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September 5th, 2007

How to Promote Your Weblog for Free

There are millions of bloggers who spend lots of time on their blogs everyday. Most of them are really good and can write very well but they give up after a while.
Why? Because of the lack of traffic.
Traffic is the most valuable thing over the internet and even the best and most beautiful websites and […]

By guys -- 3 comments

August 31st, 2007

Moving Right Along

In my post here on August 7th, I announced that b5media were looking for a new host for this blog, as I was planning to move along. Subsequently, an ad was placed on the Problogger job board.
There has been an excellent response and although it’s not my decision as to who the next person would […]

By Des Walsh -- 4 comments

August 31st, 2007

Globlogging’s Explosive Growth

Today’s guest blogger, Hal Licino, points to some interesting statistics on the languages of blogging and lays claim to a neologism.
At the height of the Roman Empire, the single lingua franca of Latin was used as the official language of commerce and literature from Scotland to the Nile. Latin became an overlay onto the myriad […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

August 29th, 2007

What’s Your Blogging ROI?

Our guest blogger today, brand catalyst Nina Burokas, looks at the blogging question every business owner needs to be able to answer.
What’s your blogging ROI?
And does it really matter?
Biz Blogging…WORKS. It is of…MONUMENTAL IMPORTANCE. (Or can be.)
- Tom Peters, Foreword to Naked Conversations
Last year, ProBlogger picked up a conversation thread […]

By Des Walsh -- 9 comments

August 29th, 2007

Chicago Blog Business Summit Cancelled

A few days ago I wrote here, enthusiastically, about the scheduled Blog Business Summit event scheduled for Chicago in September. And I was so enthusiastic, I wrote about it also on my Thinking Home Business blog.
I concluded the post on this site with a mention of the fact that I had not so far been […]

By Des Walsh -- 7 comments

August 28th, 2007

8 Answers to the Question: Why do you bother?

Guest blogger Andrew Garrett provides eight good reasons for blogging as part of your business.

From the outside, spending valuable business time writing a blog looks like you’re wasting time.
From the inside, it’s hard work, but can still feel a little disconnected from your day to day operations.
The value we get from weblogging is hard […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

August 28th, 2007

Beat Bad Buzz by Tracking Your Own Brand in the Blogosphere

Guest blogger Brittney Gilbert offers some practical advice for companies wanting to guard against bad buzz from the blogosphere.
When widely read blogger Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, AKA Internet Rockstar bought a Dell computer that bit the dust on him, he took to complaining about it on his website. He wrote several entries about “the lemon” […]

By Des Walsh -- 8 comments

August 24th, 2007

Blog Business Summit Programs January 2005 and September 2007

The next Blog Business Summit is only a few weeks away now. The event is to be held in Chicago, 17-19 September, and its structure is an interesting reflection of how blogging in the business sector has evolved since the first Summit in January 2005 in Seattle. (NOTE: the Chicago event scheduled for September has […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

August 23rd, 2007

Sean Kelly’s Classic Post - It’s Fun Being Me: The Marketing Secrets of Denny Crane

This is the second of two guest posts this week by Sean Kelly, b5media Business Channel colleague who authors Franchise Pick. Happily, Sean has offered for re-posting here his classic Denny Crane post which appeared originally on Franchise Pick on May 21, 2007. You don’t *have* to love/hate/be appalled by/disbelieve/fall about laughing at the antics […]

By Des Walsh -- 0 comments

August 21st, 2007

Practical Guide for Setting Up a WordPress Blog

On Sarah Lewis’ new WordPress QuickStart site there is a set of excellent videos to help even the most non-technical person get up and running with a WordPress site.
Sarah is a blog developer and one of my co-moderators on the LinkedIn Bloggers forum.
Note that the site is about installing a downloadable WordPress.org site, not a […]

By Des Walsh -- 4 comments

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