Archive for About Blogs – Page 53

Is The Blog Squad Breaking Up?

By Patsi Krakoff
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007

Broken_heart2 No, we’re not breaking up, but we are having a squabble! Denise wants to discount all our blogging products by half! I say she’s breaking my heart in half! I finally agreed to this sale, but for one day only – Valentine’s Day.

She says I’m stingy. I say she’s crazy. Well, she says she just wants all you aspiring bloggers to have the best help you can get to start a blog and optimize it for getting new clients and making money.

Okay, but you gotta act fast. Stroke of midnight ET Wednesday, these prices disappear.

So click the link below now to benefit from the ‘Break My Heart in Half’ Valentine Blogging Sale.

     http://www.theblogsquad.net/VDay

Blog on!

Patsi Krakoff
The Blog Squad

P.S. Remember, this sale ends at midnight Eastern Time on February 14.
http://www.theblogsquad.net/VDay

Categories : About Blogs

Blogging & Beyond: Attract, Sell, Profit

By Patsi Krakoff
Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

Tune in this Thursday, February 15, at 11 a.m. ET for The Blog Squad’s sixth Internet radio show on VoiceAmerica channel:

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Categories : About Blogs

Dave Taylor Is Really Clear About Why Blogs Are Good for Business

By Patsi Krakoff
Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Anyone doing business on the Internet should be blogging.  Don’t listen to just me, or Denise. Listen to Dave Taylor. After all, Dave has published over 19 books on tech and business issues, and he’s been around since the start of the Internet. He says it clearly in a way even the most naive, non-techie person can understand. Here it is: straight from the horse’s mouth…

Blogging and Beyond: Episode 4
Why You Really Need a Blog for Your Business
Guest Dave Taylor of AskDaveTaylor.com


MP3 File

Links to sites referenced in the program
Where to Find Parking Blog – Dave Taylor gave some great feedback and coaching on how Erik Feder can optimize his blog
Technorati – blog directory
Wordtracker’s free keyword suggestion tool
Dave Taylor’s blogs:  AskDaveTaylor, The Intuitive Life Business Blog, Attachment Parenting Blog

Categories : About Blogs

A Good Business Blog: Why You Really Need One

By Patsi Krakoff
Thursday, February 1st, 2007

Davetaylorgooglebook This is a late post cuz I’ve been down with a virus – not the good viral marketing kind, but the sniffly coughing kind. But better late than never. In a few minutes, we broadcast live on Internet radio our Blogging and Beyond interview with Dave Taylor, guest expert, on the Findability Factor.

Don’t miss the show: it’s on VoiceAmerica channel at 11 a.m. ET. If you do miss it, it will be posted in a couple of hours on our show blog, Blogging and Beyond. You’ll hear lots of good tips about Growing Your Business with Google (which is the title of one of Dave’s many books).

Categories : About Blogs

Blogging for Your Business: Radio Show Posted

By Patsi Krakoff
Friday, January 26th, 2007

Audiomicrophone_1 The audio from Episode 3 of Blogging and Beyond is now posted. You can listen online or download the mp3 file.  We’re working on getting the show set up as a podcast so you can get automatic downloads to your iPod or mp3 player.  In the meantime, you can listen on our site or download our free desktop player and listen live or at your convenience.

Categories : About Blogs, Teleclasses & Seminars

Blogging Is IT! Boost Yourself Into the Blogosphere

By Patsi Krakoff
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

Keyboard_world Blogging truly is a way to connect with the world. It opens doors, and sends potential clients to you without spending a lot of marketing money. But if you’re going to do a blog for your business, do it right. No free blogging stuff that leaves your blog looking like your next door teenager’s personal diary.

As The Blog Squad, Denise and I recommend Typepad, or if you are more of a techie, WordPress. Either way, you have to optimize your blog for business, otherwise you end up working for your blog, instead of the other way around. Your blog should work for your business to attract interested people into your realm.

This Thursday, January 25, at 8 a.m. PT (11 a.m. ET) on our 3rd radio show on VoiceAmerica channel,  Blogging and Beyond, we are talking about the important elements of a good business blog. Here’s the info on the radio show. If you  have questions you want answered on the show, submit them on the show blog, www.BloggingandBeyond.com.

Categories : About Blogs, Teleclasses & Seminars, Writing Great Blog Content

Blogging Isn’t IT! The Blog Squad Reveals Blogging and Beyond

By Patsi Krakoff
Friday, January 12th, 2007

We launched our Internet radio show Blogging and Beyond yesterday on the VoiceAmerica channel, and told listeners why having a great blog may not be enough if they want to grow business and leverage the power of the Internet. You can listen to the show here.

(I was afraid my voice might get squeeky as it sometimes does, so I kept sucking on a lemon between breaks. I hear all the opera singers do that.)

I suggest you listen in to the show: we tell listeners what else they will need to leverage the power of the Internet to grow business. And, we interviewed our fabulous Ideal Client contest winner, Erik Feder. Erik already has a unique business and is using the Internet, and we will be coaching him live on the show each week to improve what he’s doing. Learn more by subscribing to our Blogging and Beyond blog.

Of course, if you really want to get more involved, you can still join the Blogging and Beyond Mentor Group that will be implementing simple online tools to grow your own business: www.BlogSquadContest.com/mentor.

Categories : About Blogs, Ezine & Blog Classes, Online Marketing, Teleclasses & Seminars

Findability: Can Anyone Find You Online?

By Patsi Krakoff
Monday, January 1st, 2007

Corporate Blogging Guru Debbie Weil endorses The Blog Squad…

"Denise and Patsi, two of my favorite blogging experts, have pegged exactly why your business needs a blog: to get found online. Heck, if you don’t come up on the first page of  search results, you don’t exist. Learn how to control your Google results with this fun, fast and super useful 13 week tutorial."

Debbie_headshot – Debbie Weil is a corporate and CEO blogging consultant and author of The Corporate Blogging Book (Penguin Portfolio 2006).

Categories : About Blogs, Online Marketing, Teleclasses & Seminars

Blog Memed: I’ve Been Hit, Tag, Your Next!

By Patsi Krakoff
Friday, December 15th, 2006

Today I was "memed" by Denise Wakeman who was memed earlier by Paul Chaney who was memed by Diva Toby Bloomberg.  This is a game going around the blogosphere where you reveal What 5 Things You Don’t Know About Me.

A meme is like a thought virus or a cultural virus that gets passed on, usually organically.  In this case, the meme is getting passed around strategically by bloggers.  It’s a good way to introduce you to other blogger friends and for readers to learn more about me and the others already memed. 

Here’s the definition from Wiktionary:

Any unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another. Examples might include thoughts, ideas, theories, practices, habits, songs, dances and moods and terms such as race, culture, ethnicity etc.

OK, here goes…5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Me:

(Tag! You’re it: Dr. Charlie Parker, Paulette Ensign, Penny Sansevieri, Ian Griffin, and Bud Bilanich, the Common Sense Guy.)

Read More→

Categories : About Blogs

Ezine Trend? A Blog-zine Launched by Debbie Weil

By Patsi Krakoff
Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

Corporateblogging I think of Debbie Weil as a sort of "fairy blog mother," since I started my first blog due to her persistent blog evangelism way back when. She is a champion of corporate blogging and author of the book The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right (Penguin Portfolio 2006). 

So when Debbie Weil writes about a something new, I pay attention. Now Debbie has killed her newsletter. Or rather, transformed it into a blog. She saves time and energy, and can get instant feedback from readers through comments. Subscribers get an email update and are directed to the blog. She also sends out a short text-only version of WordBiz Report.

She writes about her reasons why she decided to combine her e-newsletter with a blog, and it’s an interesting read.

If you struggle with writing and formatting (not to mention email delivery problems), then you want to read her post and gets the details on how she is doing this.

What do you think? Is this going to be a trend? Are more newsletters going to be published and delivered onto blogs, avoiding crowded inboxes? Let me know your thoughts.

Categories : About Blogs, Managing Your Ezine & Blog Tasks
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