This is a guest post by Franklin Bishop. I’ll be back at the wheel on Monday. 7 Factors of a Successful and Trusted Blog 1. Writing Quality Posts – When you are reading around the web and most successful bloggers are saying content is king, then it must mean that content really does matter. You…
Monthly Archives: November 2008
Black Friday Discount on Thesis Theme for WordPress for the First 150 People
NOTE: All 150 discounted licenses for Thesis have been sold. Sorry if you missed it! Did I say I wasn’t posting anything until Monday? Um… scratch that. This is too good to pass up: This “Black Friday” thing has become somewhat of an institution in the US. The day after Thanksgiving, everyone seems to discount…
What I’m Thankful For
Tomorrow is the Thanksgiving holiday in America. It’s a time when family gathers to share in what had traditionally been a bountiful harvest. Most of us are now a little bit removed from the cycles of the farm seasons, but we all understand the need to pause and recognize how much we have to be…
ProBlogger’s New Blog about Twitter – TwiTip
Darren Rowse has created a new blog all about Twitter, called TwiTip. I’ve written two posts for it, so far, and hope to continue to in the future. Darren and I both love Twitter, but we both know it wouldn’t be a good idea to bombard readers of our regular blogs with posts about Twitter….
Brian Clark Opens Partnering Profits
Partnering Profits is a brand-new combination of book, teleseminars (with huge names) and more, and it solves the biggest unseen problem people today face when attempting to launch and run successful online businesses. It’s from Brian Clark and the person who has partnered successfully with Brian on Copyblogger, Jon Morrow. They tell you their methods…
Why Can’t I Be You? Why Comparisons Are Bad For Your Blog Health
This is a guest post by Alex Fayle of Someday Syndrome. Envy and jealously thrive in the blogosphere despite the usually glowing messages of support that fly back and forth. Every time someone announces achieving a new level of social media success, outwardly many people say “Yay!” and inwardly say “Why isn’t that me!?!” That’s…
What’s the Difference between Blog Coaching and Blog Consulting?
My business has changed over time. When I first started, I regarded what I did as blog consulting. I used the word consulting as a catch-all to describe a range of work. I did blog design, installation, maintenance, and other tasks. Part of that was advising people. That was the part I loved. Yes, I…
How to Jump-Start Your Coaching Business with Your Blog
If you want to run a real business online and make money, coaching or consulting is one of the best business models there is. I should know. That’s what I do here. But if you’re just getting started, you have a dilemma: how do you get clients when you’ve never had clients before? You have…
SEO Attitudes
Can’t see the video? Watch it on the blog. I’ve had a lot of discussions with people online about the value of SEO (search engine optimization), and I’ve encountered several viewpoints about it. Some people just think it’s evil and is the same thing as spam, or even that it’s illegal (none of these are…
SEO is a Necessary Blogging Skill
Can’t see the audio player? Head on over to the blog to listen. The other day I wrote that blogging leads to new skills. I asked you guys in the comments to say what new skills you’ve gained because you wanted your blogs to succeed. A good number of you said SEO skills were an…
Check Out, Link Out, and Reach Out – A Simple 3-step Strategy for More Traffic and Better Relationships
There is a simple, three-step strategy that, if followed correctly, will get you blog traffic. More importantly, it will help you develop better relationships with other bloggers and grow your personal network. This easy three-step strategy will bring you opportunities like you never knew could happen. It may sound like I’m exaggerating, but I’m not….
Never Pay Full Price for My Stuff Again
I’ve created an advance notice discount email list. If you join it, you get a chance to buy my stuff before anyone else does and you get it at a big fat discount. The Catch Is there a catch? Yes: from time to time, I will expect you to answer a survey or provide feedback, in…
Remarkablogger in Top 100 Internet Marketing Blogs List
Internet Marketing Top Blogs Cool. Remarkablogger is in the top 100 internet marketing blogs. Yay for you! Why do I say “yay for you” and not “yay for me”? Because this is just one more little piece of proof you get the good stuff, here. So… like I said: yay for you!
Blogging Leads to New Skills
Blogging leads to new and valuable skills needed for online business success. When you first begin blogging, you think “it’s just writing,” but you are quickly dispelled of that illusion when you have to fiddle with your blog’s template code or get a plugin. The moment you realize nobody is hardly reading your blog makes…
Overnight Success and Instant Riches – Myth or Reality?
Yesterday, I told you that I made $1,000.20 in a night. And that’s true. But in a greater context, it’s not true. No, I didn’t yank your chain, I really did make that much money in one evening. But in the greater context, we have to look at how I reached the point where it’s…
How I Made $1000.20 in One Night
Can’t see the video? Watch it on the blog. Online Business School Now at 50% Off In this long-ass video I show you how I do exactly what Online Business School teaches you to do, because I want you to see that you can do it, too. I tell you how and why I have…
What Election 2008 Teaches Us about Blogging
Can’t see the audio player? Please head on over to the blog to have a listen. What can election 2008 teach us about blogging? Plenty, I think. Positive “campaigns” vs. negative ones. Personality vs. issues. Yeah, I think the election can teach us a lot about blogging, if we know how to listen. Can you…
Online Business School Opens for Business at 12 noon Pacific, 3pm Eastern
Naomi Dunford’s Online Business School will open for business at 12 noon Pacific time / 3pm Eastern time. Yes, I have been pushing this. Why? Because my mission here is to help you guys. Naomi has created something that will seriously help you boost your income by diversifying your online income streams. I don’t want Remarkablogger readers…
“How Not to” Blog Posts
Sure, the old “how to” post is great. It’s a staple. We see so many of them, though, that sometimes we want a switch-up. One way to educate while being a little different is to write a “how not to” post. I write a lot of these. Why? It fits better with my sense of humor. It’s…
SEO Radio with Me and Chris McElroy: Make Your Blog Stand Out
I met Chris McElroy on Twitter. He invited me onto his SEO Radio show on the BlogTalkRadio network. We spent a fun hour talking about blogs that really stand out, why they stand out, and how anyone can learn from the takeaways. PS – in just a few days, that thing I told you about…
Top Ten Things to Not Do on an Internet Marketing Blog
I’ve seen my share of internet marketing blogs, and many of my clients are internet marketers. After I help them, they no longer make these mistakes, of course. So, here’s how not to do an internet marketing blog: Have no internet marketing experience. Have no cornerstone product of your own. Put up tons of skeezy-looking ads…
Maybe You Don’t Need to Make $500 an Hour, But…
…That would kick ass, would it not? I should think so. Naomi Dunford from IttyBiz is on a tear with this great free content she’s been releasing. The value level on this stuff is high. She has made a video that describes how multiple income streams can work and how they work for her (which…
Blog Writing Series: Simple doesn’t mean Stupid, or, How to Write So Anyone Can Understand You
This is the fifth and final post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. Keep…
Blog Writing Series: Separate Fact from Fiction on Your Blog
This is the fourth post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin.
The Beginner’s Guide to Twitter
This is a guest post by Deanna de Bara from Sugarrae.com. As a relative “newbie” to the social networking scene (I sporadically use facebook and myspace, but thats about it), I was interested to try Twitter, a social networking and micro blogging site that has recently become popular with internet enthusiasts. The program began as…
Blog Writing Series: Don’t Get Mad, Get Persuasive
This is the third post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. Write to Change…
Blog Writing Series: Quit Qualifying Your Words and Just Say it Already
This is the second post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. Avoid Hedging Words…
Why We’re Broke, and How to Fix It
Many of you know my friend Naomi from IttyBiz and read her blog. Many of you have read SEO School and know how awesome she is. She knows her stuff. Well, she has written an unflinchingly brave, soul-searching blog post. She manages to say a lot of things people are trying to articulate. I found…
Blog Writing Series: No More Rambling Brain Splats
This is the first post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. There are two…
Coming Up This Week on Remarkablogger: Blog Writing Series
Blogging is mostly writing. You can do a lot with multimedia on a blog, but words are the primary currency in which we all trade. The first week of November is going to be a series of posts on writing better blog posts. I’ve taught writing, business writing, and writing for the web throughout my…
