Archive for: June, 2009
Written on June 30th, 2009 at 07:06 am by Darren Rowse
How to Manage a School/Blog Balance
This post was written by Aditya Mahesh, founder of AMBeat.com, a complete resource for entrepreneurs complete with advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more.
Common wisdom suggests that academics are always chief in importance. Students, at least those here in the United States, are told time and time again that extra-curricular activities, whether it [...]
Written on June 29th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
Better Questions Than “Do I Need a Mentor?” and “How do I get one?”
A Guest post by Josh Hanagarne – World’s Strongest Librarian
In my Problogger post about how to land big interviews when your blog is small, I mentioned that I had a mentor. A lot of commenters asked me about that process and if I could write more about it. Send your thanks to Darren if you [...]
Written on June 28th, 2009 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse
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A few mont Ninja Affiliate Plugin for WordPress. The promotion was so popular and I’ve had so much positive feedback from readers about the plugin that I asked MaxBlogPress [...]
Written on June 28th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
Perseverance Will Save Your Blog
Robby G is a blogger from ShiteILike.com and explains the benefits of pushing your blog through good and through bad.
I was doing some research recently, wondering if my blog would ever take off and what it really depended on. I was a little bit discouraged about writing lots of content for two months on my [...]
Written on June 27th, 2009 at 04:06 am by Lara Kulpa
Amazon Ends Affiliates Program for North Carolina
[Breaking news from Lara - Pardon the interruption!]
Just read over at FOX Business that Amazon has decided to close out their affiliates program to residents of North Carolina (USA) due to a proposed change in sales tax for affiliate sales.
“In an email, Amazon reportedly told marketing affiliates in the state that the move was a [...]
Written on June 27th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
Watch How I Spend My First 20 Minutes Online Every Morning
This morning I tweeted this question – ‘what are the first 3 things you do when you get online in the morning?‘
You can see many of the answers to the question on this twitoaster thread.
A number of people asked me to answer the question for myself – so I thought I’d do so as a [...]
Written on June 26th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
6 Steps to Get Your Company to Pay You to Blog
Today Alexandra Levit shares some tips for getting your company/employee to pay you to blog.
I recently read that for every person who starts tweeting, another blog dies. But here’s the thing. Back in 2004, blogs were dismissed as a fad, and today there are billions of them. Blogging is not going away anytime soon.
You might [...]
Written on June 25th, 2009 at 12:06 am by Darren Rowse
Want to See My Two New Blogging Projects?
Over the last 24 hours I’ve launched two new projects – both are blogging related.
I’m not sure why they’ve both come at once – I wasn’t planning on doing either at all even 36 hours ago – but sometimes ideas hit me in groups. Here they are – I hope one or both interest you:
1. [...]
Written on June 24th, 2009 at 06:06 am by Darren Rowse
Aweber Introduces More Sophisticated Timing Options to Autoresponder Messages
One of the tools that has become central in my own blogging is Aweber. I won’t rehash all of the reasons that I use Aweber but essentially it’s a tool that enables you to allow readers of your blog subscribe to it via email. I use it mainly as a tool to deliver weekly newsletters [...]
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