Archive for May, 2006

Why word of mouth is the best advertising your blog can have

Wednesday, May 31st, 2006

Nothing beats a personal recommendation. Personal referrals are so potent, in fact, that marketing companies try to harness their power every day. "Friends and Family" type discount plans are their attempt at monetizing something that should come quite naturally. A 'word of mouth' referral is one that ...

Blogging is a chance to receive immediate feedback

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

One more advantage of blogging is the fact you get to talk to people from all around the world. The best part is, these people will communicate with you, which can only make you a better blogger. Every business in the world needs customers, and the businesses which ...

The Mind of the Millionaire Blogger

Monday, May 29th, 2006

Recently I spoke about how important it is to view your blog as an investment, and one that goes up in value. To think of yourself as being in a lowly position as a blogger is just nuts. Blogging is where it's at, and no one can fault ...

The real estate investor’s theory of the value of blogging

Sunday, May 28th, 2006

The other day, I realized that I was creating economic value every day when I blog, regardless of what my current income is. This was a very comforting thought indeed. Every where around the world, men, women, and even girls, are blogging around the clock, hoping desperately someone ...

6 reasons RSS is a non-stop marketing tool

Saturday, May 27th, 2006

Why is RSS one of the most powerful marketing tools currently at your disposal? RSS has a number of great features, which can only assist a blogger in growing her readership. Email is dead, and it's never coming back. If you're serious about making real money from ...

$224.27 per day of economic value created per day per blog by me

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Now I hate to "toot my own horn", and this may come back to haunt me, but I had a rather profound thought today because of something I read at the WhyMyBlogStinks Blog. We've all seen the tool before: a clever viral marketing tool that computes the value of ...

You can’t go wrong being unique in the blogging game

Friday, May 26th, 2006

Resist the temptation to imitate others, and become the real deal yourself. You look around you and see just how successful certain people are blogging, and you might reckon that they've bottle d the recipe and that you need to be like them to succeed. This is a ...

The needs of the individual blogger versus the needs of the blogging community

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

Almost everyone online likes to "self-promote", but most people realize there's a fine line between self promotion and manipulation. Lauren at coComment's official blog noticed my post about acquiring easy "Web 2.0" links, and she wondered if my discovery of exploitable search engine love was "a good thing". ...

The area in which blogging excels the most

Wednesday, May 24th, 2006

If I had to name one single benefit from blogging that outweighs the others, I'd probably say that blogging can help communicate who you are better than other website formats. Since bloggers tend to update daily, and are in touch with their personal lives, you get to know people ...

Web 2.0: easy source of backlinks

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

One of the best things about many new "Web 2.0" style sites is they offer a ton of unique opportunities for link building. Here's a nice one I saw because of the presence of legendary uber-Commenter Easton Ellsworth. CoComment is a great way to keep of ...