What is something you wish you had done differently in the past regarding your blog? For some folks, it may be having a self-hosted blog sooner. Others wish they had known more about blog SEO or traffic-building. I wish I had known more about copywriting, information product creation, and email marketing sooner. How about you?…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Question the Rules: The Story of a New Kick-Ass Training Program for Punk Rock Entrepreneurs
Interview with Johnny B. Truant for Question the Rules [ 38:18 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadJohnny B. Truant and Lee Stranahan have teamed up to create something pretty special. It’s a course called Question the Rules: The nonconformist’s punk rock, DIY, nuts-and-bolts guide to creating the business and life you really want, starting with what you already have (affiliate link). Seriously, that’s the title. Yes, it’s very long. The story…
Three Simple Steps to Quality Content
This is a guest post by the Fit Jerk. In the world of online content creation, the one sentence that’s been repeated ad nauseam is “content is king”. And you know what? This used to be true when there were only a few major players in the game… which meant you had a limited choice….
Five Reasons Why Mind Mapping Rules
Mind mapping is a technique for brainstorming in an organized but nonlinear way that lets you see how ideas relate to each other. You can do it with a piece of paper and a pencil, a whiteboard and a marker, or with software on your computer or the web. At its simplest, you write down…
Open Discussion: What is Great Content?
The day almost got away from me before I realized I hadn’t posted this week’s open discussion topic, and this week it’s a good one: My question/discussion topic this week seems very simple, but the more you dig into it, the more difficult it becomes. Everything you read about how to make it online pays…
An Interview on BlogcastFM: Niches, Publishing Quality Content, and Simplifying Blog SEO
Remember the show Grizzly Adams? It was your typical innocent-man-hides-from-the-law-in-the-wild-and-befriends-a-bear show. The bear’s name was Ben. Well, right now I look sort of like Grizzly Adams (except for that whole “hair on the top of your head” thing) and sound like Ben. A nasty cold is trying to kill me but first it has ruined…
The Most Important Question You Need to Stop Asking Yourself
The most important question you need to stop asking yourself is this: what is the real secret to <insert whatever here>? You have this nagging feeling that despite everything you’ve learned, there’s still something just around the corner that will put it all in place for you. Like when that happens, a chorus of angels…
Link Journeys for April 17, 2010
It is a perfectly dreary, cold, and icky rainy day in Vermont today. Perfect for being indoors with a big mug of hi-test and filling your mind with the goodness of this week’s links. Well, okay, the last two weeks’ worth of links, because I missed posting Link Journeys last Saturday. Automatic interlinking WordPress plugins…
Open Discussion: What Side of the Other Digital Divide are You On?
You are not normal. If you’re reading this blog or any blog about marketing, blogging, and social media, you’re not normal. If you spend more time on the computer than watching television, you’re not normal. There’s a chasm separating folks who are fluent in the web and digital media from those who are not. If…
What is the Difference Between Your Blog and Your Business?
The line dividing “what is your website” from “what is your business” is blurring more and more. Used to be a business owner had to ask the question: “Do I need a website?” And it seemed a legitimate question: what was the website supposed to actually accomplish for the business? Many never asked that question…
Visual Blog Design – Headway 1.6.1 Now Available
Headway 1.6.1 is now available. The newest version of the most flexible visual blog designer around for WordPress is faster and has many improvement and some new features based on user suggestions and feedback. All Headway features in the WordPress admin have been moved from the Appearance module to Headway’s own module. Administration panels have…
10 Books About Conversation Marketing You Must Read
This is a guest post by Tom Walker. Every Monday is guest post day on Remarkablogger. Contact me if you’d like to submit a guest post. The explosion in use of social networking platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Flickr, and YouTube among others, along with blogging as a means of communication, has presented new…
Blog Comments are Not a Free Meal, They’re a Potluck
Spammy Keyword Comment Names: STOP IT! Two big huge rip your face off reasons: Nobody is going to visit your site because you used a keyword instead of your name in the comments. For real. You will get no PageRank authority from your spammy keyword anchor text, because 99.99% of blogs nofollow comment & trackback links….
Random Doses of Reality about Business Blogging
A certain amount of internet literacy is required to blog. If you’re not on par with that, you’ll struggle. If you find navigating most websites bewildering, it’s not them: it’s you. When you have that internet literacy, the technical side of blog installation, design, and management can still be quite a challenge. That challenge is…
Link Journeys for April 4, 2010
Here are some of the best links I ran across in my journeys around the web this week. Hope you enjoy, and please leave a comment to let me know what you think about these sites. Tynt: finally, a real solution for content theft – albeit, a paid one if you want to make use…
Open Discussion: What Do You REALLY Think is Happening to the Economy?
I don’t think we’re in a recession: I think we’re in the middle of a permanent adjustment. For that same reason, there isn’t going to be a “recovery.” There’s going to be whatever’s next. I don’t believe the jobs are coming back. Ever. Because everything is actually different now, but most people don’t see it….
