Problogger’s challenge is giving me deja vú. The 31 days to a better blog challenge is supposed to be 31 days of advice/challenges to improve your blog and your writing. It’s also supposed to have a unique suggestion every day. But today’s challenge is not only focused on someone elses blog, but the ideas in the post replicate many of his other challenge posts. Not really...
We are up to day #20 of problogger’s 31DBBB challenge and I am excited to say that I have made it this far. Not every day was right on time…but I was pretty close! Today’s post is about commenting on other blogs in your niche, or those of your readers. He lists a few benefits of commenting, but I think that he is missing one...
We all know what a squeeze page is – those irritating one page sales letters that start out ‘dear friend’ and end with something like ‘it will change your life’. But problogger’s challenge today teaches us about sneeze pages. He explains it is a term that he created in the 2007 31DBBB challenge. The way that a blog works is simple – the newest articles are...
Today, Problogger challenged us to write a post that solves a problem for our readers. He provides 7 ways to identify the problems that need solving: 1. Solve Your Own Problems: Well now, if I could do that one, life would be much easier ! But, I have written a few posts that are attempts at solving a few of my problems. The most recent...
For the longest time, I never had an image show up when I was posting comments…even on my own blog! Finally, I did some simple investigating and found gravatar.com. According to their site: A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things. Avatars help identify your posts on blogs...
I often write about how amazing my twitter followers are, but I can never say it enough. This time @beachpig came to my rescue when determining today’s writing topic. His recommendation: “How to come on strong when you don’t think you have it in you!”. These 7 tips are motivation, ideas and goals that you must have in mind to become a stronger and more...
I am often amazed at the lack of real people that I talk to anymore. Today I tried calling for a question about my credit card** and it took me through a series of ‘press # if…’ for 10 minutes before I had pressed zero enough times got me to an operator. So of course, during those 10 minutes, I got to thinking about how...
We are not all the best. We don’t all belong on alltop.com. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get there someday. Yes, it would be great to be Steve Jobs or Michael Eisner without doing a thing. Be at the top of your industry, have everyone desire to have a company like yours. But that isn’t the reality for 99.9% of us. So, we work...
I am a big fan of stuff, but organized stuff. I may actually be a tad OCD (but I’d never admit to it!). In doing some furniture research for our *hopefully* new condo, I stumbled upon some very creative cabinets. Not only were they creative in the visual sense, but the thought process that it took to come up with some of these ideas shows a...
