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Marketing Sherpa has an article with 7 Practical Tactics to Turn Your Blog Into a Sales Machine that might be useful to business bloggers wanting to increase the effectiveness of their blog to drive sales. ‘Call us cynics. Blogs may be hip and trendy, but they don’t do diddly-squat for ...more

A few of your have emailed to ask where this week’s ProBlogger interview is. Good question friends – and one I’m asking to. Hopefully some of those who I’ve sent questions to will get something back to me shortly and we’ll keep learning from the Pros! Til then you’ll have ...more

Debbie Weil over at Marketing Profs writes a good article on Seven Tips for Blogging Your Way to a New Job. She writes quite an extensive aricle – but her main points are: 1. Start with a topic you’re passionate about 2. Concentrate on shorter, more frequent entries in your ...more

It looks like Yahoo! is getting further into the Blogging Business with their new venture to be released later this monty – Yahoo 360 – a service that combines a number of functions including blogging and social networking. Here’s how its explained at Yahoo News. ‘Yahoo Inc. is preparing to ...more

The announcements today by Google Adsense of new features (see last three posts) seem to have been strategically timed to preempt the launch of Yahoo!’s new contextual ads for small publishers. It seems that Google might be trying to strengthen their relationship with publishers by giving them new payment options ...more

Just looking over the new Adsense rules of use which were also released today and I noticed this in the confidentiality statement which SEEMS to indicate that we can now talk about the total of what we earn. It might be worth checking with Adsense before you do this publicly ...more

Google have also launched a new form of text advertising today – Adsense Ad Links where by readers of your pages are offered a list of topics that are relevant to your page which they can click to find relevant ads for that topic. Its a pretty interesting system that ...more

After months and months of lobbying by publishers Google Adsense have just announced changes to their payment system! Their site has just been updated with the new details. Now they offer checks to be sent in local currencies to 35 countries (listed below) and Electronic Funds Transfer to 15 countries ...more

Over the past few days I’ve had a number of bloggers email asking for advice on how much to charge for advertising on their blogs. I thought I’d open the question up for some discussion. How much would you charge for advertising on your site? Of course the answer would ...more