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The Marathon of the Blogging World #2

Posted on February 7, 2010 - by Don Gilbert6 Comments

This is part 2 in our series. Be sure to check out The Marathon of the Blogging World #1 to get caught up.
There will always be people ahead, and there will always be people behind. Every day the number of runners grows. All of them coming out of the gate at a different…

Group Discussion: Customers or Community?

Posted on February 5, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot30 Comments

In our current era of internet marketing, we’re becoming bombarded with the concept of building community oriented websites. And rightly so. Facebook, Twitter and other online communities are bringing in users by the millions. Communities are where it’s at.
But the customers pay the bills. So why waste time focusing on those who are only…

The Marathon of the Blogging World #1

Posted on February 3, 2010 - by Don Gilbert26 Comments

The Blogging world is like an enormous marathon. It’s not a sprint, but a cross country endurance race.
There are around 100 million runners in this race. Every day, new runners are joining, but they are forced to start at the beginning. Every day, all day, these people are running against each other. But because…

Blog Marketing is Relationship Marketing

Posted on January 31, 2010 - by Olusegun Adedokun21 Comments

In this third and final post of the series, we look at relationship marketing and sum up all valid points
Internet Marketing has always had very little human interaction involved – with everything prewritten, prearranged and published without really truly connecting with the end user. At last, bloggers now have an awesome opportunity to correct…

How to Start a Blog #1: Choosing a Niche

Posted on January 28, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot50 Comments

FTC Regulations and Your Blog (Part 2)

Posted on January 27, 2010 - by Olusegun Adedokun11 Comments

In part one of this series, FTC Regulations and Their Impact on Your Blog, we talked about the Federal Trade Commission’s  new rules and the issue of mandatory disclosure. We now continue here.
The second part of the announcement is a more enormous issue, however. It covers Testimonials.
Before the new regulations, people used…

FTC Regulations & Their Impact On Your Blog

Posted on January 24, 2010 - by Olusegun Adedokun35 Comments

There has never been a more exciting or a more scary time in history than now.
A lot of things have changed faster in the last two decades than in all of the 17th and 18th centuries combined. How people get and digest their information is evolving quickly. Old Media companies are having a tough…

Your Guide to Comments That Get Noticed

Posted on January 20, 2010 - by Henri Junttila45 Comments

When your blog is new, no one wants to hang out with you, but this can be turned around. You too can become the popular kid by knowing how to leave awesome comments that get noticed. If you have your own blog, and you get comments, you know what you like to see and what…

7 Tips to Sharing Highly Effective Comments

Posted on January 15, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot45 Comments

Comments are the life blood of a successful blog. They are the evidence of a thriving, robust online community.
Comments are great for you and your website, but there are a lot of principles that many bloggers fail to understand when sharing comments on other sites. If you forget about these concepts then it will…

Maximizing the SEO Quality of Your Links

Posted on January 11, 2010 - by Nicholas Cardot53 Comments

Links make the internet go around.  They’re the roadways that guide us to new sites, to new resources, and to new opportunities to engage, interact and learn.
But we’re not the only ones who draw guidance from the many links scattered around the net.  Search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing rely on links to…