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What would I do…

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…if I won a blogging trip to Australia? What? A blogging trip? Yes! A few weeks ago, I read a post on Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger blog. He shared… A year ago I was in Queensland for a conference and, sitting at the airport, I had the crazy idea that we should run a ProBlogger Down Under [...]

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Blogging and content marketing trends for this week @ e1evation

Happy Monday! Time to talk about trends in blogging and content marketing. First, though, a confession. I accidentally used decaf instead of regular and I’ve been dragging my butt around all day. This blog is fueled by coffee and now that I’ve had a good cup, life can start [at 3:27PM]! Here’s my bias; blogging [...]

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Tools I use; 31 days to build a better blog

During the course of September, I’m working through Darren Rowse‘s ebook “31 days to build a better blog”. First assignment? Create an ‘elevator pitch‘. Here’s what I have so far… Short version? “e1evation.com is about educating, equipping and empowering” Long version? e1evation.com is about marketing, sales and technology for small business owners, non-profits and academic institutions. [...]

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Shareaholic…

Here’s my new, favorite Firefox plugin… “Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader notes, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, and ycombinator. You can also e-mail the web page directly [...]

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10 Tips for Opening Your Next Blog Post

Having trouble posting? Listen to Darren Rowse… We all have a message drummed into us throughout life: people make snap judgements on you based upon the first impression you give. In many instances, those judgements are lasting ones.* The same is true for your blog posts. Your opening line really does matter—readers will make a [...]

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10 Hard Truths About Blogging

With job satisfaction rates at record lows and more and more people looking to enjoy a higher quality of life, millions of people are desperately trying to leave their miserable jobs and are flocking to the world of blogging and Internet marketing.If you’re already a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, [...]

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Just in the nick of time…

…Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has some suggestions for getting back into blogging after a vacation… “Yesterday was my first day back at blogging after a 10 day vacation with my family and on Twitter I commented that I was finding it a little hard to get my brain back into blogging mode. @Mikeachim responded by [...]

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WordPress rulez!

There’s a blogging faceoff going on over at Mashable [you can participate here]. When I voted, these were the results… 33% of the top blogs in the world use WordPress and so do I!

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Home bases and outposts…

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has been reading my mail. Or attending my seminars. Or both. Seriously, he does a great job in this video of explaining some of the tactics that I use to drive traffic to my blog…

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IMNOTAWRITER

Image by kk+ via Flickr Whenever I present on the topic of ‘practical, tactical social media’ organizational leaders usually like what they hear about social media and how to implement it to build their brands online until they hear that in order to achieve maximum results, they’ll have to post a thought every day for [...]

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