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Carnival of Marketing 02/19-02/25

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Carnival of Marketing at Simplenomics

The Carnival features seven articles handpicked
by Mike Sigers, CEO, of Simplenomics Enterprises. Here are four articles that made the list. Go on over to see the rest.

  • The Art of Branding – by Guy Kawasaki
  • Does Your Company Truly Matter? – Spike Jones
  • An Open Letter To The New Social Marketers – Nedra Weinreich
  • Business Ideas – The Great Divider – David Daniels

Mike had so many great submissions. He’ll be linking to 8 more articles starting tomorrow. Be sure to stop back to visit these outstanding marketing posts–a wealth of insight into promoting your blog and your business–this week into next at Simplemonics.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Google Page Ranks Underway

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This Just In

Duncan has announced at the Blog Herald that the Google Page Rank is underway.

Why is page rank important
to your blog and your business?

Page rank is Google’s system for ranking pages for its search tool. Page rank determines how relevant your blog is by using linking as a vote system. Google has developed an algorithm that weighs links between blogs A to B to C to A, and also looking also at the importance of the blogs making the links. Quality blogs that are well connected to other quality blogs are considered highly relevant to Google users. Relevant, quality, important blogs receive higher page ranks. Higher page ranks can mean higher advertising payments for blogs that monetize.

Darren offers more on page rank at Problogger.

The checker given by Duncan and Darren is considered the standard and is really all you need. However, there are others. These have varying degrees of accuracy. Here is one page rank checker.
PageRank: Search Engine Optimization

These are page rank predictors not checkers.
Medpan Page Rank Predictor
IWebTool

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Thanks to Week 17 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.

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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

Success Is Seeing Opportunities to Promote Your Business

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Three Promotion Opportunities

Some of the best opportunities for promotion happen naturally. They’re part of our everyday environment, so much a part that we often look right past them. Or we see them and think, not this time I have to . . .

How many times have I have done that in the last month?

These three opportunities all offer a unique chance to showcase yourself, your blog, and your business–free advertising to a new audience.

Next Week’s Marketing Carnival Is at

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That’s right! Our own SOB, Mike Siger’s hosting the Carnival of Marketing starting Sunday, February 19. I’ve sent my submission in. Many of you wrote posts about marketing, promotion, sales in the past week. Why not submit them? It’s a great way to invite new readers to see your what your business is about.

Click Carnival of Marketing to find details of how the Carnival works. Then choose a post you’ve written recently or write a new post and email to Mike at mike@simplenomics.com. Get your submissions there before Sunday if you can.

Educational Technology and Life is Looking for a Show Person

If you’re a tech-inclined and in Orange County, this could be a great way to get some real exposure for your business. I’m betting Mark at Educational Technology would work with you to involve parents along with teachers–both are potential clients–in what you might do for him. For a few hours a month, you would be getting some great promotion for your business. Click the logo to check out the opportunity that Mark has to offer.

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Writers Blog Alliance Needs Fiction Stories and an Editor

If you’re a writer with a fiction short story, here’s your chance to be part of a spectacular anthology. Some of the best writers on the Internet are already included. Take a trip over to the Writers Blog Alliance to see what it’s about. Also visit the original post on Successful-Blog. For more information on how to submit email Liz at email lizsun2@gmail.com.

All of these represent one more way to get your name, your blog, your business connected in new ways to new communities. Isn’t that what promotion is?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

SOB Business Cafe 02-17-2006

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SB Cafe

Welcome to the SOB Business 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 logo to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

This week Darren Rowse featured this guest post by blog designer, Peter Flaschner, in his series Blogging for Beginners. Don’t let the title fool you. It’s a classic post on blog design that everyone should read.

In this post from Freshblog, Greg explains how to check your blog against your user stats to make sure you’re meeting your baseline user’s needs and not losing readers by overstressing their systems or their patience.

Blockhacks and the Reader Experience

Hock offers some straight advice on using Google to target a market.

Market Research Using Google

Related ala carte selections include

SOB Business Cafe 02-10-2006
SOB Business Cafe 02-02-2006
SOB Business Cafe 01-27-2006

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