Written on October 25th, 2004 at 05:10 pm by Darren Rowse

10 No-Cost Ways to Generate Site Traffic

Blog Promotion 2 comments

‘No matter how cool your site or how fabulous your product, you’re not going to generate enough sales to make your business viable unless you can generate traffic. You have to get the word out about your site and give people a reason to visit it, or else you’ll go the way of the dinosaur.

The […]

Written on October 25th, 2004 at 06:10 am by Darren Rowse

The Impact of Blogs on PR

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Steve from Micro Persuasion has kindly posted a presentation he did on the Impact of Blogs on PR. It is a well thought out presentation that covers the basics through to some good conclusions on the topic - complete with powerpoint slides and audio.

‘Bloggers are the leading force of change here. A blog is basically […]

Written on October 20th, 2004 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse

BloggerCon - Making Money with Your Blog

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Doc Searls has an interesting post on making money with blogs in preparation for a session on the topic at the next Blogger Con. He asks a lot of thought provoking questions and then puts forward an interesting case…

‘As you can see, I have a position here. I believe it’s far more important (and interesting) […]

Written on October 19th, 2004 at 04:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Blogs and Newspapers - Command Post

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The Command Post did a talk to editors of Associate Press newspapers recently and put the content of what he said up online - its well worth the read.

‘Here’s the lesson from Command Post: information in general, and news in particular, is now a flow, and not a stock.

Before the internet, information was governed […]

Written on October 19th, 2004 at 03:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Corporate Bloggers

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Sifry is writing about Corporate Blogger today - he numbers them as 5000:

‘These are people who blog in an official or semi-official capacity at a company, or are so affiliated with the company where they work that even though they are not officially spokespeople for the company, they are clearly affiliated. For example, the folks […]

Written on October 19th, 2004 at 08:10 am by Darren Rowse

Do you have time to be a enternetusers?

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I’m currently taking a bit of a working holiday in New Zealand and am spending a few days with two fellow bloggers to talk about the possibilities of working together as a blogging collective. One of the things I’ve found myself thinking on a number of occasions over the last few days is that it […]

Written on October 15th, 2004 at 01:10 pm by Darren Rowse

Micropayments and Blogging

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When I was in my first year of high school I met a guy who would change my life - ok he didn’t really change it, but he taught me a lesson which I still use today in my pro-blogging. He taught me that if you aim small you can actually make it big! Indulge […]

Written on October 15th, 2004 at 10:10 am by Darren Rowse

Blog Advertising - Fear and Ignorance Keep Media Buyers Away

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Advertisers including Paramount Pictures, The Wall Street Journal, and The Gap are successfully reaching niche audiences for a fraction of the cost of traditional advertising and a handful of bloggers are earning six-figure incomes from their blogs. Why aren’t more advertisers and bloggers getting together? Fear, ignorance and the knowledge that a lot of pioneers […]

Written on October 15th, 2004 at 09:10 am by Darren Rowse

Article Swapping

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Wayne over at Blog Business World has a good article on Article Swapping as a strategy to increase the content on your blog. If you can ensure the quality of your article swapping partners this is a good strategy that can double your article producing power and therefor quantity of content on your page. He […]