CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

In this post David Hobby from Strobist answers my question – ‘What did you do on your blog in 2007 that improved it the most?’ The one thing that I did for Strobist.com that allowed it to improve the most in 2007 was to focus my full-time attention on it. ...more

Today Seth Godin (top blogger and author of many books including The Dip) tells us (in his usual succinct style) what he did in 2007 to improve his blog the most. I showed up. Underrated, but important.

Earlier in the week I posted Blogging is Like Watching Grass Grow – a video post about the early days of blogging. I’ve had some nice feedback from it and this morning on a whim decided to do a search on Google to find out what other people thought ‘Blogging ...more

In this post Deborah Ng from Freelance Writing Jobs gives us and insight into how she improved her blog in 2007. 2007 was a year of changes for Freelance Writing Jobs. Originally, FWJ only offered listing of jobs available to freelance writers. Now it’s a resource for freelance writers and ...more

The following post on the motivations of customers is by Dean Rieck from Direct Creative. Do you understand the motivations of your blog customers? Hold on. Did I just say, “customers”? If you’re like most bloggers, you talk about “subscribers” or “traffic” or “page views.” The term “customers” may not ...more

A few weeks ago I encouraged readers to get their blog ready for Christmas. I’d be interested to hear how people have gone with it. Have you done anything different on your blog this holiday season? Perhaps it’s been posts you’ve written, design elements, getting your ads and affiliate programs ...more

This year for Christmas I’ve asked my wife if she’d give me a personal trainer. Warning – Tangent Ahead…. It’s been years since I’ve had an organized exercise routine – and while I do eat reasonably healthily and attempt to walk regularly – I’ve gradually felt my body ‘slipping’ further ...more

Duff McDonald of Portfolio.com writes a piece on the Valuation of Drudge Report and tries to come up with a valuation based upon three methods (eyeballs, ad value and ‘ask his mother what it’s worth’). Somewhere between it all they value it at between $10M-$20M.

Do you have a headshot handy that you could send to a media organization quickly? Today I got an email from a rather large media publication requesting a picture of me for an article that they might include me in (they were being a little cagey and wouldn’t actually say ...more