What Can We Learn From The Top 25 Marketing Blogs?
Marketing blogs are very near and dear to my heart. Obviously… because I’m a marketer, and blogger, myself, go figure eh? The Viral Garden, written by Mack Collier puts out a list of the top 25 marketing blogs every week which I like to review. It’s a good insight into what other marketers like myself are doing. What they’re blogging about… why they are successful, etc… Recently I thought it would be fun to analyze the top 25 list to see... Read More »
Two Wordpress Must Have Items
When you use Wordpress every day like I do, across multiple blogs, you start looking for the coolest and most useful plugins and tools to make your experience for yourself, and your readers better. Over the last few days, I’ve found two things I have to share with you. #1 Cool Wordpress Thing Did you know that you can make your admin look different? Yep, thanks to Sam on Twitter, I found out about a Wordpress admin design called Tiger. Wow, what a difference! It’s... Read More »
How To Sell A $100,000 Sponsorship For Your Blog
Joel Cheesman is a blogger in a niche of career/recruiting. Early in 2007 Joel sold a one-year sponsorship for his award-winning blog, Cheezhead.com, to Jobcentral.com for $100k. I recently interviewed Joel via email to find out how he did it, and how you can do it to. Jim Kukral: Was it your idea to sell your entire blog or did the sponsor suggest it? Joel: Mine. Jim’s Analysis: It just goes to show that success comes to those who ask for it. Decide what you want,... Read More »
I Just Resigned From ReveNews
I just posted my farewell post over at ReveNews. Today was my last day as Publisher. My first blog entry at ReveNews was on March 1, 2005. Three months later in June 2005 I was officially handed the keys to the ReveNews community car. And I drove it pretty hard that first year. In fact, I don’t think I slept much behind the wheel that first year. So here we are 3-months into 2007 and I am announcing that I’m officially handing the keys to ReveNews back to Wayne... Read More »
Entrepreneurial & Success Blogs Wanted For New BUMPzee Online Success Community
I’ve been hard at work adding blogs to my How To Be Successful Online BUMPzee community. You can read more about the community launch in my previous entry here. Tonight I added about 30 new blogs into the community, all focused around providing content that is either about being an online entrepreneur, or just simply about helping online entrepreneurs succeed online. If you have a blog that is focused on those types of things, go and see if I added your blog. If not,... Read More »
New BUMPzee Community Launched Today: How To Be Successful Online
You all know how much I love BUMPzee! Well, I love it even more now that I was chosen as one of the select few to manage my very own community while it’s still in beta. So what community did I make? Introducing the ‘How To Be Successful Online’ BUMPzee Community Bookmark this: http://www.bumpzee.com/onlinesuccess/ What is the community all about? The How To Be Successful Online community is for anyone who is interested in learning how to be successful on... Read More »
Online Conversations & Business Blogging Insights From The Void
Hugh from Gapingvoid.com summarizes a talk he gave to the fabled PR agency Edelman. These 16 learning points pretty much sum up all intelligent thought on business blogging, online conversations and more. Do yourself a favor, click here, go read it and thank me later. My favorite tidbits? 5. The growth will come, I believe, not by yet more increased efficiencies, but by humanification. For example, take two well-known airlines. They both perform a useful service. They both... Read More »
