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Thanks to Week 22 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

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and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

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Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 03-24-2006

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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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Liew has found a new way to check your blog’s influence in the Blogosphere.

Brian actually has two review on Microsoft Office 2007. After you read this article, you might want to click through to his home page, to catch the preview article.

Microsoft Office 2007 article by Brian Shih

Joel entertains with some Mad Science.

HART reviews IE7 Beta 2.

Sumeet offers some fine points on interview success.

Related ala carte selections include

Arloo treats us this lovely dessert. He has the details.

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

Introducing Symplebyte

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SOB Directory Entry: Simplebyte by David Canfield

Easy as Easy

There are plenty of places on the web to get detailed, highly-technical information on how to use a computer and software. What’s really hard to find is simple information for users who are not experts. David’s blog, Symplebyte.com, is designed for them. His goal is to provide easy-to-use information about computers in a format that is easy to understand.

Notes from Liz: SOB David Canfield’s blog not only lives up to its name–easy to use and understand–it’s also easy on the easy. Every post offers a simple byte of information, in the way a good newsletter on a specific topic might. You could call this the Lifehacker of computer basics–quick snippets on how to use your computer or your software to get more out of them. Though Symplebyte is written in plain language, for beginners, it’s a wealth of those bits of information that, we miss or forget as we leave our beginner status behind. Check out David’s blog, if you don’t need it, some day in the future you will know someone who will, and David is a man worth getting to know.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Has your SOB Blog Been Introduced to US?
Blog Promotion: May I Introduce You?

Blog Promotion: May I Introduce You?

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If you have one of these . . .

You are listed in the SOB Directory

I’m delighted to report that the SOB Directory is one of the MOST VISITED pages at Successful Blog. The story in the stats says that referrals come regularly to that page during the week and on the weekend. During the week, daily readers and their friends often visit both past SOB pages and the SOB Directory. I guess they’re looking for blogs they know and want to read again. On the weekend, new SOBs and their friends join the traffic to see what being an SOB is all about, I guess.

Let Me Introduce You.

In the SOB directory, you’ll see some blogs have a blog description. Do you know about this opportunity? Send me a brief two or three sentence description of your blog. Using your description, I can write an official introduction post for you blog. I’ll feature that post on the front page before I add the description to the SOB Directory.

Introducing Brightmeadow
Introducing Clear Your Mind
Introducing The Synchronicity of Indeterminacy
Introducing Cottontimer
Introducing Simplenomics

Seems like everyone must have directory description already written somewhere on their computer. Dust it off and e-mail it to me at lizsun2@gmail.com.

Let me introduce to you all of the Successful-Blog readers.

It’s Free Promotion

It’s free promotion for you, your brand, your business, and your blog. Free Promotion! How much nicer could it get?

Gee, I really am the nice one.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Thanks to Week 21 SOBs

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Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

Let me introduce the bloggers
who have earned this official badge of achievement,

and the right to call themselves
Successful Blog SOBs.

I invite them to take a badge home to display on their blogs.

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Blood and Treasure logo

The Business of America Is Business by David Starling

I Succeed by Helping You Succeed

John TP logo

LIEWCF logo

Squibble logo

STATS logo

Symplebyte logo

They take the conversation to their readers,
contribute great ideas, challenge us, make us better, and make our businesses stronger.

I thank all of our SOBs for thinking what we say is worth passing on.
Good conversation shared can only improve the blogging community.

Should anyone question this badge’s validity, send him or her directly to me. This award comes with a full “Liz said so” guarantee. It is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and backed by my brothers, Angelo and Pasquale.

deep purple strip

Want to become an SOB?

If you’re an SO-Wanna-B, you can see the whole list of SOBs and learn how to be one by visiting the SOB Hall of Fame. Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 03-17-2006

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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 screenshot to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Bloggers Blog takes on folksonomy and unravels the confusing world of tags.

The Confusing World of Tags

Shirley at Solo Business Marketing reminds us that if the Big Guys can market their loss leaders, solo business owners can too.

Ed, the Technology Evangelist, talks about how to combat blog comment spam. I’m sure he won’t mind if you also read Sumeet Jain’s article the article on nofollow to consider whether this option works for you.

Mike at Simplenomics demonstrates true outside of the box thinking by providing several objectives for sales contests that go beyond the usual incentive goal reasons.

Related ala carte selections include

Michael has tips for adding a few free links to your blog.

Sit back. Enjoy your read. Nachos and beverages–Guinness, or maybe a simple round of pints?–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 03-10-2006