Ezine/Blog Combos: Here are two examples

Ezine/Blog Combos: Here are two examples
I've noticed a trend of combining a newsletter with blog posts. In these two examples, each done a little differently, the focus is on driving readers to read what interests them the most. Whether it's a special report, an audio...

links for 2008-02-26
Popular Social Networking Websites Around The World (tags: SocialNetworking Stats) The Associated Press: Internet Ad Revenue Exceeds $21B in 2007 " Online advertising revenues exceeded $21 billion for the first time in 2007, although preliminary data compiled by an industry...

2 + 5 Formula to Improve the Quality of Your Writing
There are two things that will guarantee success with your writing, even if you don't consider yourself a professional author: Expertise Passion You can even make a typo or a grammatical error and most readers won't mind as long as...

Quality Blog Writing: Theme of the Week
Here are links to great posts this week about writing better blog posts: Quality Blog Content for Your Business: The Great Challenge - Build a Better Blog Time to Think: the missing ingredient in quality blog writing - Build a...

Blog or Newsletter? Which is best for building a list?
"Are Ezines still very relevant and a popular popular way to establish a list vs. a blog?" Amanda from Ft. Lauderdale asks. This is a 2-part question really, about which is best to do, and then about the best way...

More Brain Power: keep those feet moving!
Every year, Harvard Business Review publishes a list of breakthrough ideas for the workplace of the future. Here's one idea that gets my vote: 1. Treadmills are installed in offices; people are encouraged to take exercise breaks. 2. Workstations include...

Facebook for Business: How to justify your addiction
I've ignored just about every other social networking site except for LinkedInBloggers and Facebook. To tell the truth I need fewer distractions in my life, not more. If I want a social life, I'll go to the tennis courts. But...

The Future is Web Services, Not Web Sites
Remember The Graduate when Benjamin Braddock was advised to go into plastics. The clip is here. It seemed like a safe bet at the time - and it was. Today the web maybe "the new plastics." It seems like every...

Blog Face Lift: It's official...
It's taken a couple of years to evolve this blog, change the name a couple of times, and finally get a domain and banner that is targeted to an audience wanting to learn how to write content for online marketing....

Spring Conference Line-Up
Spring is around the corner and so is the peak conference season. Here's a run down of events at which I will be speaking. Here's hoping that I get to meet some of you at these. Euroblog 2008 (March 13-15...

Spring Break: The Blog Squad Slashes Prices 81% on Teleseminars
To celebrate the arrival of Spring, we're staging a Spring Break Sale. The Blog Squad is offering 8 teleseminars and a chance to win some amazing bonuses... Click on over to find out about our Spring Fling sale...

Comparing SMM SEO and PR Tactics is Pure Poppycock
Last week I wrote about how some in the search engine optimization profession (not all) are openly espousing how to basically turn social media sites into heat seeking missiles for Google Juice - and not much else. Apparently there is...

links for 2008-02-29
The Rise of the 'Citizen Paparazzi' - WSJ.com "Hunger for Celebrity Gossip Helps Create a Market" (tags: CitizenJournalism Photography) Hill Library Blog: The Entire Communications Industry, in Less than 200 Pages Great resource on all things digital. (tags: Stats 2007...

If Everything Else Asks for Feedback, Why Not Ads?
Asking for feedback is in. Virtually every journalist solicits feedback by posting their email addresses. Some even ask overtly. As Forrester's Jeremiah Owyang recently noted, companies are inviting comments - yet far more slowly. Notably, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer invited...

Startups That Fail to Invest in Trust Will All Die
Web startups need access to talent. Often they need capital too (and a smart strategy for managing it). But I am going to argue here that their most essential currency is trust. However, a lot of emerging companies in particular...

Using Friendfeed's Imaginary Friends as a Master Aggregator
Like lots of bloggers, my latest fascination these days is Friendfeed. The site, which opened up to everyone about three weeks ago, has been on fire. It aggregates the various streams of all your friends from across all the big...

Wall Street Journal & Blog Squad: Denise gets quoted
Find out what Denise, my Blog Squad partner, says in a Wall Street Journal article about getting publicity through blogs...Attention, Bloggers by Shelly Banjo.

What Does a Dentist Know About Success in Business, Life, and Family?
Our colleague Kathleen Gage has been instrumental in the production and marketing of a very special book, What Can a Dentist Teach You about Business, Life and Success? Discover Secrets to Achieving Total Success! by Dr. Joe Capista. Denise has...