blogging

I’m knee-deep in launching a new blog. This will be my tenth (non-personal) blog launch/re-launch in six years. Each time I do it, I seem to forget (and re-learn) the pain that’s involved. Getting a blog off the ground is far from easy, and keeping it alive is even harder. Of the 10, five are [...]

Fortune Magazine annually tracks America’s largest corporations due to their influence in the business world. For this study, Academics from Center For Marketing Research Dartmouth examined the social media activity, specifically blogging, of various organizations, concluding that the biggest companies have slowed down their social media efforts and appear to be hitting a plateau. More after the jump.

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Is a picture in your blog post worth some ROI?

I’m knee-deep in launching a new blog. This will be my tenth (non-personal) blog launch/re-launch in six years. Each time I do it, I seem to forget (and re-learn) the pain that’s involved. Getting a blog off the ground is far from easy, and keeping it alive is even harder. Of the 10, five are [...]

Not too long ago everyone was pretty excited about the debut of Google Music: then we got Music Beta by Google and, while it wasn’t terrible, it also wasn’t much of a pay-off for years of patience. If you’re not paying much attention to the service’s continued evolution it seems you’re not alone. So, to [...]

A new infographic from KISSmetrics reveals not only the pros and cons of posting during both high and low activity hours, but also pinpoints the best time to post to your blog.

Over the past week or so a number of Internet marketers, including Problogger and Hubze, reported that their YouTube accounts were suspended without warning. The takedowns have got many people asking themselves whether this signifies that YouTube is cracking down on Internet marketers.

Earlier today a Tweet caught my attention, asking the question “Does your blog sound more male or female?” The tweet directed followers to the Gender Genie, a cool project that claims to tell you whether you are male and female when you feed it something you’ve written.

When I was in high school a friend of mine introduced me to one block of our city — the extremely little Little Vietnam — that redefined how we spent our lunchtime. While everyone else was off huffing McDonalds we were sampling what was, in that time and place, a little known cuisine. As time [...]

If you think it’s all about traffic, you’re wrong. If you think it’s all about targeted traffic, you’re wrong. Read this post to find out what REALLY matters.

The newest meme on the scene takes the natural creepiness of Steve Buscemi and pairs it with hot females. Every red-blooded male’s dream.