by Debbie Weil | Nov 12, 2004 | Uncategorized, Writing
I asked a handful of top bloggers for their top Do or Don’t for writing a business blog. Here is what Microsoft’s Robert Scoble, Seth Godin, Halley Suitt and others told me. No, these folks are not CEOs or CXX execs but they know how to write a blog and...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 12, 2004 | Stuff, Uncategorized
Current issue of WordBiz Report offers a round-up of my observations from Ad-Tech in New York this week. Another good write-up of the Ad-Tech blogging panel from Jeff Jarvis in BuzzMachine. Jeff notes that the 35 million Americans who are reading top-ranked blogs (a...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 10, 2004 | Stuff, Uncategorized
A pointer to another article on this topic in today’s Toronto Globe and Mail: Net Diarists Blog Their Way to a Job. Thanks to WordBiz subscriber Barnaby Kalan for the tip. Barnaby is author of Outsourcing Yourself, a pithy little paperback that happens to...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 9, 2004 | Stuff, Uncategorized
While I’ve been ranting, er, raving about the value – and validity – of business blogs, a parallel phenomenon has taken off in the past year that you may or may not be familiar with. It’s niche-content blogs supported by advertising. And...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 9, 2004 | Marketing, Uncategorized
Here’s a great tip from Christoper Knight of Ezine-Tips on how to get maximum ROI out of the Welcome message you (should) send to new subscribers to your e-newsletter or ezine. He readily admits that it’s obvious: introduce yourself to your readers and...
by Debbie Weil | Nov 9, 2004 | Stuff, Uncategorized
That bit of wisdom from Gawker’s Nick Denton at yesterday’s blogging session at Ad-Tech New York. Update: oops. Actually, ’twas Jason McCabe Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc. who said that. In other words, if you are a “good” company that values...