Category: General

Booyeah! We got another exclusive call-in coming up in a couple weeks. This time we’re hanging out with Toby Bloomberg from Diva Marketing Blog. Toby hails from Altanta and is president of Bloomberg Marketing. Our chat is going to be titled: Biz Blogs – Enter At Your Own Risk! Wednesday January 12 @ 8pm EST […]

Quick snip from Fortune‘s article ‘Why There’s No Escaping the Blog‘: It all used to be so easy; the adage went “never pick a fight with anyone who buys ink by the barrel.” But now everyone can get ink for free, launch a diatribe, and—if what they have to say is interesting to enough people—expect […]

PubSub is out with LinkRanks: (via Steve and Dane) LinkRanks are our way of measuring the strength, persistence, and vitality of links appearing in weblogs. When PubSub reads a new weblog entry, we pull out any URIs we find and attach them to the entry in a separate field. To track your blog’s LinkRank – […]

A peek at who had the first 100 domains.

Christopher Carfi put together some bullets on how customers approach companies these days: I want to have a say. I don’t want to do business with idiots. I want to know when something is wrong, and what you’re going to do to fix it. I want to help shape things that I’ll find useful. I […]

I love Scott Stratten, and not just because we have the same birthday (go Taurus!). He’s irreverent and blunt and just a little smart-assed. He’s hosting a free marketing call on and I had to tell you about it: How to make your service based business a client magnet in 2005. We’re gonna talk about […]

Holy cow! Twenty-seven percent of online adults in the United States said in November they read blogs, compared with 17 percent in a February survey by the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Blogs that cover the tsunami disaster and relief efforts are bound to boost readership further, said Lee Rainie, the project’s director. “The […]

I so want to be a part of this: For the first time in two decades I’m not on the payroll of a large media corporation. As of today I’m on the payroll of a one-person company, comprised of me, but media is still on my agenda. As many of you know I’m going to […]

I have nothing against making money with blogs. What I tried to do… was enlarge the conversation beyond making money with blogs, into making money because of blogs. I think this is a big point for a lot of starting bloggers. That you may not make money directly from something you do on you blog […]

Des was one of my clients in my blogging class and he keeps sending me articles and news items he finds on blogging. So I thought, why not let him post ’em? Welcome Des! You can read his blog over at http://deswalsh.typepad.com/thb.