Blog Business Summit sounds fab
The Blog Business Summit in Seattle (Jan. 24 – 25, 2005) is heating up. Lots of great speakers, from Robert Scoble to Halley Suitt. I just emailed conference organizer Steve Broback and he assured me this is…
FREE until Jan. 25, 2005! My “Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging”
My quick guide to the “what, why & how of business blogging” went live moments ago on Seth Godin’s ChangeThis site. Download my “Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging” as one of the new manifestos. It’s FREE… until Jan. 25,…
FREE! My “Beginner’s Guide to Blogging”… until Jan. 25, 2005
My quick guide to the “what, why & how of business blogging” went live moments ago on Seth Godin’s ChangeThis site. Download my “Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging” as one of the new manifestos. It’s FREE… until Jan. 25, 2005 so…
Is your company blogophobic? Should it be??
According to BoingBoing, close to two dozen companies (yes, some are brand names) have fired or punished employees for blogging. Get the list here. Includes Delta Air Lines, Wells Fargo, Starbucks, The Houston Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nunavut Tourism, , the Committee on Degrees in…
read morePew “State of Blogging” report confirms WordBiz RSS survey
Results of Pew’s new report on the “State of Blogging” are all over the Net: fewer than one-third of U.S. Internet users say they know what a blog is and have read one. By contrast, a mere 5 percent have downloaded an RSS newsreader. Results are a good…
read moreWhen will Google’s Gmail add RSS feeds?
Pew “State of Blogging” report confirms WordBiz RSS survey
Results of Pew’s new report on the “State of Blogging” are all over the Net: 27 percent of U.S. Internet users say they know what a blog is and have read one. By contrast, a mere 5 percent have downloaded an RSS newsreader. Results are a good match…
read moreWhat Clients Are Saying…
Debbie Weil works with a limited number of clients who need an e-newsletter or home page audit, help in evaluating an email vendor, or review and editing of the copy and content formula on their site or email program. Give her a call. She’d love to help you improve your…
read moreWhat was hot in the blogosphere in 2004?
Clever… go here to see BlogPulse’s review of the year. The folks at BlogPulse sent an email announcement with a link to their year-in-review page:
“BlogPulse 2004 contains something for everyone – politics, news, social trends, international topics, silly stuff and intriguing finds. The Year in Review neatly…
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Take Our 1-Minute RSS Quiz…
… and enter the book giveaway to win a collector’s edition copy of Seth Godin’s Free Prize Inside. I’ve got one copy for one lucky winner. It’s packaged inside a cereal box. Very cool… Free Prize was selected by…
Take our 1-Minute RSS Quiz…
… and enter the book giveaway to win a collector’s edition copy of Seth Godin’s Free Prize Inside. I’ve got one copy for one lucky winner. It’s packaged inside a cereal box. Very cool… Free Prize was selected by Forbes as…
“3 Reasons to Publish an E-newsletter AND a Blog” is hottest article on MarketingProfs
Cool… my article from six months ago is currently the “hottest” (i.e. most popular) article in today’s special year-end issue of MarketingProfs.com. I’m a huge fan of MProfs. If you’re not already a subscriber to their e-newsletter, I highly recommend it. Go here to sign up.
read moreHow to READ a blog
John Dvorak’s tips for newbies on how to understand and read a blog. Scroll down for the cool graphic that illustrates comments, permalinks, blockquotes and more. Courtesy of Steve Rubel.
read moreAt least 3 degrees of separation for an ROI for Intelliseek’s blog
Speaking of being hard-nosed about the ROI of business blogs… take a look at Intelliseek’s clever BlogWebinar, that promotes (what else) their free webinars. Here’s how the ROI works. Intelliseek’s FREE blog promotes FREE webinars about blogging… that generate leads for their BlogPulse tool, their
AN ROI for open source
Amazing… if you can, grab a copy of today’s New York Times and turn to the spread on pages A25 & A26. You’ll see a cool ad placed by the folks behind Mozilla’s open-source Firefox browser and paid for by 10,000 adopters of Firefox (aka SFX, “Support Firefox”).…
read moreAn ROI for open source
Amazing… if you can, grab a copy of today’s New York Times and turn to the spread on pages A25 & A26. You’ll see a cool ad placed by the folks behind Mozilla’s open-source Firefox browser and paid for by 10,000 adopters of Firefox (aka SFX, “Support Firefox”).…
read moreRepeat: you don’t need to be Hemingway or Proust…
British communications writer Neville Hobson challenges something I wrote recently. To wit, that “good writing” is an essential part of blogging. Not so, he says. You just need a “voice” and some personality. And then you can “have at it,” as they say. I disagree. But perhaps we’re…
read moreSo… can you sell through a blog?
That’s a big question and I’ve only got time for a little answer right now. Here it is: YES, if you’re discrete, contextual and not too pushy about it. For example, see post below where I riff on my new Beginner’s Guide to Blogging. I’ve inserted tracking links behind…
read moreHot off the press… “Beginner’s Guide to Business Blogging”
I just finished writing & editing this new guide. Ever notice how the last thing you wrote is your favorite. So… at risk of sounding a bit salesy I thought…
Sherpa stats reveal “what’s working” in email
This is a nifty 17-page PDF with tons of stats in it about the current state of email marketing: click-throughs, landing pages, corporate filtering, etc. A great teaser for the complete version of MarketingSherpa’s 2005 Email Marketing Metrics Guide.
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