Archive for May 5th, 2006

Share Your RSS Numbers

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Rok Hrastnik, an RSS marketing eBook author, is looking for your RSS information to include in his upcoming RSS eBook:
By providing your personal experiences with RSS you will receive a free
copy of the full 2006 RSS Marketing Survey Report. The report will
include RSS marketing best practices and metrics, you can then compare
your RSS marketing practices [...]

Local Podcasting

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Local businesses often suggest they can not benefit from podcasting as they are not looking for ‘online visibility’.  However, local businesses CAN and DO benefit from pocasting.
Promote your podcast on your websiteEven local businesses have a brochure-type website.  Promote the podcast there.
Promote your podcast on other sitesYour business can benefit from being listed on local sites [...]

Corporate Blogs

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Patrick Dodd blogs on corporate blogging and today’s post on Corporations and their reaction to blogging is spot on.
I wonder what percentage of these companies have employees that are writing unsanctioned blogs?  I guess if they are not monitoring the blogosphere than they will never find out.  Ignorance is bliss.

Corporations may not be ‘getting it’ [...]

Series Promotion

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Purposeful blogging means you blog with a specific purpose in mind.  Series blogging is one of best steps toward making your business blogging purposeful.
Effective series blogging means finding out what your readers want and delivering it well. 
It also means delivering the content effectively.  In other words, try to make it digestible.  Break it down [...]

Battling Writers Block

Friday, May 5th, 2006

As a blogger that posts probably 25 posts or more per day, I often end up pondering topic ideas.  Here are some things I do to output fresh content daily.
Follow Press ReleasesOften you can ‘break’ a story by getting an RSS feed of Press Releases.  95% of what comes out is junk, but the last [...]