Archive for January, 2007

Does Your Blog Add Value?

Tuesday, January 30th, 2007

Now, there's a loaded question. Almost anyone will answer that there blog is adding value to the internet, but it's not an easy thing to prove. If you're wildly successful, you can point to your soaring stats and your huge income stream to answer the question. But ...

The Single Biggest Obstacle To Blogging Success - Impatience

Monday, January 29th, 2007

There are a number of things that can screw you up when it comes to blogging, but one in particular stands out to me. Most bloggers who fail will underestimate how much work is involved with blogging, and how much time has to be invested, as well. When ...

Social Blog Marketing - It’s All About The Friend Request

Friday, January 26th, 2007

Okay, I wrote about how social blog marketing is paramount yesterday, and how you should approach social newtorks. Today I'd like to point out something that might be obvious to some, but probably not to all: to whit, the friend request is your single biggest marketing tool when it ...

Social Networking For Fun And Profit - Mainly Profit - Part One - The Approach

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

Social networking is a hoot. Now personally, I would never use this crap for real, but that's just me. I'm sort of anti-social in a real sense, and am given to working for long periods in isolation. I don't require much "chit-chat" to soothe my ego, I'd ...

Promoting Your Blogs Through The Social Web

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Alright, it's time to revisit a very popular subject on the internet. How can we use the social web to promote our blogs? I've been attempting this very thing for awhile, and I feel qualified to offer some commentary, so that's exactly what I plan on doing. ...

The Alternative To Updating Your Blog

Tuesday, January 23rd, 2007

The way I see it, you have two choices when you approach your blog. You can: 1) Update it, hoping to provide some useful information, with the thought that your website will get bigger and people will visit 2) Skip it. If you don't update, it really doesn't matter in ...

The Trouble With The Social Web

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

We've all heard about how the social web would consume the internet, and that user-generated content is really some sort of remarkable idea. But is it? The idea has been around for a long time: give people tools and they'll build content for you. But there's one ...

25,000 Uniques Per Week

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Well the methods that I've been preaching here for awhile are beginning to really take off. Here's the last week at Absolutely.Fa-bulo.us. This blog is now 4 and 1/2 months old. The traffic is all organic. The only money I've ever spent to market the ...

A Blogger Can Never Surrender

Wednesday, January 17th, 2007

Churchill never gave up...and it was a good thing for millions Winston Churchill was an inspirational leader to millions. In the darkest days of World War II he inspired the citizens of his nation to stand tall against any and all adveristy. Can we, as bloggers, take solace in ...

Don’t Be Afraid To Try New Things When Promoting Your Blog

Monday, January 15th, 2007

The longer you stay around online, the more you realize there are no hard and fast rules concerning how to make money. Sure, there are principles that you can adopt, but there's no one guaranteed way to strike it rich. In fact, things change so much on the ...