Archive for the 'Writing' Category

Becky McRay tells how and why you can position yourself as an expert through blogging. Here are the key elements you must recognize in your blogging quest… *You need no one’s permission to start. *You can choose any topic you are passionate about. *State your purpose/niche/approach early on. *Link to authorities and add your thoughts. [...]

Steven Weber has a good review of what he considers to be wasteful advertising dollars: a service offering paid reviews through Amazon.com’s “Book Surge” publishing service. For $399 you can get a supposedly “big name” author to write a paid, gushing review that’s supposed to make you rich on the royalties. I wonder if you’d [...]

Did you know there were dangers to article syndication using venues like EzineArticles.com? Yes! Steve Weber makes a good point in this blog post about the dangers of duplicate content. Now, it IS GOOD to use these sites to get links back to your main website. Syndicating articles can create good traffic streams for your [...]

Are you a high quality technical writer? You may be Google material! Technical Writer, Partner Solutions Organization – Mountain View This position is based in Mountain View, CA. Google’s Partner Solutions Organization seeks an outstanding Technical Writer to document Google products and services for partners who are integrating Google technology into their websites and products. [...]

It’s time to create your own media plan for 2007! Here’s a great post on the topic from EscapeCubicleNation.com I have had my eyes opened wide this year to the value of getting mainstream media to notice and promote products and services and to include expert quotes in articles.  Through the sole vehicle of this [...]

WriteToMyBlog.com is a new, free and interesting web based word processing tool to help you more effortlessly post to your weblog(s) without actually storing the data – it’s a web interface. It even allows you to post the same content to multiple blogs though the search engines frown on that. It works with all the major [...]

Bookmark Bucks is a great way to earn extra money with your computer! Most of the ideas for advertising specialties with the URL on it are products that cost money for the person trying to make a part-time or full time living off of these items. You could layout as much as $1 or more [...]

As blogging “takes off” as a source of reader friendly and reader trusted media, advertisers are seeking to tap into the markets that bloggers reach. There are a variety of “get paid to blog” systems and from time to time I mention them to you in case you are interested. Here’s another one that is [...]

In the last election, the talk about “data mining” and campaign “microniching” hit the news. The data mining even targeted folks based on where they shopped. Now small businesses can use similar techniques to achieve great direct mail results.   From Melissa Data …why are so many direct marketers failing to achieve stellar campaign results? …. 1. Start with [...]

Here’s how you can win 10 Free Blogging Book from Pro Blogger. Well, they’re not about blogging exactly but the “ProBlogger” himself loves these babies and feel they help him, so maybe they’ll help you too. I’m going to randomly pick one commenter (on any ProBlogger post) to receive all ten books. To be eligible [...]