Archive for February, 2008

Finding Inspiration: 5 Blogging Secrets Inside an iPod

Friday, February 29th, 2008

New here? Feel free to explore the site, leave a comment, and subscribe to get free updates from Personal PR. Thanks for stopping by!Creativity, connection, inspiration. As a blogger, these are some of the most valuable commodities, regardless of your topic or niche. So it’s nice when they surface in the most unexpected of places.
Lately, […]

7 Insider Tips for Befriending Top Bloggers (Or Anyone Online)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

Wanna become friends with the big guys?
1. Leave insightful comments on their blog. It’s probably not going to make you BFF, but it’s a step toward a relationship. You’ve got to get on a blogger’s radar screen before friendship can happen. And becoming a member of their community, adding value to their conversations, and engaging […]

Five Comments No Serious Blogger Should Ever Post

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Most people’s journey into the blogosphere goes something like: lurker to commenter to blogger. In fact, there’s a concept called participation inequality that says that about 90% of people online fall into the first group, and about 0.1% of people into the last. But those who evolve through these phases know it is a positive, […]

27 Secrets to Linking Like a Master Networker

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

As I’ve mentioned before, one of the best ways to build relationships online is using a combination of three strategies: 1) Comments 2) Links and 3) Contact. I’ve promised my readers I’d get more into this Personal PR strategy, and what better time than Brian’s recent Copyblogger headline remix challenge? So without further ado, we’ll […]

One Blogging Command and Seven Sacred Tips to Beat Burnout and Avoid the Lazysphere

Friday, February 1st, 2008

If you’re going to blog, here’s one piece of advice you should follow: write great stuff.
There are a zillion blogging tips out there, but this is the most important one. For a lot of reasons: It makes your ideas more relevant, and thus more popular, especially to the power bloggers. It works better than linkbaiting. […]