Articles for December 2006

Reflections for 2006

Since today is the last day of the year, and my first blogging year, I think I will make a post early today (erm… 5:46am) and then get on with the day with my other stuff. Its always good to do a sum up and look back at the year 2006 - not that it should [...]

Marketing and optimization strategies to help bloggers succeed

Problogger Darren Rowse urged us to find an elevator pitch for our blog, to describe our blog in less than 10 words, as he followed from Business and Blog. After much thinking, I decided my ideal was “Marketing and optimization strategies to help bloggers succeed”. Having done that, I realised that I have really strayed away from [...]

All professional bloggers are not bloggers

Amrit from Content Blog highlighted an couple of articles yesterday about people calling everything blogs. Actually, this thought was in my mind for a while, especially when I was posting about the Corporate Blogging and Internet Marketing yesterday. Its so true isn’t it? If you trace back to why blogs are called blogs in [...]

Bookmarks Explosion: 29 Dec 2006

I haven’t been reading my feeds for these two days due to the slow access, and when I did, whoa! It was a whole lot of good stuff. Here are they. If you’ve not been following the Better Business Blogging blog, do so now, but before that, check out their top 10 posts of [...]

Corporate Blogging versus Internet Marketing

Over the past few days, I’ve been reading a lot more. Since there was a poorer Internet connection (maybe I’m just too impatient), I decided that I might as well make full use of the time to get something else done! So I dug out some of my digital dust, and started reading them - [...]

Does it make sense to host your site outside the US?

After the Taiwan quakes and not having very smooth Internet access these two days, I was thinking - unless you have a very good proportion of your visitors coming in from your home country, is it ever worth hosting your site in your own country? The issue comes with two concerns. First, it is undeniable that USA [...]

Asia’s Internet access wrecked by Taiwan quake

Today, I was unable to access the majority of the overseas websites, for a large portion of the day - I thought it was my own computer, or the connection between the router that was giving me the problem, but I later verified it with a couple of other friends whom I’ve met online [...]

Blogs versus Forums

One of the issues that arise almost every time a company is thinking of using the Internet to reach out is : Should it use a blog or a forum? The thing is, both blogs and forums are very powerful tools, with the capability of creating communities on the web, and getting users to [...]

My first blog optimization project

This morning I went out to meet my Certified Professional Trainers (CPT) coach, Patrick, to seek his advice on how to go about getting started with my blog marketing training in Singapore, and also to help him to optimize his blog. Patrick is a trainer and coach by profession (hence he is my coach! :mrgreen:), and [...]

Bookmarks Explosion for Boxing Day 2006!

Here you go! Launching a new blog? Here are 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch, a post that commanded over 800 Diggs, and BloggingHelp’s additional recommendations for these tips. Be sure to go through them. If you are doing some affiliate marketing, Jason is here to share with you how to [...]
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