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Friday, December 14th, 2007
In June 2007, one of famed impressionist, Claude Monet’s, Water Lilies paintings sold at auction for $37.5 million USD. Last week, I painted a picture of water lilies, too. It hasn’t sold yet, but I’m quite sure it’ll go for at least a buck. Why do you care?
Because, if you blog, if you write, if you paint, if you create…anything, there will come a time where you look at what everyone else is doing, especially the leaders in your field, and wonder…
Posting patterns of top-bloggers revealed
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
There’s been a lot of play in the blogosphere lately about how often you should post and how long your posts should be. And, even among top bloggers, there seems to be a considerable difference in opinion.
But, there are still some major lessons to be learned by comparing the posting-patterns of top niche-bloggers, during their initial launch phase, rapid growth phase and their later “mature” phase.
The Diggbait Diet: How Digg helped me lose 5-pounds in 5-hours
Monday, November 19th, 2007
Atkins, diuretics and rubber suits, you’re so five-minutes ago. I was only three-weeks into my journey to the core of the blogosphere when I discovered the astonishing slimming power of Digg.com.
Authentic marketing: weekly column at FreelanceSwitch gets deep
Friday, November 9th, 2007Hey gang, so my weekly column is up over at FreelanceSwitch.com and it’s a doosy. This week is all about the intersection between being authentic and using conversational strategies to market yourself. Go check it out now!
Hare Krishnas reveal secret to massive link-love and mega-sales…now take your damn flower!
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Want a ton of inbound links? Want to sell mountains of product, book yourself silly or hit the bestseller list?
Think it’s all about killer content, great design and rocking service? Well, you’re half-right. But, that, alone, won’t juice you into the big-leagues in any of these professional and personal quests. There’s something else. Something really, really big. Something that plays into the very fabric of human nature.
Blog consultant marketing makeover: new case study at FreelanceSwitch
Thursday, October 25th, 2007This week, in my regular column at FreelanceSwitch.com, I launched a new advice/case-study segment called “Ask Jonathan: Freelance Marketing Breakout.” In addition to my regular column on a variety of things, I’ll be repling to e-mails for help with marketing, publicity and copy-writing from freelancers and solo biz-owners. The first case study dives into the website and marketing efforts of blog consultant, Michael Martine, so click here to check it out now.
Top bloggers reveal how to build traffic off-blog without spending a dime
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
Simple question –
“If you had 2-hours a day to devote to no-cost, off-blog (even off-line) marketing for your blog, what would you do?”
I posed this very question to a collection of some of the world’s top bloggers and social network marketers…and here’s what they revealed:
Blog Action Day
Monday, October 15th, 2007
I’ve always been a big believer in two concepts. One, that each voice counts. And, two, that just as we benefit from the gifts of society, we are similarly beholden to give back in some way, no matter how small, no matter how immediate.
Today is the first-ever Blog Action Day, where thousands of bloggers will unite to speak on the same topic–the environment–to their individual communities and, in doing so, unite all into a single worldwide community that numbers in the millions.
A New Visitor’s Guide - Start Here!
Monday, September 17th, 2007
There’s always room for an authentic voice.
Richard Branson is famous for venturing into fields where the market seems astonishingly crowded and then somehow figuring out how to serve that market in a way that is, at once, incredibly innovative, yet so “hind-sightedly” obvious it leaves everyone else scratching their heads saying, “dude, why didn’t I think of that?”
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