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SOB Business Cafe 06-22-07

June 22, 2007 by Liz Leave a Comment

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

We don’t have to be launching a blog to take value from what Copyblogger offers here.

Blueprint for a Brilliant Blog Launch


Make It Great! has something to make next Monday a whole lot easier and more fun!

The Optimist’s Creed: Monday Morning Greatness


Shards of Consciousness organizes a detailed toolkit you don’t want to miss!! I added it to the New Blogger Page.

The Shards Blogging Toolkit


Dave Olson is asking great questions about questions again.

Your potential is only as powerful as your questions


Trevor Hampel makes something I wrote more applicable.

7 Ways to Become a Writer


No carnival can compete with the one at Working at Home on the Internet. Categoires include advice, business, and tips.

Working at Home Blog Carnival-Thirty-eighth Edition


Related ala carte selections include

Life Beyond Code asks about our marketing plans.

Do you have a chocolate fountain?


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

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, copyblogger, Dave-Olson, Make-It-Great, Shards-of-Consciousness, Trevor-Hampel, Working-at-Home-on-the-Internet

Mini-Session 12: Relationship Blogging

March 12, 2007 by Guest Author Leave a Comment

Guest Speaker: Phil Gerbyshak

  • Want more people to comment on your blog?
  • Tired of blogging in a vacuum?
  • Want to make friends with your readers?
  • Wondering how to score some great interviews for your blog?

The Relationship Geek will answer these questions and more from 7 – 8 PM.

Thank you,
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Visit Phil’s blog, Make It Great!, where he offers a daily dose of relationship blogging — one of the many things Phil that has earned him the title of Relationship Geek. –ME “Liz” Strauss
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Let’s open the Q&A . . .

I’ll go first. Phil, what do you do when something’s gone wrong, and you’re not feeling very much like the Relationship Geek we all know you are?


SOBCon 07 link

During the Virtual Conference today, you can take $100 off registration to SOBCon 07.

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Make-It-Great, Phil-Gerbyshak, relationship-blogging, Relationship-Geek

Change the World: The Power of WE

March 5, 2007 by Liz Leave a Comment

The Power of Offering

Change the World!

In a chain of events last week, an idea and a new relationship were born. That idea will continue to form new relationships as it grows. Throughout the story is what Phil Gerbyshak calls “The Power of WE.” Here is what happened.

Chris Owen from Pink Apple Connections wrote about how, if Australia were closer she could be part of SOBcon 07. Leah MacLean wrote about Chris’ post with a suggestion and a questionn about how SOBcon started. Leah’s post generated a pile of comments and a possible Australian conference in the making. It also led to a message from me.

Leah and I met Skype — a brand new relationship. I told her how the relationships at Succeesful-Blog were the seed for the SOBcon event. By the time that call was over, Leah and I were planning a new, virtual event across the dateline.

Working Solo and Successful Blog present the Virtual SOBcon preconference event on March 12.

Chris’ post and her wish to be at a conference with her “mate Phil” put so many things into motion. It started my relationship with Leah and an entirely new event. All of that happened because some folks wanted to have a conference in Chicago. It’s incredible what happens when we engage the Power of WE.

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.

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Chris-Owen, Leah-MacLean, Make-It-Great, Phil-Gerbyshak, Pink-Apple-Connections, SOBcon-07, virtual-preconference, Working-Solo

Change the World: Don’t Hesitate to Ask or Offer

February 27, 2007 by Liz Leave a Comment

The Power of Offering

Change the World!

We are all aggregators of what we bring into the world and what we experience once we get here. Some context:

I’m the only girl and the baby of the family. I have an older, older brother and a younger, older brother. They were 8 and 9 years old when I was a baby. . . . Yeah, I’m fiercely independent.

Besides that I’m second-generation American. My grandparents were all born in another country. . . . All around me, as I grew up, were messages that said, “Hard work never hurt anybody.”

I was shy and perceptive. . . . My social skills were a cross between a monkey and a Weimaraner puppy — intrusive, cute, and clumsy.

When I went to college, I was the only one who had carried my suitcase. That was the way the world worked. That world had worked pretty well for me.

That explains a lot; doesn’t it?

This morning a man I just met, Fred Zelders, reminded me of all of that with one sentence in his comment..

P.S. Don’t hesitate to ask for help.

Wow! Hit my head. What the heck had I been thinking? I love to help people. Why shouldn’t they get a turn too?

What Fred sent me when we talked minutes later was simpler and more elegant than what I had been planning.

That simple offer — one sentence — changed my world. It saved me hours and gave me something so much better. AND Fred is no longer a stranger.

One sentence.

Thank you, Fred Zelders, for offering. Thank you for your generosity.

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.

Filed Under: Motivation, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Change-the-World, Fred-Zelders, Fredscapes, Make-It-Great, Phil-Berbyshak

Meet the Relationship Geek — Phil Gerbyshak

February 8, 2007 by Liz Leave a Comment

Everyone Knows Phil

We had met at the first email and by the last, we had decided that we would be attending Phil’s speaking event in Chicago together — two weeks later. Somewhere around emails three and four he said “I’m not a stalker.” and I laughed, thinking I’m the one who usually writes that. Not bad for an email conversation that only lasted only 42 minutes.

That’s how my relationship with Phil began. I suspect it’s that way for everyone.

Read the whole feature in today’s Blog Herald by clicking the logo.

The Blog Herald

It’s about blogging and real life.
–ME “Liz” Strauss

Related articles
Liz Strauss at The Blog Herald, The Blogging Times, and Who’s One in a Million?

Filed Under: Community, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Make-It-Great, Phil-Gerbyshak, The-Blog-Herald

SOB Business Cafe 02-02-07

February 2, 2007 by Liz 12 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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Creative Think suggests we try the secret fortune tellers have been using for years.

Use A Random Idea As An Oracle


Eat 4 Today has a series on health care for individuals.

Cover Everyone: California Nurses support Single-Payer


Make It Great! shoots us five things we can learn too.

Rapid Fire Learning: 5 Things I learned in January


The Remote Control CEO shows us how integrity figures
in a picture of self-deception.

The Practice of Integrity and Self-Deception


Manage To Change makes a choice to feature an interview
with the CEO of Reed Business Information

Where are all my choices?


Beth’s Blog asks a question that we’ve all started wondering.

Should we put our social media tools away and have a conversation?


Related ala carte selections include

ipop-in takes us into a presentation of theater of the mind
and quantum physics to help us create our own reality.

Quantum quirkiness


Purple Wren uses a YouTube Classic to remind us of the
value of video.

YouTube: OK Go – Here It Goes Again


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

Filed Under: Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Beths-Blog, Creative-Think, Eat-4-Today, ipop-in, Make-It-Great, Purple-Wren, The-Remote-Control-CEO

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