For one reason or another I stopped blogging, stopped writing. Which is a shame as I really like the process and it's something I do well (haven't the time to be modest this morning). Most of the problem is simple distraction, too much going on, too many possibilities, even too much success. Sometimes you have to reduce. Simplify. Not use the, "but it has to be perfect … [Read more...] about Getting the Blogging Mojo Back
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Mark McGuinness Reveals the Truth about Internet Marketing
Mark McGuinness has a new fan. I read this post on Creativity in business and it rocked my socks. It's the price of doing business that you have to wade through thigh high rivers of steaming..... before you get something that resonates, something that connects. Something that makes you blog and inspires you to write and freely give a bit of link love, which is of course is … [Read more...] about Mark McGuinness Reveals the Truth about Internet Marketing
Long Copy Short Copy
OK, I admit, my post on social bookmarking was a little tongue in cheek. Designed possibly to raise an eyebrow or two? Most likley, but I also like to play around with the medium of blogging. I was just about to call it an art form, but noooooo. Posts like that are designed to get you thinking. How long does a blog post have to be. My answer to that is "as long as it needs to … [Read more...] about Long Copy Short Copy
Short is not simple, it's essential
Should we twitter like we blog and blog like we twitter? Is brevity needed to cut through the information haze? If my twitter stream becomes a stream of consciousness, my blog can be more like my twitter stream used to be. I'm shortening my blog posts Reducing the amount of links in my twitter stream Twittering what I think I want to hear Increasing more links in my … [Read more...] about Short is not simple, it's essential
Keeping up with seo blogging
To me, blogging has been a means to an ends. Get clients, establish the brand, wind a few people up. The problem is of course when you get the clients you no longer have the time to blog. But, I think you still should. It keeps the mind focused, it keeps the creative gene fed with blood and oxygen, it enables you to start conversations on topics you are interested in. Problem … [Read more...] about Keeping up with seo blogging
Don't be Useful, Make Me Think
What makes me link these days is not something that is obviously useful, but rather something that gets me to think. Members of Linkbait Coaching, hopefully know that if they want a to linkbait me, this is what they have to serve up. So what got me thinking this morning was this post, titled, Don't Be Popular, be Useful, which in turn is a response to a Jonathon Morrow at … [Read more...] about Don't be Useful, Make Me Think