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!

As freelance writers, we have devoted a whole lot of our time to writing SEO articles. It was fun to meet an actual SEO organization in the flesh while at BlogWorld. The thing that we liked about this SEO Champion was their focus on “organic” optimization. We are big fans of writing [...]

Unfortunately, Tamara and I are not so tech-savvy when it comes to things like…um…tech. So, we’re really grateful for the help of people who are able to set up and design blogs and web sites. If it wasn’t for them, the two of us would probably be painting on cave walls or something.
Unique [...]

I recently took Susan’s press release writing class at SparkplugU, and she had some great things to say about PR Web. As you can imagine, I was pretty excited to see them at BlogWorld. Basically, their service helps you get your press releases into the hands of the right media outlets. I [...]

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 [...]

A little over two years ago, I heard a recording of a guy talking about how to start a small business blog.  It sounded interesting, and a couple weeks later I started my first blog, “Organize.Simplify.Transform”.  That guy was Rich Brooks, and I had a chance to catch up with him at BlogWorld this year.  [...]

Business Coaching and Blogging Evangelist, Des Walsh agrees that making the time to blog is burdensome for some business owners. In this video he suggests reframing the problem to find the solution. Blogging can offer substantial increases in business if you see it as an investment of time. Des also offers advice for the weary [...]

It was my first time at the BlogWorldExpo and I learned all sorts of new things. But I was very curious what Erin Kotecki Vest, a veteran blogger and journalist, was learning this year at the conference, since compared to me she knows everything! (Erin Kotecki Vest is the Political Director and Election 08 [...]

I mentioned before that we’re not endorsing any of the vendors featured here as a result of our joint Sparkplugging/Epson adventure to BlogWorld. It was more a matter of which booths had someone available to give a spiel in front of the new Flip cameras. Having said that, however, I’m pretty glad we [...]

One of the biggest highlights of BlogWorld Expo 2008 for us was the opportunity to meet Deb Ng. She’s been inspiring and educating us since we started our company. Tamara and I have really looked to her as sort of a freelancing mentor.
Recently, Deb took a step back from her wildly successful Freelance [...]