Relationships puts you on the priority list

For bloggers who read a lot of other blogs, I’m sure that once in a while you face the same challenge as I do - your feed subscriptions are in a bloody mess! Sometimes, you need to take 2 or 3 hours to really look at each feed that you have subscribed and ask [...]

3 main reasons why readers unsubscribe from your feeds and how you can combat that

Problogger revealed another great survey done recently, with regard to why people unsubscribe from blog feeds, and it seems that the three most important factors involve the frequency of posting, partial feeds, and focus. Let’s go deeper into each one. Frequency of Posting In his survey, “too many posts” was in fact the most popular reason why people [...]

A faulty hard disk is frustrating

Updates have been slow on this blog lately, and I really apologise for that. My computer is giving me really weird problems - and as I am typing this, the other partition in my hard disk where I store all my data, is lost again. Its happened the 5th time (or 6th?) since [...]

The use of blog marketing for business

I was having a discussion with my mentor about my upcoming plans for my workshops and blogs, and frankly, I came to realise again (not that I haven’t realised it before) that this whole world is about marketing and sales. Business is about marketing and sales. Period. It is unfortunate but true, that a [...]

3 reasons why you should inject humor in your blog posts

I think one very powerful way to make your content interesting to read is to really inject humor in your blog posts - and here are 3 great reasons why you should do that! Reason #1: Humor lets your personality show We’ve heard so much about being authentic and transparent in blog posts. I think every [...]

The big fuss about comment moderation

One of the sins brought up in the recent SiteProNews article on Top 10 Sins of Blog Usability By Linda Bustos, is not moderating comments. Linda says: Allowing anyone and everyone to post whatever they want in your comments section is asking for spam. Not only is this annoying to your readers, but it really takes down [...]

Bookmarks Explosion for 15 January 2007

I was out of town for the past two days, and the Internet access was not too good. Although I could log in and reply to comments, and I had this post composed over the weekend (this was supposed to be up on Saturday), I was unable to post it! Anyway, here are [...]