In case you missed it, Technorati released their State of the Blogosphere report last week. It’s always a highly anticipated report that truly carries a lot of weight in our industry. Technorati’s statistics are the most frequently cited in reference to the blogosphere. Marketers, agencies, business owners and the mainstream media rely on these statistics [...]

Going to this year’s BlogWorld (enjoy the pics) was a real treat for me. First of all, it was my very first blogging conference – yay! Secondly, it was paid for by our wonderful sponsor, Epson – yay again! The list goes on and on: I met most of the other SparkPlugging authors, what a [...]

We know business is done on the state and local level.  That’s why the Business Gateway program has been working with state and local governments in addition to Federal agencies to provide a complete resource center for your business on Business.gov.  Each month, the site promotes a “feature city” on the homepage and further provides [...]

By day, he’s a heart throb on a popular soap opera. Actor Colin Egglesfield plays Erica Kane’s son, Josh Madden on “All My Children”. But at night Egglesfield is building his amazing business, Shout Out Tees or he’s tutoring high school kids.
What exactly are Shout Out Tees?  Think of them as tees that make the [...]

I’m finding lately that people can’t get me to stop talking about Twitter. Even when I was supposed to speak at the Online Marketing for Women Entrepreneurs Conference about blogging a few weeks ago, I had to take 3 minutes to talk about the power of Twitter.
I realize a lot of people don’t get Twitter. [...]

Most people would say that they know how to network. However, there are components of networking that will assist you tin achieving better results for the individual. The key to networking is to grow those relationships, expand your reach and get known by others while embracing your uniqueness and integrity.
Know Your Audience – One thing [...]

Many of today’s bloggers (luckily) weren’t around last year when Google completely shook up the blogosphere with their crack down on paid links. Whether you agree or not with Google’s stance on the issue, Google felt like companies were too easily able to game their search engine rankings within the search engines by buying links [...]