How to Best Pitch Bloggers - a Virtual Group Interview
Most bloggers with a fair number of readers and especially a prominent ranking in Technorati or Google experience been pitched by fellow bloggers, pr firms or companies who want to gain exposure for something or someone more or less frequently. You may even pitch bloggers yourself. In fact practically everyone does when they first start out I believe. Anyone having something to sell or promote including themselves or their writing should thus be able to benefit from the answers provided by the participants in this virtual interview.
Daily Blog Tips’ Blog Project: Three - My Five Top Picks
Daily Blog Tips decided to kick start July in great style with a blog project called “Blog Project: Three” (complete entry list here). More than hundred blogs participated. No wonder when you not only have a chance to win money and raise your Technorati authority, but also gain a lot of new readers. As you can imagine was I mostly motivated by the latter as I wrote my contribution: What “The 3 Little Pigs” Can Teach You About Blogging. It took me several hours, but at least I think I came up with something, which is well worth …
Comments or No Comments That Is the Question - or Is It?
Apparently is there about once a year an omnipresent war on words going on about whether a blog that doesn’t allow comments is indeed a blog. As with most heated discussions is the interesting aspect not so much who is right or wrong, but what you can learn from it. The real substance lies in the middle so to speak. It is thus more interesting to look at why you would lean in one direction or the other as in which direction you are actually leaning. Matthew Ingram, one of the most prominent bloggers who was against calling a blog …
Blog Branding or There is More to Branding Than Marking Cows
In recent weeks branding have been a theme on a number of blogs. More of the blogs in my feed reader had posts about branding. To be honest am I not a big fan of the branding concept as such. I even learned about it when studying, but seem to have managed to forget almost everything about it. Thinking positively about a concept originally used to describe pressing a glowing hot piece of iron against the butt of a cow to determine ownership was just not happening. However since Chris Garrett actually managed to write a whole series of great …
Communicate Who You Are to Elevate Your Content and Make Connections
Although Circular Communication still is in it’s infancy have I already been blessed with a number of prominent visitors. Truth be told I (directly or indirectly) invited them to come and if I knew where to find you I may invite you to. One of the reasons I knew who to invite and how to invite them was that they write who they are and how to contact them on their blogs. Among them was Lorelle who when she visited luckily didn’t ask Who the Hell are you?, but instead struck up a conversation despite not knowing the first …
