Sunday night I was watching Conan O’Brien on Inside the Actor’s Studio. During the interview Conan talked about how as a university student he plastered the campus with caricatures of himself. When people asked him why, he told them it was advanced advertising for the Conan O’Brien Show he planned to have some day. The […]
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This week’s host of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is Barbara Weibel at Hole in the Donut blog. Barbara’s personal story is one that many baby boomer entrepreneurs can relate to. After years of working in jobs that paid the bills but didn’t inspire, an outside event forced her to take a closer look at her
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I assume that anyone who is blogging wants to build traffic – increase readers. And if you’re blogging for business, not for pleasure, there’s nothing to assume. But not all blog posts are created equal. Some get tons of traffic and some are ignored. Some ignite a ton of comments and some leave you wondering
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Since I’m new to social bookmarking myself, I thought I’d ask my LinkedIn network for their thoughts. As always, I got some great ideas from them, including strategies I might not have thought up myself. On of the main uses of social bookmarking is sharing of links. Whether it’s for people using multiple computers (one
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Like all things social media, social bookmarking is something I have known about for a while but have hesitated using because I didn’t really understand it. However recently a few friends have convinced me of the benefits. I’ve spent some time using both Delicious (formerly Del.icio.us) and StumbleUpon, added plug-ins for both sites to my
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Thanks to Janet Barclay’s Tweet this morning, I’ve discovered an interesting new tool called Loaded Web. The folks at Loaded Web are “trying to be the first purely geo-based blog directory. This means we want to organize blogs primarily by geography – where the blogger is from.” They are doing the same for Twitter. Why
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This week’s host of the Blogging Boomers Carnival is Dina at This Marriage Thing. Dina writes about the ups and downs of marriage in your boomer years. In addition to Dina, this week’s Blogging Boomers Carnival includes posts about Barbara Weibel’s foray into opera, alternatives to the middle-aged mini skirt, moving away from anger, responsiblity
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As an entrepreneur without a business degree (I studied history and then journalism) I’ve had to spend a lot of time learning on my own. This has meant reading a variety of business books. However, even if I had an MBA, I suspect I’d still be doing a lot of reading. Things change so fast,
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Knowing how much to share of yourself is one of the biggest stumbling blocks people have about social media. In traditional marketing you are talking about the product or the results the product achieves, not yourself. But social media turns that on its head. People expect you to talk about yourself. And that’s not a
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I often hear from people who spent some time on Facebook or LinkedIn but eventually gave up because they just didn’t see results. Others keep going but are telling me they don’t know if it’s working. If you’re not seeing results – or you’re just not sure what they are – you need to take
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