Today I received what seemed like a fairly generic email from the website Dummies.com. I won’t republish the email (I’m not into that) but it was a fairly generic ‘could you link to our website’ type email asking for a link because they’ve redesigned their site. It even included a suggested link/code. My reaction was not positive - in fact within a few moments I’d tweeted that I’d had the request and wasn’t overly impressed. This post is not about

There’s nothing easier than audio content, right? Just fire up your recording software or teleseminar service and start talking away…. Well, sure… but “easy to create” doesn’t guarantee anyone will listen (or keep listening). Take some time to structure and prepare for your recording, however, and you can crank out exceptionally engaging audio content that still only takes a fraction of the time that polished writing would. Even though you’re not producing written content, what

Debates in blogging circles have raged for years now on many topics. Should a blog have full feeds or partial feeds? Is a blog a blog if it doesn’t have comments? Frequency of Posting - Should a blog post once a week, once a day or 20 times a day? Should you self host your blog or use a free blogging platform? There are many questions and issues that bloggers tend to debate when it comes to blogging and each time I ask one of these questions as a reader question it is amazing to

Photo by mikebaird. The term ’social media expert’ has been the subject of a lot of talk and a lot of controversial articles lately. People have written about the different types of social media expert, whether it’s OK to call yourself a social media expert and outlined who they believe are (and are not) experts in social media. The term has never been more commonly used. This is probably because an entire industry has bubbled up around people creating businesses and services

Photo by Gaetan Lee. If you have an online audience of any size you are often going to be asked for help and advice. You might be at the point where you can assist everyone who asks, but if your audience keeps growing this state will eventually pass you by. Or, you might already be finding it difficult to help everyone and regularly forced to say the dreaded ‘No’ word. You worry: are you losing a potential customer or client in the process? More importantly, are you making someone

Reflecting on how I have been running my blog for the past two year leads me to realize that my blog doesn’t really cater to new Bloggers. That isn’t cool at all. My articles and content are really far to advanced for new bloggers to understand. There is nothing wrong with that, but I feel like I am not providing an effective service to people who want to start blogging and secondly