see bloggers reviewing books all the time.In fact, bloggers are one of the truly sought after review groups on the internet. There are many good reasons for that to happen.Bloggers are seen by writers as being a fairly...
Blogging as a business: Preaching to the choir
Blogging as a business, in and of itself, is something near and dear to my heart.I admit to being a completely unabashed supporter, nay evangelist, of blogging. Posting about developing business blogs, and starting your own business with the blog as...
Entrepreneurship and small businesses
Entrepreneurship should be embraced by bloggers.Starting a small or micro-business should be at or near the top of the list of career goals for many bloggers. Perhaps, I should say small business ownership and the entrepreneurial ethic is part and parcel...
Blog posts as acts of necessity
Blog postings are often written more out of a sense of need than of conviction.Okay, instead of speaking in riddles like some cut rate mystic wannabe, tell us what you mean, Wayne.Well, if you insist. I do like to be coaxed once in awhile. Okay, a lot...
Blogger Idol entry: First dates
Blogger Idol is an ongoing non-competitive meme that I like to share. Each week, bloggers are invited to write a post on the week's surprise topic.This week's topic is "First Dates".Starting a blog, for the very first time, is very much like a first...
A blogger's search engine optimization day: SEO what!
Business blogs require some care and feeding.In that sense business blogs are like children, or pets without the shedding.Please, no bad e-mails or nasty comments. I was making a weak analogy. A blog isn't really like a child or a pet.But business blogs...
Business blogs: Boring writing perhaps?
Business blogs vary in their writing quality.We all are aware of that shortcoming in our business blogs. The very idea that a business blog should be interesting and (gasp!) even personal has come under some discussion lately.Aleah, best known among...
Birthday Carnival of the Capitalists at SamaBlog
This week sees a birthday party for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists, makes a stop, for the second time, at a blog where the eclectic meets the worlds of business and technology.This week's posts...
Controversial posts as the road to stardom
Blog posts can be very controversial.You can write about many devisive issues, where even the mere mention of the topic fills the blogger's heart with rage. Or at least some degree of passion.You can read controversial posts on a daily basis, and all...
Blog traffic lower on the weekends?
Blog traffic is usually lower on the weekends.Business blogs in particular, see a huge drop in visitor numbers on weekends, as many regular blog readers access the blogs at work.The problem for many business bloggers is to maintain traffic flows on Saturday...
Blogging as an industry
Blogging in general, and business blogging in particular, is poised to become a multi-million dollar industry.2003 and 2004 saw massive growth in the numbers of blogs in existence. Blogs are now commonly found discussed in both the mainstream media and...
The computer that came in from the cold
My wayward computer is back in action.I hope I have solved its myraid of difficulties, not the least of which is the fact that I have less RAM and an undersized hard drive on the old PC.My Windows 98 needs replacement. There is little doubt about that...
A Message From Wayne
Wayne asked me to let you all know he is having computer problems and will be back posting as soon as possible. ...
Computer problems and antiques
Computer problems are never pleasant.I have been having quite a few of them.Well, actually, I had a ton of them.I was adding a site to an alleged directory (from a reputable list) and since the list was created, the site was loaded with spyware. It was...
Blogging services auctions: Not on eBay
Blogging services auctions lasted about one entire month as an industry.Renting out your talents as a blogger is no longer permitted on the internet auction giant eBay.Jeremy Wright of Ensight, along with Darren Barefoot of DarrenBarefoot.com, successfully...
RSS feeds as the new viral marketing
RSS feeds may be the new killer app for sales and marketing.If you ask Kari Sullivan over at Greedy Girl, she won't even consider using an e-mail newsletter any more.She has gone over all the way to RSS.Kari says about the advantages of RSS over e-mail...
Blogger gifts of Christmas spirit
Christmas and blogging are not usually thought of in the same sentence.Well, maybe they are sort of related once a year, anyway.With Christmas and other holiday greetings arriving at this time of year, countless bloggers will be using Christmas as a...
Another eBay blogging services auction ends
Just a few days after the first eBay public auction of blogging services, a second blogger has rented his blogging talents to the highest bidder.Darren Barefoot of DarrenBarefoot.com has successfully completed his eBay blogger for rent services sale.The...
The Entrepreneurial Mind takes over Carnival of the Capitalists
This week sees an entrepreneurial turn for the travelling business show, recognized by one and all as Carnival of the Capitalists, makes a stop, for the second time, at blog where business and entrepreneurship reign supreme.This week's posts feature...
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