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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Through a series of events and circumstances that I am not going to pretend to understand, I was contacted by Rena requesting an interview with moi… she specifically wanted to interview me about my experiences and involvement with Blogcatalog. […]

WARNING! The following is a late hour rant, and might not be worth the time it took to write. You have been warned. 
It’s late, I’m tired, and there, sitting in my inbox is another bloody email, marked “Urgent!” Not really thinking about what I’m doing, I click it up. Sure enough, there’s the pitch: “urgent”, […]

A business, any business, lives and thrives on numbers. For an internet business, those numbers include traffic, click through, and conversion rates, but they all add up to one number: your profit. But what numbers should you be looking at when you are evaluating a new opportunity?
The first figures we usually look at start with […]

Like so many other people, I subscribe to way too many newsletters, making for a very cluttered and noisy inbox. One of these newsletters comes from Michael Bungay Stanier from Box of Crayons. I like Michael’s newsletter because it is usually packed with good information, and I don’t get a new one every second day. […]

You may have heard about Digg’s recent change in algorithm, an effort to limit the “gaming” of Digg’s system of voting a story up or down. If you’re really in the know, you may even be aware that scribd.com has put a halt to html uploads. The express purpose, as stated on the scribd blog, […]

Maintaining a blog is hard work, but what do you do if you want to be able to express yourself online without the hassle of having your own blog? Here are 9 ways that you can tell the world what you think, without the need for a blog of your own. Some of them will […]

I’ll save you the trouble of reading the entire article right now, and just answer the question: yes. Absolutely, without a doubt, copywriting is extremely important to bloggers. Here’s why…
As a blogger, you make your living with words. Your words can make or break your success as a blogger, because that is the only real […]

I will freely admit that I don’t know much about Search Engine Optimization, and truthfully, never really looked into it very much. That has been changing recently, and yet I find my confusion deepening. For example, I recently created a small niche blog themed, and SEO’d around “(something) topics”. Now imagine my puzzlement when Google […]

While I am not a power user of MyBlogLog, I do drop in about once a week or so, and have a look around. Yesterday, I was doing my usual, only to find that I now had to sign in using my Yahoo! id. Problem: I don’t have a Yahoo! id. For that matter, I […]

I prefer not to copy other people’s work, but this article, from Early To Rise, is worth posting on it’s own. I couldn’t have said it better myself. No, really, I couldn’t. Enjoy!
Marc
Don’t Fall Into This Marketing Trap
By Bob Bly
A few weeks ago, my wife called me at work when my back was up against […]