Blogging the Hero’s Journey

Last week I discussed profile writing as an alternative to just printing a regular interview. This week, I want to take that a step further and discuss writing a profile as a life story. Writing a life story might seem a bit daunting, but if you have the right outline you can stay on track and create an original, interesting article. The outline we are going to use is the “Hero’s Journey” …

Sara Christensen Written by Sara Christensen from Pajama Professional
Posted on November 21st, 2007 and filed under Blogging, Writing
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Win a copy of the fantastic new Premium News Wordpress Theme

Adriaan Pienaar emailed me the other day as he was interested in advertising his new Premium News Wordpress Theme on BloggingTips. Not only that, he also wants to give away 2 copies of the theme to Blogging Tips readers (worth $99 each).

More info on the Premium News Theme

The Premium News Wordpress Theme is a professional looking wordpress theme which was designed for magazine and news type sites. You could …

Kevin Muldoon Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on November 21st, 2007 and filed under Competitions
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Branding and Advertising: Using your Blog to Build your Brand

Small business people rarely give much thought to building their business’s brand. Large companies have marketing departments to take care of this. So that’s “branding” and why should you care?

Essentially branding is building awareness of your business: creating an identity that’s instantly recognized. Businesses undertake branding strategies for their long term effects: becoming known for what they do.

Contrast this with advertising. Advertising is expensive and all advertising has a life span: …

angela Written by angela from Blogging For Dollars
Posted on November 21st, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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How to connect to the inactive readers at your blog?

Have you seen the difference in the actual traffic of your site and the number of participants/active users? I bet it’s huge. I recall Darren stating once that only less than 10-30% of his visitors comment on his blog.
So there’s a huge potential with the inactive visitors to your blog. How do you trap (if that’s the wrong word, attract) them?
First let’s see why there’s a huge gap between active and inactive …

Mani Karthik Written by Mani Karthik from Daily SEO Blog
Posted on November 21st, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Use your blog as a platform for bigger things

Yesterday CashQuests.com sold for $15,000 on SitePoint. I knew that the site would sell however even I was surprised with the speed at which the site was sold. It sold for the ‘buy it now’ within a few hours.

Mani Karthik spoke about this subject today and so did Mark Wielgus. Mark pointed out that 5xMom.com is on sale for $10,000 (see here). I really think that …

Kevin Muldoon Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on November 20th, 2007 and filed under Blogging
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Finding the Right Social Bookmarking Sites

On many sites, you will now see a huge cube of buttons for social bookmarking sites. While it’s always nice to give your reader options, I think this is pretty useless for most blogs. In fact, I think it just becomes too much information and background noise to your readers.

What makes more sense is to find a select group of social bookmarking sites that make sense for your topic. One way to …

kelbycarr Written by kelbycarr from Kelby Carr
Posted on November 20th, 2007 and filed under Promote your blog, Search Engine Optimisation
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Links Roundup – November 20th 2007

Get your family excited about blogging with a Google Party! – How deliciious does that cake look!!!

Daily Bits – Daniel Scocco adds a new technology based blog to his fast growing network.

The Economics Behind Selling Blog Advertising – A good guide on how advertising works.

How many people does it take to develop a great blog? – A good post from Better Business Blogging.

CashQuests Sold For $15k

Kevin Muldoon Written by Kevin Muldoon from Blog Themes Club
Posted on November 20th, 2007 and filed under Links
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