Comments on: Secrets of eMoms Blogging Success

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wow power leveling — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 06:57:20 +0000

Barbara, that was a very thoughtful way to correct someone… which is a tough thing to do in any situation. As nice a guy as Darren is, I’m sure he appreciated your approach.

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One of the few guys actually making money from this blogging thing had a bad feeling about the new GooglePages AdSense. I can’t say as I’m in the same camp, considering how ridiculously difficult it is to even get GooglePages to work….

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Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:08:05 +0000

[...] Send it persistently to an A-List blogger until he posts it [...]

By: Teresa

Teresa — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:46:04 +0000

Great! I can use this for my own blogging. Tell you the truth, if you have kids, you never run out of material to write about…even if it is a simple S.O.S. :D

By: Barbra Sundquist

Barbra Sundquist — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 08:04:52 +0000

Darren, I’d much rather have all your great posts than perfect punctuation anyday. Keep ‘em coming!
Barbra

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:55:17 +0000

My punctuation is pretty poor – sorry. I do know rules like this but my fingers tend to operate a couple of seconds faster than my brain some days! :-)

thanks Barbara

By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 19:19:36 +0000

Barbara, that was a very thoughtful way to correct someone… which is a tough thing to do in any situation. As nice a guy as Darren is, I’m sure he appreciated your approach.

All I want to say is that I use that exact same process to this day to make sure I don’t mess up on apostrophes. It’s a great rule of thumb that’s worth its weight in gold. :)

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Blogger — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:52:38 +0000

If secret why we want to know

By: Vanessa Pruitt

Vanessa Pruitt — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:43:24 +0000

Wow, I really feel self concious about my readers now! Sometimes my punctuation is on the immature side, too. It’s ok Darren, we still like ya. I guess with a higher reader base you must get called on things like that all the time.

Wendy’s tips are great. It’s really true that you will go nowhere in life if you are not passionate about what you do (either that or you will get no pleasure out of it). And, what’s life with no pleasure?

By: Barbra Sundquist

Barbra Sundquist — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 08:34:38 +0000

Darren, I like your blog a lot and read it regularly. There is one thing that I find distracting about it though – you tend to write “it’s” when you mean “its” If you’re interested in correcting this, here’s my handy dandy tip for knowing when to use the apostrophe: “it’s” is a contraction for “it is”, so try saying your sentence with “it is” in it. If it sounds goofy, then you know to leave out the apostrophe.

For example, in the post above try reading it as “so I thought I’d highlight it in a post of IT IS own as IT IS worth a read” and it becomes clear that the first should be “its” and the second is fine as “it’s”.

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:53:18 +0000

Thanks for the link and the list! I need to get my wife reading that.

By: Wendy Piersall

Wendy Piersall — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:01:55 +0000

Darren! You rock! This was worth missing out on the Dell PC :).

And here’s the super-ironic twist to this post. Want to know how I found out about it? From a rogue blog who is plagiarizing your content. How timely indeed from your post yesterday on Stealing Other People’s Content.

I guess, to look at the bright side of things, it’s a problem I hope to share with you soon. :)