Blog death is so common, partially because people are fickle and partially because it is far too easy to start a blog.  You get a great idea, do 10 minutes of research and you think you are ready to start blogging.
Of course, we all start blogging this way, so this is not intended to make [...]

Monetizing your business is paramount.  But, if your business IS content, then you must monetize your content.  You can do this by charging for your work, but subscriptions are rarely successful as the ONLY monetization of a content site.  Micropayments may make sense, but they won’t cover all your costs.
Try these ways to monetize your [...]

There’s always some sort of debate in the blogging community, but no debate is more forcefully argued than the advertising on blogs debate.  Does it diminish your blogging credibility? 
Let’s look at both sides:
Yes.In some ways it makes you seem like you are blogging ‘for the money’.  However, in some cases you ARE blogging for [...]

Since the Stone Creek Coffee interview, I’ve been hoping to see another blogger interview by Easton.
He’s got a good idea of how to ask the right questions, like this one:
Easton: Why did Earthlink decide to create the Earthling blog?
Dave: They wanted to expand what they had started with the Protection Blog, both in [...]

After my last post, you’d think Tecnorati was doing better. And, while I do see improvement, I need to point out their vast underreporting of blog updates.
PS - I’m still a bit over Technorati as it’s now showing this blog as not having been updated for 207 days and there’s still no word from [...]

A research article on site design says,
“Visual appeal can be assessed within 50 milliseconds, suggesting that web designers have about 50 milliseconds to make a good impression,” the Canadians report in the journal Behaviour & Information Technology.’
Darren has posted on this before, as have I, but it bears repeating.  People are visually motivated.  A [...]

Many of us chose to gift blogs and blog education to family members this year.  Adams Briscoe went a step further and highlighted a specific course of action for the technologically-challenged people who want to start and profit from their newly acquired blog.  Here he explains how he got his father started ith a blog.
The [...]

Do you want to make money from your blog or on your blog?  Problogger.net has an interesting discussion going on this topic.
What are your goals?  If your goal is to increase the conversation, online, about your company, then monetizing your blog is unneccessary.
If your goal is to increase traffic to your home page, then again, [...]

While the fact that GM uses upper management to voice their blog is noteworthy, their tone of late has been dangerously approaching arrogance.  I guess that is an unfortunate side-effect of using real employees who aren’t primarily bloggers.
Although it is important to see posts from those ‘in-the-know’ within GM, a pro-blogger would be able to [...]