SOB Business Cafe 03-23-07

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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

Strategic Name Development talks about branding your band.

Brand Naming: Characteristics of a Band Name

Logic + Emotion has Armano v. von Oech.

Analog-Digital Foreign Exchange Program

Wendy Piersall at Problogger has a way to gain leverage from an A-Lister.

How to Leverage the Traffic of an A-List Blog

Ask Dr. Kirk gives some pointers on how to present information during a presentation.

Communicate With Body Language While Teaching

Blogging Pro’s new design is available.

Blogging Proâ€™s Theme Released

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The Instigator Blog has decided to take on Copyblogger at writing the most contagious headline ever!

You Donâ€™t Have To Play With Yourself Anymore

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 03-16-07

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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

Life Beyond Code takes a logical approach to ROI on our tools.

The real cost of your computer - it’s not the price you paid

Changemaker: Change Your Life has some relief.

63 Ways to Relieve Stress

Genuine Curiosity challenges us to look at leadership.

Management by marching around

Fishcreek House has advice for the weekend. Is it literal or a metaphor? It works both ways.

Pumped for the Weekend

The KISS Business too offers an analysis and would like our opinion.

What, why and how are we blogging about?

Problogger has a star-studded line up of folks to help out while Darren is in the USA.

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QAQNA has something to celebrate!

QAQnA Celebrates One Year of Blogging!

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 02-23-07

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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

Don’t take out your tools to answer the question posed by Creating Passionate Users.

Are our tools making us dumber?

Seth’s Blog states the two things most folks get from blogging.

If no one reads your post, does it exist?

Marketing Profs ask about whether we’re paying attention to our readers.

What If We Practiced a Little Customer Engine Optimization

Copyblogger suggests a Roman statesman as your next blog consultant.

Let Cicero Build You a Sticky Blog

9:o1am diggs up another kind of trademark story.

Digg to lose name to Lucasfilm?

Problogger offers the fine points to blog conversation.

How to Add to Blogging Conversationsâ€¦ And Eliminate the Echo Chamber

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Word Sell has age old advice about Search Engine Marketing.

Search Engine Marketing–Size Doesn’t Matter

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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Performancing Is Now with SplashPress Media!

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SplashPress Media Buys Performancing

Today it’s been announced that SplashPress Media has acquired Performancing.

You’ll find the official story on the front page of the Blog Herald, one of the independent flagship properties owned by SplashPress Media. The Blog Herald — run by Editor (and S.O.B.) Tony Hung — reports that

According to David Krug, â€œOver the last year Performancing has built up a large and loyal community of bloggers from all walks of life. They have created and provided tools and quality resources to bloggers and blogging communities.We wish to continue providing the blogosphere with affordable tools to help people join the new media revolution . . . We look forward to carrying that vision forward and farther.â€

Performancing will also be run independently of other SplashPress Media properties. David Krug of 9:o1am will be General Manager of Performancing moving forward.

An exclusive podcast interview with David Krug is available at Technosailor.

Darren Rowse has more coverage on the sale at Problogger.net.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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SOB Business Cafe 05-05-2006

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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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Darren Rowse is blogging 24 hours straight to answer reader questions. It’s a problogger blogathon.

When is Google not Google? The Strategic Name Development Blog has the answer and the analysis on whether it’s a good idea.

Google to Gu Ge Article from Strategic Name Development Blog

Ed at Technology Evangelist offers a how-to on sending pictures to relatives.

How to Send Baby Pictures by Technology Evangelist

Financial Reflections gives us four solid reasons to care about personal finance.

Financial Reflections on Personal Finance

Shirley George Frazier at Solo Business Marketing continues the conversation on how newsletters keep us close to customers.

Related ala carte selections include

We all have a long way to go to give as much link love as Bora Zivkovic of Science and Politics does for science blogs in this post — which is only one of ~~four~~ 12 soon to be 13 parts.