My latest project in the 31DBBB, was to read 27 expert blog posts. The assigned reading included a post by Seth Godin titled, “How to send a personal email.” Using his tip list, I’ve created the corollary, explaining how to alienate your readers in a few, simple steps.
Feel free to make additions in the comments! Ruin Your Blog with Email continued
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Day #6 of the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog challenge held a barrier I didn’t expect. The assignment was to read some of the best blogging advice ever written. I am the quintessential non-fiction consumer and I love blogging. This should be easy. But it wasn’t.
When I was in college, I met a woman who collected pigs. Later I met a woman who collected roosters. The idea of collecting something intrigued me and sounded fun — but I couldn’t think of anything I liked enough to collect other than gold jewelry, and that was an expensive proposition.
Eventually I came up with the idea of collecting watches. It was jewelry on the cheap. (Obviously I wasn’t going for a Rolodex collection.) I had dressy watches and casual watches. Sporty watches and elegant watches. I was on my way to having a watch for every holiday and even had a political watch (a Bill Clinton watch that ran backwards — and I wore it enough that I got used to reading it).
About a year into my new hobby the first watch battery died. Followed by another and another. And another. It was then I realized watch collecting was going to be a high maintenance hobby. I ditched it and began looking for another.
A number of months later — before the advent of Amazon —Sam and I left a bookstore laden with over $600 worth of books. He looked at me and said, “Honey, we collect books.”
Of course. Blogging Tips & Tutorials continued
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Affiliate marketing is one of the oldest professions — in internet years. And today it’s still one of the most popular ways of making money online.
Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing model between web site owners (affiliates) and merchants (who offer a product or service for sale). Affiliates are paid for performance, meaning that they make a small percentage of any sales they refer to the merchants.
Basically, it works like this: Affiliate Programs continued
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31DBBB: Day #5 Email a Blog Reader
by Alison Moore Smith on March 16, 2010
The bonus assignment has two parts:
I’d like to give one caveat to item number one. Email Blog Readers continued
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