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SOB Business Cafe 06-01-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Seth’s Blog recommends that we choose a game plan to suit the game we’re playing.

One, a few, most or all

Problogger discusses donations as an income stream.

Donations on Blogs - Do They Work?

Vaspers the Grate reviews the newest specialized search engine.

Mahalo search engine from Jason Calacanis

Alister Cameron, Blogologist shares his dreams.

Google’s new BlogRank Authority Index… in my dreams, anyway!

All Things Workplace wonders if 9-5 is archaic.

Can You Be Productive, Successful, and Satisfied 9 to 5? Part I

Good Word Editing does the math, with Einstein looking it over.

Blog Like Einstein - Finally a Formula that Predicts Blog Traffic with a 0.8 Correlation

Related ala carte selections include

Design Your Writing Life is suggesting we fess up.

“I Don’t Have Time to Write” and other Writerly Lies #2

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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SOB Business Cafe 05-04-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Lorelle on WordPress delineates the minefields of trying to market to bloggers as a class, a group, or a generic list.

Promoting Your Wares to Bloggers

thomas r. clifford has a beginner’s mind and I thank him for this blog post sharing it.

3 Reasons Why I’m Going to SOBCon07

The Blog Studio has some advice on process.

11 Tips to Ensure a Successful Web Design Process

Design Your Writing Life has a series we make need to make it a goal to read.

Goal setting: The Four Steps to Chopping Wood and Carrying Water

Passion Meets Purpose has a few re-minders.

Re-think Yourself Into a World of Possibilities

Manage To Change answers a key question. Be sure to read the comments.

What’s Relationship Blogging?

Related ala carte selections include

Black in Business explains the critical difference.

You Have To Have Brains

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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SOB Business Cafe 03-02-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Logic + Emotion shares a thoughtful discussion.

Thought Bubbles

Lorelle on WordPress offers a revue of reviews on WP plug-ins.

Random WordPress Plugins: Rotating Banners, Header Art, Images, Quotes, and Content on Your Blog

Design Your Writing Life continues the conversation about who decides we are writers.

Who says you’re a writer?

Carpe Factum worries about our childishness.

Does Your Inner Child Need a Diaper Change?

SuccessCREEations has been studying the financials.

How to Make Blogging Make Money For You

Spooky Action offers some thought-breaking statistics.

STATISTICS SHOW EATING ICE CREAM
CAUSES MURDER

Related ala carte selections include

Business Blogwire has a new initiative to improve 100 blogs.

Pass The SOAP: Improve Blogs With The Scratch One Another Program

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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Change the World: That One Person Is Better

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A Writing Contract

Change the World!

People are inspiring, teaching, and reaching each other in positive ways every day. Phil Gerbyshak is smiling, sharing, serving, asking questions, learning and hugging.

Lisa at Design Your Writing Life took a virtual page Content Done Better by Carson Brackney and another from The Write Path by Diane Penna to forge a contract with herself. Lisa’s contract, like the others, is a commitment to “doing the work you love in service to those who love what you do,” as Steve Farber says.

Of course then, Lisa left a message that it was my turn.

Lisa, this is my answer and my contract.

When I was almost 18 years old, at sunrise in the Grand Teton Mountains, a young man asked me an important question about life that I had never been asked before. Somehow I knew the answer. That answer is the basis for my writing contract with myself and the world.

I will be the kind of writer that strives to keep alive the music of the language, to hold head and heart together in the words, and to write with hope and passion that one person is better because he or she read what I wrote.

I told that boy, “I’ll never know for sure. So I’ll always be trying.”

Thank you, Lisa, for asking the question.

We can change the world — just like that.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

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If you’re ready to change the world, send me your thoughts in a guest post. Feel free to take the gorgeous Change the World image up there that Sandy designed back to your blog. Or help yourself to this one.

Change the World!

Email me about what you’re doing or what we might do. Let’s change the world one bit at a time together. Together it can’t take forever.

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