Entries Tagged 'Blogging' ↓
July 13th, 2007 — Blogging, bowl, class, holder, jazz, professional, season, ticket, upper
I was just told about a new fan blog being launched by the Utah Jazz, JazzBots. The blog hasn’t launched yet. At the moment they are just looking for contributors. Participation will be on a volunteer basis, but it seems volunteers will get lots of cool stuff for their efforts, which may be worth it for many fans.
JazzBots is looking for the following:
- one season ticket holder from the lower bowl,
- one season ticket holder from the upper bowl,
- a college student,
- a housewife,
- a young working professional,
- a Jazz family,
- an elementary school class
- a Jazz fan
For more information check out the detail for applying.
I think this is a great idea and is a good example of how large organizations can use blogging to engage their audience. I’ll be keeping an eye on the project to see how it turns out.
On a related note, I was very surprised to find out how much people here in the Philippines (where I am currently living) love basketball. I was a huge NBA and Jazz fan as a kid, but in the last several years I haven’t really followed basketball very much. However, when I got here I got frequent updates of the NBA Playoffs and specifically the Jazz from several Filipino friends. It was interesting that a these friends knew more about my home team than I did.
June 16th, 2007 — Blogging, Uncategorized
Yaro Starak just announced that his much anticipated Blog Mastermind will launch this Thursday. Yaro has offered a lot of great advice on his blog for quite some time so I am sure his Blog Mastermind will be well worth the money. A couple weeks ago I blogged about Yaro’s free Blog Profits Blueprint, which offers a lot of great blogging advice for free. I recommend reading it to get a little taste of what Yaro will offer in his mastermind.
June 4th, 2007 — Blogging, Uncategorized
Yaro Starak released his free Blog Profits Blueprint just last week. I was able to set aside some time to read it over the weekend so I thought I’d give you my thoughts.
When I first started reading the report I didn’t really think I would get very much out of it. He starts off by telling you how he got involved in blogging and some of the success he has had doing it. Interesting story, but how does that help me? Then when I actually started to get into the real content of the report it just seemed too basic. He explains what blogging is how people make money with blogs, and how to get traffic to a blog. This is all stuff you already know if you have even a little experience with blogging and internet marketing.
However, by the time I got near the end of the report I had actually learned a few new things and I realized that even though a lot a what he was writing about was stuff I already knew, Yaro organized and presented it in such a way as to emphasize the most important aspects of pro blogging. It helps you think about what you really should be doing, prioritizing you efforts on tasks that are going to best help you reach you overall objective for blogging. There were also several little nuggets of value (things I either hadn’t realized or had forgotten) sprinkled throughout the report. A lot of times in life, and especially in business, you need to be reminded of things you have already learned. By the time I had finished the report I was very impressed with what Yaro had put together.
I don’t mean to boast, but I actually have a lot of experience with blogging and internet marketing, and I thought reading the report was well worth my time. So for someone with a little less or no experience this report can offer a tremendous amount of value. It is a must read for internet marketers and bloggers of all experience levels.
Get your free copy of Blog Profits Blueprint here
May 11th, 2007 — Blogging, Links, excuses, identified, myths, reasons, rowse, submissions, ultimate, wrestling
May 9th, 2007 — Blogging, Links, SEO, Uncategorized
I am writing this post as part of Darren Rowse’s Group Writing Project. The following are my five favorite blogs related to doing business online. I would recommend them to all.
1. ProBlogger: Darren gives great advice on everything related to Pro blogging.
2. Pronet Advertising: I would say this is the best blog out there about social media from a marketers perspective. Neil and his gang have done a great job.
3. SEOmoz: Rand Fishkin and the folks at SEOmoz provide a steady flow of good advice and information related to Search Engine Optimization.
4. CopyBlogger: Brian gives great advice related to copywriting. I am constantly amazed at the quality of every post he publishes.
5. John Chow dot Com: Although his blog tends to go off topic quite frequently John offers great information on everything related to making money online.
While trying to come up with this list several other blogs came to mind which are also worth reading, so I’ve decided to list them below if you want to check them out.
SEO Book
Paul Allen (the lesser)
Newspapergrl
Macalua.com
Shoemoney
Seth Godin’s blog
Search Trends
The Carolynn Blog
and so many more…
April 24th, 2007 — Blogging, SEO, Uncategorized
One popular reasons given for using partial feeds as opposed to full feeds is that it increases the amount of visitors to your actual site. If you let people have your full feed they will just consume your content through a feed reader and never visit your site, so you have to offer just a partial feed so they will have to click through to your website and read your full post, right? … Wrong! Several recent posts say otherwise, and so do I. Whenever I subscribe to a feed and find out it only offers a partial feed I unsubscribe immediately in almost all cases. On the rare occasion that I do stay subscribed I end up reading less of the content than I would have had they offered a full feed, simply because clicking through to a website is just an extra step that I am reluctant to take, because it takes me away from all the other good content in my feed reader provided by all the other blogs who let me subscribe to a full feed. There is a lot of good content out there and I am always looking for ways to sift through it all. By offering only a partial feed you are pretty much guaranteeing that I will place your content in the never return category. One exception to this is Aaron Wall’s SEOBook. He offers great content that I wouldn’t want to miss it, but his blog is the only exception.
If bloggers want readers to click through to their website I recommend that they entice them rather that force them. Offer great content that encourages discussion and people will want to click through after they have read your full post in their feed reader simply to see the comments and post one of their own. I do this very often myself. As I read posts in my feed reader I open the ones I would like to comment on in a new tab and go back to them after I have gone through all the content in my feed reader. So for everyone out there who offers only partial feeds, if you want this reader please switch to full feeds.
April 12th, 2007 — Blogging, Wordpress, blogger, domain, easiest, hosting, recommend, sign, starting
This topic may be a bit basic for many of you, but every once in a while people ask me how to start a blog, or a website, so I am writing this post to share my recommendations and thoughts on the subject.
The easiest and quickest way I would recommend starting a blog would be to go to blogger.com and sign up for a new account there. The great thing about using blogger is that you don’t have to buy a domain name or get hosting, they take care of that for you. All you have to do is follow their simple step by step sign-up process then start blogging.
Wordpress.com also offers a similar service. There are many other similar services out there, but I would recommend using either blogger or wordpress. This is just the easiest route, however. For those that are serious about blogging or want to start a website that they own completely I would recommend buying your own domain name, finding a hosting provider, then set-up Wordpress on your own domain. With all the free themes and plug-ins and the ease of editing template files Wordpress is really easy to customize and extend its functionality to include almost anything you would need for blogging.
So in a nutshell my advice to anyone who wants to start a blog download and install Wordpress on your own domain if you are serious, otherwise just get a free hosted blog on blogger.com or wordpress.com.
October 18th, 2006 — Blogging, engine, feed, marketing, regularly, search, subcribe, updating, visit
I just launched a new blog about search engine marketing. I am going to be updating it pretty regularly so please check it out, subcribe to the feed, and visit often.
October 6th, 2006 — Blogging, Review
I was glad to find that someone had launched a site with the intent to pay bloggers per post on their blog when I found out about PayPerPost.com, although I was kind of disappointed to find out that I was not the first to launch such a site. My friend Garrett and I had this same idea and actually met to work out the details about six months ago. However, we agreed that we did not have the resources or time at that moment to really make it work. I remember thinking to myself I don’t care if someone else takes this idea because I would just like to see such a website exist so I could you use it to advertise my own projects.
On a related note. Yaro Starak, has recently published a free eBook for bloggers, teaching different ways bloggers can make money. He is also offering a membership mentor program to teach bloggers all about making money with blogs. Check out Yaro’s free ebook by clicking here.
