About Liz

“Relationships are everyone’s business, and every business is relationships,” explains strategist and presenter, Liz Strauss of Successful-Blog.

According to EatonWeb, “Liz Strauss is perhaps the most influential relational blogger on the Internet.” Her blog –Liz Strauss at Successful Blog — has been called both a destination and an event. Open Comment Nights, a Blog-to-Blog Conversation, a Blogger’s Cafe, single questions, and on-the-blog strategy sessions keep readers returning to conversations that often last for days. Her blog has tens of thousands of comments.

Liz understands and can translate how people perceive a blog, a product, and an experience — how the head and heart engage to make a fiercely loyal customer.

Liz Strauss has worked over 20 years in print, software, and online publishing, and strategized with publishers in Europe, Australia, the UK, and Ireland. She has worked with entrepreneurs, small businesses, companies in crisis, and corporate giants. Liz led the vision behind last year’s SOBCon07 — THE Relationship Bloggers’ Conference that gained the attention of BusinessWeek, the Chicago Sun-Times, and the Innovation Initiative of the Kellogg School of Business.

Best Of

These are signature posts Liz has contributed around the web.

Business and Strategy (head)
1.2 WHY Doing What We Love Is Solid Business Thinking
121: What’s the Key to a Promotion Strategy?
Hope Seth Doesn’t Mind if I Go Even Further

Living (heart)
Personal Identity: What Is Humility?
Change the World: One World-Sized Idea
The Top 10 Ways to Start Living Your Life

The Living Web
Social Networking: Am I a Person Or an Item?
The Two Webs: Information or Relationships?
Connectors and Mavens on the Tipping Point

Writing
9 + 1 Things Every Reader Wants from a Writer
Are You a Writer? 7 Traits that Writers Have in Common
The Problem with Writing . . . 25 Things to Know BEFORE You Write for a Living

Blogging
10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments
Love at First Write: 5 +1 Steps to Your Authentic Writing Voice

Interviews and Mentions

I’d like to thank these folks for quoting me on their blogs.
Brief Case Study: Liz Strauss appreciating readers on Successful Blog through comments and through encouragement awards
The Blogosphere’s Original S.O.B.
You Can’t Have a Community Without People: A Chat With Liz Strauss
Liz Strauss the Voice Behind the Blog
A Personal Interview with Liz Strauss
Interview with Liz from the Successful-Blog
Learn from Liz: An interview with successful blogger Liz strauss
Quought for the Day - Liz Strauss
Someone I’d Like You to Meet
Write Up Your Alley with Liz Strauss Bloggertalks, Liz Strauss, Queen of the SOBs
At TechZ Online.net
Interview… ME “Liz” Strauss At Working at Home on the Internet

Guest Writing

How a Trackback after a Comment Can Start a Relationship
A Strategy for Relationship Linking
ME “Liz” Strauss, Special Guest Writer
Some thoughts from Liz on Blogging

HAVE A QUESTION, suggestion, or just want to talk business? Email Liz Strauss at lizsun2@gmail.com.

My Initial Thoughts

I wonder if my parents knew when they gave me the initials ME that they were making a child who marched to a different drummer?

“Square peg in a round hole.” That’s what people used to call it.

Even as a kid I knew it was a silly waste of time to put a square peg in a round hole. That was just plain common sense To make the peg fit, it wouldn’t be a square peg anymore. It would hurt the peg, and the hole wouldn’t like it.

Sometimes I wonder . . . what if I had my husband’s initials–WE?

Do you suppose our son wonders about this? . . . His initials are ET.

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