Liz Strauss at Successful Blog

Thinking, writing, business ideas … You’re only a stranger once.

POPULAR POSTS

Possibly the Most Popular Post Ever
The Top Ten Ways to Start Living Your Life

My EBook Launch: Get the Insider’s Guide and Get Your Voice in the Conversation

Problems and Issues
Put Your 2 Cents In What’s Technorati Worth Without Janice?

Branding
Brand YOU–You Are What They See
Your Resume-The Brand YOU Brochure
Brand YOU–When An Apology Is in Order
5 Sure-Fire Ways to Break the Promise of Your Brand
Email Subscriptions Got My Mother-in-law & 2 Nuns to Read My Blog
6 Steps to a Branded Business Blog in Record Time
7 Steps to Being Recognized as an Expert

Business and Analysis
Blogs Aren’t Mini-Websites. They’re Powerful Tools.
Chicago Goes Wi-Fi . . . What Does that Mean to Business?
Who’s a Citizen Journalist?
A Tale, Sister Marlene, Stephen Covey, Mike Sigers, & Power Linking
Creative Wonder 101 as Promotion and Problem Solving
Saving the Net–Doc Searls & Walter Cronkite

Checklists and Planning Tools
Blog Review Checklist
Checklist for Linking to Quality Blogs
Images & Sound-Bytes of a Brand YOU Leader
Perfect for Friday Productivity Checklist
Friday Productivity: The Monkey Rule

Content
Editing for Quality and a Content Editor’s Checklist
What Is Content that Keeps Readers?

Design
Five Design Basics to Never Forget
GAWKER Design: Curb Appeal as Customer-Centered Promotion
5 Type Turn-Offs that Are Exit Only
Great Finds: Over 875 Free WordPress Themes
Great Find: Free Blogspot Templates

Ideas
Don’t Hunt IDEAS — Be an Idea Magnet
Eye-Deas 1: Have You Started Seeing Things?

Links
Blog Basics 2: How to Code Links
Think Before You Link
How to Code Accessible Links–Part 1

Promotion
Blog Promotion Basics [for Everyone]
Why Pete Townshend Doesn’t Need Promotion
The “Got Milk?‿ Man, Chartreuse, & Liz Singing in Harmony
7 Steps to Being Recognized as an Expert

Reader Support
Turning Reluctant Readers into Loyal Fans

SEO
SEO The Secret Life of Search Engines
Check Google Backlinks Through Yahoo
SEO–Link Checking Tools
Technorati’s Family of Support Pages
Great Find: 2 Standalone Trackback Tools

Thinking
The 10 Skills Most Critical to Your Future
Critical Skill 2: Mental Flexibility Test
Have Failure of the Imagination
A Silly Left Right Brain Test

Finding Ideas Outside the Box
Critical Skills 1: Strategic Deep Thinking
Critical Skill 2: Mental Flexibility
Critical Skill 2: Mental Flexibility Test

7 Steps & the Key to Spotting Trends
Find My . . . um . . . Passion — What?!!
Trendspotting: How to Crawl into People’s Heads

Writing
Introducing Power Writing for Everyone–the Series
Writing–Ugh! 10 Reasons to Get Jazzed about Writing
9 + 1 Things Every Reader Wants from a Writer
9 + 1 — The Sequel — When Big Words Go Bad
9 + 1 Things Every Reader Wants from a Writer
9 + 1 — The Sequel — When Big Words Go Bad

Writer’s Block
How To Beat Writer’s Block
Why Dave Barry and Liz Don’t Get Writer’s Block

and for fun and motivation:
The Top 10 Ways to Start Living Your Life
7 Reasons and Ways to Leave the Center of the Universe to Come Back to Us Again
Top 10 Ways to Become a Miserable Blogger
A Message for Everyone
Fun Find: Button Generator.com
Web 2.0 What IS It?
300 Naked Women Feared Lost [Branding The Onion]

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