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SOB Business Cafe 05-19-2006

Filed Under Business Life, Comments, SOB Business, Successful Blog | 2 Comments

SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Cafe

We offer the best in thinking–articles on the business of blogging written by the Successful and Outstanding Bloggers of Successful Blog. Click on the title shots to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

While Robert awaits a cool and blessed event, he sends us The (Top) Ten (Blogging) Commandments.

Accidental Taorist The Top Ten Commandents

Sabine, an orginal SOB and a real business pro, reviews the process for creating quality links to build our blogs’ standing in the community.

CT BIZ Blogs How to create useful Links

Tom at Attract More Customers makes it official. We can stop multi-tasking for our own well being and to our blogs’ improvement.

Attract More Customers Unmasked the Myth of Multitasking

Chris at Performancing shows us that there is more than one way to skin a launch a blog.

Performanciing Launcing a Blog

Related ala carte selections include

Mike at Converstations suggests why we should link with readers and other bloggers by creating our own blogging carnivals.

Converstations Create Your Own Carnival

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and drinks will be right over. Stay as long as you like.
No tips required. Comments appreciated.

Have a great weekend!

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: 20 Rules of Smart & Successful Web Development

Filed Under Basics, Design, Great Finds, Successful Blog | 2 Comments

Sometimes you find a golden nugget . . .

Great Find: 20 Rules of Smart and Successful Web Development by Vitaly Friedman
Type of article: Online business basics and web development
Permalink: http://www.alvit.de/blog/article/20-rules-of-smart-and-successful-web-development-and-web-design
Target Audience: Any person who wants to do business on the Internet and every web developer or person who hires one

Content: Vitaly Friedman is a web developer who can write. He’s also a deep thinker who learns from what he does. I read this article not once. but twice–both times wishing I could say I wrote it, thinking he said what I’ve always wanted to say. From Respect your visitors. and Care about your content. to Learn to handle the Creative Block. and Be aware of the Power of the Web.I felt I was listening to a kindred spirit talking– one who said it so much better than I might have said it.

So I’ll leave you to him. Click the screenshot for the best article I’ve read on the subject in a very long time–maybe ever.

So Rules of Successful Web Development

It’s always nice to find a new hero.

–Me “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: 13 Blogging Mistakes to Avoid

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It seems that great minds are beating my mind to places I keep planning to go. I had thoughts on doing a post on parts that seem to be missing from blogs that I visit. Just as I’m getting ready to write that reminder post, SOB John P. Thomas sent me a link to this post he wrote.

Great Find: Common Weblogging Mistakes by John P. Thomas
Type of article: Blogging basics–mistakes and missed opportunities
Permalink: http://www.johntp.com/2006/03/19/common-weblogging-mistakes/
Target Audience: Bloggers setting up their first blog

Content: John uses 13 bullet points to list the most common mistakes folks make in setting up their first blog. He discusses two types of problems–leaving out important parts of a reader-friendly blog and basic practices that work to the blog owner’s advantage, things that first-time bloggers might not know. His writing is crisp, clear, and easy to follow. I recommend John’s post for any new blogger. To check it out, click this screenshot.

Common Webloggin Mistakes Screenshot

Thanks, John, for sharing your work with us.
–Me “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: Blog Promotions Using Stats

Filed Under Great Finds, Marketing, Successful Blog, Tech/Stats | 4 Comments

Your stats and mine have been on my mind lately. It could be because I’ve been spending a little extra time there to see who’s been stopping by from what media source. I was planning to write a post about ways to use stats for blog promotion, but just as I was about to I came across this one.

Great Find: Blog Promotion: What Do Your Stats Tell You? at Random Bytes
Type of article: Blogging basics–a look a stats
Permalink:http://weblensblogs.blogspot.com/2006/03/blog-promotion-what-do-your-stats-tell.html
Target Audience: Anyone who’s interested in the reader response to a new blog started from an existing web site.

Content: Pam Blackstone, professional journalist and speaker, started Random Bytes to expand the interest in her Internet search site Weblens. In this well-written, quick read, she compares the audience of the blog to that of the search site and wonders at the differences, some that new bloggers might not pay attention to–browsers, screen resolution, and operating systems. Pam uses the data to extrapolate profile information about her readers. If you want to see what conclusions she reaches, click the screenshot below.

Random Bytes What Do Your Stats Tell You?

Thanks, Pam, for a reminder of the wealth of information in those stats.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Great Find: How to Create an RSS Feed

Filed Under Great Finds, Successful Blog, Survival Kit, Tech/Stats, Tools | 3 Comments

I didn’t find this Mark Wade at the R Web Designs blog did, and he has a fine write up on it. Click Mark’s logo R Web Designs logo to read his analysis and to see his fabulous blog.

Great Find: The Robin Good’s How to Create a RSS Feed from Any Web Page
Type of article: Blogging basics how-to article
Permalink:http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/03/09/how_to_create_a_rss.htm

Target Audience:All web users who want to know more about RSS feeds
Content: Robin Good points out that at some moment in the future you might want to follow the updating of a web page that doesn’t have an RSS feed.He answers the question, Can you create one? with a resounding YES!. Click Robin’s logo to access the article.

Robin Good Logo

Thank you, Mark for finding this page. Thank you, Robin for writing it.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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