Guest Crew, a guest blogging community designed to bring professional website owners and guest bloggers together, has announced its first blogging contest. The contest is designed to be simple, and there are opportunities for up to six winners - all with cash prizes totaling $500. There are three tasks that bloggers will need to complete in order to win one of the prizes in the contest. The tasks are awarded points, and the points will be totaled over a period of time. The contestant with the … [Read more...]
Engagement From Scratch Compiled by Danny Iny: Free eBook Download ~ Win a Printed Copy
Danny Iny (@DannyIny on Twitter) from Marketing Training Company FirePole Marketing did what all wise people do when confronted with a challenge: find out first what everyone else who has tackled the same situation learned and then build on that. How to Win Your FREE Paperback Copy of Engagement from Scratch: So here's the deal. You tell me why you want a copy of Danny's book and I'll send my extra copy to the person who writes the most compelling reason. Here are some tips for you: You … [Read more...]
Bloggers Wanted to Lead Blog Collaborations
Until now, many bloggers have focused on expanding their skills at blogging and using Social Media. What we need to do now is to put together collaborations of bloggers by niche and location. More reach = more income and more influence to build a better world. Perhaps you don't think of yourself as a leader or even an early adopter - but many reading this are. Maybe you believe there are others with more experience or talent. I have found that the brightest are often the most modest and … [Read more...]
Why Support Collaborating Local Communities
Thank you, Danny Iny (@DannyIny on Twitter), for linking to my blog so I would see your guest post on Danny Brown's excellent Social Marketing blog about Commenting Communities. (Follow @DannyBrown on Twitter.) Danny Iny offers a Marketing Training program on his Firepole Marketing Blog. I look at every incoming link and when they are of high quality - and especially when they are on a blog I read regularly - I will usually want to contribute to the discussion and share that post across … [Read more...]
Are You Missing the Conversations Because You Only Read Blogs in RSS Readers?
In a guest post on the Louis Gray blog, Rob Diana of Regular Geek (Twitter / FriendFeed) asked Are We Missing Something by Reading an RSS Feed and then answered his own question: By missing the comments, we are missing part of the conversation. It is a large part of the conversation because it is the one part of the blog post where readers can interact. Are we shortchanging ourselves by not reading the post on the blog along with the comments? Louis Gray (Twitter / FriendFeed) posted The Trouble … [Read more...]
