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Ed’s Got My Back
This morning I woke up to a nice surprise. Ed Rivis shared my book promotion with his blog readers while I was sleeping… and entrepreneurs from across the pond turned out in spades! Turns out, Ed once slipped a couple discs in his back, so he felt obliged to support my “Save a Back” campaign. […]
Continue readingThe FeedBurner Deception
FeedBurner is the #1 service for tracking blog readers through RSS. If you have a FeedBurner account, you can log-in and track how many readers you have, and whether your readership is growing or shrinking. You can even publish a widget on your blog that dynamically displays the number of blog readers you have. For […]
Continue readingMarch Traffic Levels
As you might remember, I moved my blogging activity from my Typepad account to this WordPress blog in early January. I’ve been blogging for over three years about copywriting and marketing, so it’s been interesting to monitor traffic levels on this new domain. According to MyBlogLog, this blog received 1,338 readers in March 2008, and […]
Continue readingYou Have to Read This Now
Last week I asked, “Does transparency hurt business?” With a few extreme exceptions, the consensus was no, transparency does NOT hurt business. In fact, it is a good thing in many cases. But what about a lack of transparency? What about the fabrication of a “grand illusion”? Turns out, people respond quite negatively when they […]
Continue readingDoes Frequent Blogging Encourage Bad Writing?
I’ve been blogging on at least a weekly basis since 2004. During that time, I’ve written hundreds of blog posts… and I’ve read even more. One thing I’ve noticed is that most bloggers pay little attention to the quality of their writing. To simply publish another blog post is good enough. It seems to me, […]
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