Shama Hyder invited Mari Smith to chime in on her wonderful FaceBook presentation at Blog World. In this video, Mari talks about making friends with key, influential people on FaceBook. An info-packed 5 minutes from BlogWorld 08.Thanks Mari!

If you want some solid on-line marketing advice, watch this video featuring Shama Hyder’s panel presentation at BlogWorld. Naturally, there were a number of outstanding speakers at the expo, but I really enjoyed Shama’s no-nonsense approach to marketing your blog. Shama has the 1-2-3’s down and presents her information in a straight-forward, logical approach. Shama [...]

Here are some highlights from the Twitter panel discussion at BlogWorld. Interesting stuff - especially to a  Twitter newbie like me . . . It did convince me to start using Twitter more! Follow me @KristieMcDonald
We heard from Twitter experts Stowe Boyd/@stoweboyd, Laura Fitton/@pistachio, Tony Hsieh/@zappos, Lucretia Pruitt/@geekmommy and Erin Kotecki [...]

Panel: Rohit Bhargava, Timothy Ferriss & Mike Shinoda
Some shorthand notes:
Mike Shinoda (of Linkin Park):
Know how Linkin Park got their name? It involves a park in LA and changing the name to get the “dot com” for their website.
Tim Ferriss (author of The 4 Hour Work Week):
He wrote his book first, and used the blog to [...]

Shama Hyder gave a terrific presentation at BlogWorld Exp 2008 on Facebook. Not only did she give us a ton of tips on how to use Facebook, she invited a couple of guest speakers, including Mari Smith, up to share their expertise as well.
Some of my takeaways were:
1. Be yourself and build relationships, but [...]

The primary lesson I learned at the BlogWorldExpo is that the best way to monetize your blog is through direct ad sales and affiliate marketing. That’s why I asked Jessie Jones, the CEO of PopShops.com, for advice on how to be successful with affiliate marketing. (PopShops.com is the world’s largest affiliate database and was awarded [...]

I admit it, my big blogging dream is to get a corporate sponsorship! Then I can say goodbye to “welfare for webmasters” (i.e., Google AdSense) and can stop obssessing about CPM rates. If you too are looking for a company to sponsor your blog, here is some advice from Geoff Nelson of BuzzCorps.com, whose marketing [...]

Patrick O’Keefe put together a great panel at BlogWorld on Avoiding Disaster: How Not to Use Social Media. He was awfully kind to give some credit for the panel idea to me as he said it was inspired by my post 10 Social Media Blunders that Can Destroy Your Brand. Patrick had Jason Falls, Darren [...]

The question on many bloggers minds is “How Do I Make Money Online with a Blog?” Fortunately, I got the answer to that question from Darren Rowse of ProBlogger.net, John Chow of JohnChow.com, Zac Johnson of ZacJohnson.com, and Jeremy Schoemaker of Shoemoney.com.
Here’s a little of what Darren Rowse had to say during this informative session:
Afterwards, [...]