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 [...]

After facilitating an enlightening panel on podcasting with audio and video, I got to pick the brain of Jim Kukral a bit more and get some great tips on how to get started with video blogging.
Jim points out that online video is really not that difficult. He uses a $150 Flip Video Camcorder and a [...]

I caught up with Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, after the SEO session at Blog World Expo and asked him what the key motivating factor was that catalyzed his pursuit of the 4-hour work week.
Tim also points out that excessive action is a form [...]

I asked Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos, at the end of our interview on how to use social media to promote your eCommerce business the following question - “If you had it to do all over again, what would you do different?”
His answer might surprise you!

I’m usually much better about getting my photos up after a conference. It just seemed like there was an awful lot of recovering that had to happen this week!
Go & check out our BlogWorld photos on Flickr. If you have photos on Flickr (or anywhere else) from BlogWorld08, please leave a link to them [...]

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.  [...]

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 [...]