Most bloggers know that writing viral posts is one of the most powerful ways to promote your blog. If you can get everyone linking and talking about your posts, you can generate a swarm of traffic. Quality and “uniqueness” is the key to that game. But another viral game that bloggers can play has to [...]
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Are you part of the Do Follow Movement?
Don’t worry this is not a post debating the merits of do follow blogs versus blogs that are no follow. That topic has been debated into the ground by us bloggers over the year. This is a quick post to introduce you to my new do follow blog directory. Actually, it is an old site [...]
How to rock 2011 in the last 6 months
I don’t know about you but I love new. New stuff. New days. New weeks. New years. They make me smile. The anticipation of new can be so motivating. Why else do we hold such store by making New Year’s resolutions and bucket lists? But of course those resolutions soon fall by the way side [...]
3 Awesome Ways To Really Upset Your Customers
Let’s be honest … none of us start out aiming to ruin our customer’s day. It’s not like you woke up today and thought, “Now what’s the best way I can make my favourite customer really grumpy this morning?” But how much time have you spent delighting your customers today? Or if you’re a blogger, [...]
How a 6 month old blog raised $3849 in 22 hours – and how you can too!
We’ve all seen it – the high traffic, massive list blog with its clockwork pre-launch, opening the doors to its latest and greatest offering – and selling thousands of dollars worth of business in just a few hours. It’s exciting and inspring to watch but, if we’re honest, just a little bit daunting too. Because, [...]
The Goodfella’s Guide to Chasing Away Your Customer
It’s a Friday night. You’re sat with your significant other, talking about what to have for dinner. You discuss pizza. The local Dominos has a special offer on and it’d make a lovely treat for the weekend. Don’t worry he says. I’ll go and get us something. I need to pop in and get some [...]
Are you using your blog content for all its worth?
We all know that content is the life blood to a successful blog. As a blog owner I am sure you will agree that producing quality content is one of the most challenging and time consuming activities. In addition to this blog, I own a career advice blog and I just purchased an investment blog [...]
5 Twitter Tips That Make You Look Like An Idiot
You’ve heard it all before. Twitter is great for building an audience for your business. If you want your customers to adore you, you’ve got to be on Twitter. “Twitter is to 2009 what Facebook was to 2007.” Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it’s 2011 already. Twitter is flooded with people trying persuade other people to [...]
How to write one letter and realise all your dreams for 2011
I had a polite disagreement with a man on my doorstep a couple of weeks ago. He told me that, as a Christian, I shouldn’t be celebrating Jesus’s birthday on a day that was once given over to pagan festivities. I agreed to disagree saying that, for me at least, it’s about what’s in my [...]
