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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Many authors tell tales of receiving enough rejection letters from agents and publishers to wallpaper an entire room before landing a deal. I was fortunate. Two weeks after sending my proposal out, I got an agent, and a week later I was signing a deal with John Wiley & Sons, Inc. to publish The Celebrity [...]

We’re here in Vegas for BlogWorld. The flight out here was sheer craziness - passengers singing songs over the intercom, toilet paper races, and our whole flight said hello to BlogWorld. I kid you not, I couldn’t make this stuff up.
Half of the Sparkplugging team is here, the rest are coming in today. Besure to [...]