With the rise of blogging, fame and opportunity is just around the corner. For this reason everyone (writers, designers, coders, businesses) seem to have a blog running on the web taunting what they have to offer. Some offer valuable advice while others simply make use of a blog to promote their services. Whatever it is that you are trying to do with your blog, making your blog viral is a sure fire way to be recognized and gain success.
Viral Blogging unlike traditional viruses we avoid actually helps you get the word out. If you can make your blog go viral, marketing isn’t even something that you will have to work for. With viral blogging, the promotional aspect of maintaining a blog is taken care of by itself. However, creating a blog that spreads like a virus is no easy work. As anything else this requires time and patience but once achieved this virus will help you climb the success ladder in no time. Let’s analyze some ways we can tap into viral blogging.
Brand. For some this 5 letter word might be of least importance but when it comes to business, without an effective brand name success is hard to come by. Brand name and brand images are created in many ways. Some make use of images, some slogans and some simply the name of the businesses. Brand name is what sets businesses apart from their competitors. For example Wal Mart has successfully created a brand “Always Low Prices“ which is what customers mostly recognize Wal Mart with – Low Prices.
Although branding is one of the most important aspect when it comes to business, most businesses seem to let go off this important element with time. As the business grows, individuals and companies rely and start focusing on so many different things that they eventually let the brand name of the company erode. In this post we will talk about some signs of brand erosion. Some of these might not seem to directly relate to brand erosion but still is an important element when it comes to brand building and brand sustainability.
Back in the good old days, it was enough to produce an idea, stick “.com” after the company name, and wait for venture capitalists to throw suitcases full of money at you.
“Twitter is about chit-Chat, and its discussions are by definition fleeting. By contrast, a good comment in a good blog will be likely not only to stand the test of time, it will potentially draw more exposure. Twitter is a micro-blogging service, so it follows naturally that it’s prone to micro-comments; it could be reasoned that twitter is the fast food of the blogging world - if you’re up for a nutricious thought-provoking discussion, you’re better off indulging a reputable blog than a reputable twitter.” - Pedro Cardoso
Twitter here, Twitter there, Twitter Everywhere! This statement isn’t an exaggeration, it’s a fact. If you have become a “twitteroholic” like me, you will find yourself tweeting on the go using your mobile phone or find yourself constantly tweeting while you are working on your computer like I am at the moment. If you have been using twitter for a while I am sure you know what exactly I am talking about. Twitter is addicting!
Search for a high school, and it’s likely that you’ll find plenty that offer special emphases on art, theater, craft or sciences. Look for one that promises to wake your child’s inner entrepreneur though, and you could be looking for a long time.
Social Media sites have been rising in popularity day after day. The underlying reason behind this popularity and increased user base is simply the power of networking and self promotion. If you have been in the social media scene for a while, you must have noticed the decline both in terms of quality and networking possibilities.
Media always seems to drive everything around us and the same is true with social media sites when it comes to the web world. As in real world media, the social media sites rarely send quality our way and most of the time we are just bombarded with nonsense that we don’t really want to know about or hear of. Anyways, in this post let’s analyze social media – the past and the present, why it has changed and who is gaming who in this cycle?
Photography: Dalboz17
It’s a really neat trick. Tell someone that you’re your own boss, that you usually work from home but that your office is a regular table at Starbucks, and you can watch them turn a shade of puce slightly lighter than your morning green tea frappuccino.
There are two kinds of entrepreneurs. There are the people who set up stamp-trading schemes in school, who drop out of university when they realize student digs don’t have garage incubators and who just know they’ll be millionaires long before the last of the teenage acne has disappeared.
Entrepreneurs like these are never employees. They’re always their own boss and always learning as they go.
Photography: Dayna Bateman
Working in cafes might be as trendy as typing on a Macbook Air but it does come with one distinct disadvantage. You can’t do it for long. As we described in our rules for café-working, more than two hours on single brew makes you look cheap while pouring down latte after latte to keep your seat warm won’t just be pricy, it will also mean frequent toilet trips while your laptop sits on the table making eyes at strangers.
For any entrepreneur there’s only one thing worse than a blank page. Yes, it’s even worse than a blank bank account (that can always be fixed).
Nothing is more frightening than a blank mind.
For iPhone owners who aren’t paid-up members of the Church of GTD, life can be hard. Browse through the productivity apps on Apple’s website, and it seems that every other offering is based on David Allen’s system.
It’s almost as though it’s not enough to have a mind like a filing cabinet to get the most out of GTD. You also need a pocketful of whiz-bang gadgetry and all the electronic gizmos you can think of to keep your lists in order.
If you have been blogging for a while, I am sure you have experienced the blogger’s block. There are times when we sit in front of the computer with a rock solid idea but find it hard for the words to flow. The stress and the need to update your blog with yet another valuable post starts taking it’s toll on you. This post contains some insight from some of the most popular and influential bloggers on the web. They write posts that are valuable and offer great deal of value to the readers, time after time.
During this interview we asked the bloggers just one question: How can bloggers be productive in their blogging? I am certain that if we follow the strategy they follow, we won’t have to deal with the blogging stress or the bloggers block
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It’s not likely to be a question you’ve ever asked yourself. Unless you were thinking of taking on AT&T and had a few spare billion bucks lying around to buy up the licenses, then whether you should start your own mobile network was probably not very high on your agenda.
It seems like list posts are all the rage on the web lately. Although providing lists have become one of the most popular way to convey a message through a post, there are problems that are often ignored by most bloggers. The saying “There is a good and a bad side to everything” holds true in regards to these kind of posts as well. Posts that are numbered or have the central idea as a list have been one of the most tried out methods to gain social media traffic and back links, and it has without doubt seen huge success. So how exactly writing a post in a way that brings in traffic and back links can hurt over time? That’s exactly what we will discuss in this post.
Before we get to the details why list post sometimes can pose a threat rather than support, I would like quote Darren Rowse from Problogger, Read the rest…
Photography: Margolove
Time-sucks come in all shapes and sizes. Google Earth, for example, is a planet-sized time-suck that could draw in hours if you were to allow it to — and especially if your Internet connection is running a little slow.
Photography: Diego A. Marino
For Proust, it was famously the taste of a Madeleine dipped in limeflower tea that sent him spinning into an involuntary memory. He needn’t have worked so hard. Just sniffing the biscuit would have been enough to spark those associations and make him indifferent “to the vicissitudes of life… its disaster innocuous, its brevity illusory.”
Photography: Leo Reynolds
No two businesses are ever completely alike but all entrepreneurs have at least one thing in common: they all have to decide on the amount to charge their customers. That’s never easy. Pitch too high and you’ll struggle to pick up customers. Pitch too low and while you’ll pick up lots of business, you’ll struggle to make it pay.
It took David Allen about 250 pages to explain his Getting Things Done productivity system. You’ll have to read each page at least twice to understand it, spend several hours wondering how to make it work and fiddle around with 43 folders before realizing you don’t need a book to teach you how to procrastinate.
