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I’m a reluctant BlogHer attendee. As someone with a limited conference budget I wasn’t sure in the past that BlogHer was the best place to invest in my blogging and social media education. Tales of swag rooms and brand courting only served to keep me away as this wasn’t as important to me as the [...]
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A common mistake made among bloggers is in not exploring alternative publishing options for their blogs. Your blog could explode beyond that of a web page if you’d only take the time to check out the choices available. As much as we’d like to think we have a loyal community who visits our blogs each [...]
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Last night I went out for drinks with the girls. My friends work in a variety of careers, none having anything to do with social media. I often wonder if when I talk about my blogs or Twitter they think I’m some sort of loonie, or even if they really care. During our conversation last [...]
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When I first began blogging, whether or not to monetize a blog was a controversial topic. Only sellouts and greedy money grubbers or Internet marketers put up ads. Then folks like Darren Rowse and John Chow proved that there was serious money to be made via blogging and all of a sudden it wasn’t such [...]
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I have to admit, the sale of my blog went very well and despite the emotional aspect, was pretty smooth sailing. Aside from my house, this was probably the biggest transaction that ever passed through my hands, justifying the five years of work put into building and growing a blog and community. Selling my blog [...]
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I’m totally digging CardioTrainer, a fitness app for my Droid. I especially appreciate how it’s keeping my accountable and on track with my weight loss goals. I don’t know how it is with you, but eight years of blogging can take a toll on a girl. What started out as a little extra baby weight [...]
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If you read any of my other blogs or guest blog posts, you’ll know how I feel about the competition. Or rather, that I don’t believe in competition. The way I see it, the people who blog about the same or similar things are colleagues and collaborators. “Competitor” almost has a negative connotation and I [...]
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Once you’ve worked for a long time building a community, how do you get it to that next level? How do you promote it and get it more general attention? It can be hard to promote because it might now have amazing content like other blogs and website that you can use social media promotion [...]
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