Batching is when you do many similar tasks in one concentrated session. It saves you tons of time and helps you keep your focus. David Allen of GTD fame and Timothy Ferriss of the 4-Hour Work Week are advocates of batching. I’ve been using it myself to great effectiveness to manage my schedule (I have…
Monthly Archives: October 2007
Overheard in the Blogosphere 7
Tell me in one sentence why I should write about you and why my readers will care. I’m listening. Brian Solis Women are like websites. Getting links is like having sex. You can pay for sex or you get it for free. If you are very attractive you have no problems. If you are ugly,…
Gateway Blogging: Business Blogging Grows Up
The roots On October 18, I posted Gateway Blogging: A New Way to Look at Business Blogging. I made the video on October 7. But I’ve been trying to say this for nearly the whole time I’ve been blogging for entrepreneurs. I just needed a better name for it that described the premise in a…
Look What I Found
I was cleaning house today and you know how stuff gets stuck in the cushions of your couch? Most people find potato chips, fuzz, and pennies. Not me. I found some old blog posts! They do have a little fuzz on them, but they’re still worth sharing! Do You Suffer from Blog Fatigue? 4 Strategies…
Video: Can Your Blog Answer these 3 Questions in 5 Seconds?
What is your blog about? Who are you? Why should we trust you? These are 3 questions your blog should answer within the first 5 seconds of a visitor’s arrival by its design and content.
25 Pownce Invites for the first 25 Commentors, No Strings Attached
Check out my Pownce Profile! I have 25 invites. Pownce is still by invitation only. If you want one, just leave a comment and I’ll email you one. First come, first serve, except for spam or scrapers. No strings attached. You don’t have to do a thing. Yours if you want one. What is Pownce?…
FreelanceSwitch Reviews Remarkablogger and You Can Too
I subscribe to the amazing blog FreelanceSwitch, and last weekend I noticed Jonathan Fields had casually dropped an invitation in a comment on a post there to send in your blog URL to possibly receive a free marketing review. When things like this happen, you gotta figure most people will not go for it, telling…
Blog about What You Do, Not What You Think
If you sell products or services and you want people to buy them, don’t offer your opinions. Nobody cares. People care about themselves, and as far as you’re concerned, they care about what you can do for them. Blog about what you do, not what you think. This is one of the simplest and most…
Subtle Reminder: Vote in my Poll!
I really wanted to discuss with you the results of my Business Blogging poll from last week, but it needs more votes! If you haven’t voted yet, please do. If you have already voted, then I thank you and humbly request that you bring the poll to someone else’s attention so they can vote, too….
You Don’t Have to Be an Expert Blogger
Sounds crazy, doesn’t it? Why the bleep is a blogging consultant telling you not to do all the usual things pro bloggers advise in order to become an expert blogger? Because it’s probably not your job. If you run a business (freelance, micro-ISV, small biz, Fortune 500, whatever), then your goal is to do that…
22 Open Source-Related Blog Niche Ideas
Open source is hot and only going to get hotter. Here are 26 ideas for blogs in open source niches. Now with links to relevant info or searches, so now my free blog niche ideas post is more valuable as a resource, instead of just a list of words. If anyone ever starts a blog…
The Secret Link has been Updated!
The Whaah? The Secret Link! The Secret Link is only available to Remarkablogger RSS subscribers. I update it once a week or so. If you haven’t subscribed to the Remarkablogger RSS feed or email (in the sidebar), you are missing out on cool tools and links every week. As an example, here is the previous…
Overheard in the Blogosphere 6
I am constantly surprised that people read what I have to say. Darren Rowse The secret of what I do: I notice things and give them names. I haven’t bit off more than that, because I’d probably do it poorly. Part of the challenge in breaking through is finding a niche you can overwhelm. Seth…
Gateway Blogging: A New Way to Look at Business Blogging
Gateway blogging is a term I created that helps to frame business blogging activities so that the blog supports the business, and not the other way around.
Speaking about Blogging at the Vermont Craft Council Fall Marketing Conference
Here some pics and slides of me speaking at a workshop I gave for the Vermont Craft Council Fall Marketing Conference. My session had about 30 or so people in it. Because we had to dim the lights to be able to see anything onscreen, no pictures were taken while I was delivering my presentation….
Call to Business Bloggers: How Does Blogging Help Your Business?
I write a lot about how blogging helps businesses of all stripes and sizes, but now I want to hear from you. How has blogging helped your business? Take the poll below, but also you can tell me in your own words in the comments below or write a post on your own blog and link back to this post. After a week or so, I’m going to take a look at the responses and collect some of them together into a summary post.
What’s Coming Up for Remarkablogger
Since I’ve changed the name from my own name to Remarkablogger and explained why, I wanted to provide you with some insight into what’s coming up for the blog and consultancy: Speaking about blogging at a crafts marketing conference: I’ll be speaking at the Vermont Crafts Council Fall Marketing Conference which is tomorrow. If you’re…
Video: Business Blogs vs. Normal Websites
What are the differences between a so-called “normal” website and a business blog? Are there real advantages to a business blog that a normal website can’t give you? The video covers the following:
- Characteristics of static websites and blogs
- Blogs, search engine optimization, and people finding you
- Blogging is about the conversation, normal websites are about one-way marketing
Get a Quick Blog Review for $100
I wanted to offer something on a smaller scale than paying me hourly or hiring me for a larger project. Something almost like a “product” that nearly anyone could afford. A blog review with a written report that you can use as a roadmap going forward seems like just the thing.
Free Quick Blog Review: Theme Playground
This post is the fifth and last in a series of 5 free quick blog reviews worth a total of $500 that I’m giving away to promote my blog consultancy. First review: Caroline Middlebrook, Livin Online. Theme Playground First Impressions Ryan Imel blogs about WordPress and theme design at the wonderfully named Theme Playground. Ryan…
Free Quick Blog Review: MarcoRichter.net
This post is the fourth in a series of 5 free quick blog reviews worth a total of $500 that I’m giving away to promote my blog consultancy. First review: Caroline Middlebrook, Livin Online. MarcoRichter.net MarcoRichter.net has a rather audacious (and copied) tagline: “The Miscellaneous Ramblings of an Internet Tycoon.” I’m going to believe that…
Michael Martine is Now Remarkablogger
You may have noticed a slight change. Better Blogging with Michael Martine is now Remarkablogger. I kept thinking about Seth Godin’s speech about remarkableness, embodied by his “Purple Cow” concept. That has been a tremendous inspiration to me to really crank things up to the max in terms of originality and creativity and to stand…
Why Should Artists Blog?
Why should artists blog? I see three important points as a possible answer to this question:
- Artists want their work to be seen and appreciated
- Artists seek to understand and evolve their art
- Elimination of technical barriers
Free Quick Blog Review: unTECHy
This post is the third in a series of 5 free quick blog reviews worth a total of $500 that I’m giving away to promote my blog consultancy. First review: Caroline Middlebrook, Livin Online. unTECHy First impressions Keith runs unTECHy, a blog whose tag line says it’s about “online reviews from an unTECHy point of…
Free Quick Blog Review: DCS Media
This post is the second in a series of 5 free quick blog reviews worth a total of $500 that I’m giving away to promote my blog consultancy. I review a blog called DCS Media.
Free Quick Blog Review: Caroline Middlebrook, Livin’ Online
This post is the first in a series of 5 free quick blog reviews worth a total of $500 that I’m giving away to promote my blog consultancy.
Tim Ferriss on Productivity
I don’t often post the work of anyone here but myself, but this is such great productivity advice that I can’t help but share it with you. Bloggers tend to be total information junkies and Tim’s radical advice for dealing with it is something I think we could all benefit from.
The 10 Types of Business Blog Posts
Business blog posts generally fall into one of 10 types. When you’re trying to write for your business blog and you feel a little stuck (or if you’re new to business blogging), you can just pick one of these 10 types of business blog posts to use as a guide.
