Articles on My Blogging Journey

Shameless self promotion: 7 reasons why you should buy The New Paper tomorrow!

Okay, let me do some “shameless self promotion” here. Get The New Paper tomorrow (1 February 2007)! Why? I have 7 great reasons for you! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Because I’m featured in it! Heh! [...]

Blog Marketing for Beginners - Wonderful!

True to my “blogging addict” self, I am back up blogging in the middle of the night - it is 1am now, but I’m still feeling so excited about what has just happened over the last 5 hours. It wasn’t my first ever presentation about blogging. In fact, I’ve done it a few times before, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Merry merry bloggy Christmas!

Heh! Nope… it should be HO HO HO!!! Its Christmas! Wishing all of you my readers out there a merry merry Christmas and may all your wonderful wishes come true. Have a good one! You better watch out You better not cry You better not pout I’m telling you why Santa Claus is coming to town Santa Claus is coming [...]

Stop, Start and Continue: What will you do in 2007?

I received a Christmas video greeting message from one of my business mentors, CEO of Quest Group, Mr KC See. In the message, he suggested a method in which we can reflect and think about what to do in 2007. He says: “Stop, Start and Continue.” Let me put it in the blogging context Stop What [...]

Okay, I give up and I’m sharing, and I’ll call them…

Over at MicroPersuasion, Sleepyblogger, and 7CM Internet Marketing Blog, they call them links. ProBlogger and BlogChalkTalk calls this Speedlinking Pronet Advertising likes to play Catchup Signal Vs Noise sees them as Sunspots Successful Blog goes to the SOB cafe ConverStations says they are WhistleStops Blogger’s Blog got them as Blogosphere Highlights I’d have to be different! I’ll call them my… Bookmarks Explosion! Guess [...]

A more disciplined blogging schedule

Some time back in late November, I wrote out a schedule for my blog marketing and blogging endeavours. This schedule was designed to be a little flexible… so like I will tell myself to make at least 40 posts in 25 days, or something like that. Yesterday, I realised that I haven’t been updating the [...]

To be a top blogging trainer in Singapore, I must learn more!

I figured out a couple of days ago that if I want to really make a good living out of blog marketing, training people on blogging, and advising corporations in Singapore how to establish their blog to reach out to their stakeholders, I must learn more than WordPress and its plugins. While WordPress is a brilliant [...]