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SOB Business Cafe 01-12-07

January 12, 2007 by Liz

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

Success from the Nest has a question that could impact our bottom line.

Do You Know Where Your Nuts Are?

Deep Jive Interests has offers Yahoo! a plan to get their ROI from MyBlogLog.

Here’s How Yahoo! Could Capitalize on MyBlogLog

Solo Business Marketing reminds us of one thing we should be certain to find out.

Does Your Client Have the Authority to Pay?

Workboxers explains how to name a real world business opening online.

Selecting a Solid Business Domain Name

Drew’s Marketing Minute has an important ultimatum.

Love me or let me go

Logic + Emotion gives us a tour of what will soon be the newest and fastest growing habitat of the business world.

The iPhone Ecosystem

Technosailor details a series on the business of podcasting.

Podcasting Essentials: Strength in Numbers

Whimspiration has gathered a comprehensive list of non-GMO, natural, heirloom, organic, and CNG seed vendors for gardeners looking to buy products on the Internet

Winter’s Grasp

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Scribbit reminds us that not all things should be business.

Creative Family Activities: Part One

Creative Think explains the benefit of resting to change and creativity.

Pause for a Bit

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, Creative-Think, Deep-Jive-Interests, Drews-Marketing-Minute, logic-+-emotion, Scribbit, Solo-Business-Marketing, Success-from-the-Nest, Technosailor, Whimspiration, Workboxers

Michelle Mitchell Is a B.A.D. Blogger!

December 15, 2006 by Liz

Blogger A Day Call: Hello is Michelle there?

The email started like this:
Anyone who wants to talk blogging is a welcome guest. My husband enjoys the medium and we talk frequently about it but most of my off-line friends are blank stares when I mention “blogs.”
And I thought
Oh, a writer, who wants to talk, how delicious!
That was my introduction to Michelle Mitchell.

Her introduction to me was a little less. A major brain glitch had me call her an hour later than I promised. I was embarrassed and goofy. She was gracious, wonderful, and forgiving.

I told she was the third person I knew from Alaska. Michelle told me about living in Anchorage. I got a picture of a place that was much more cosmopolitan than the average city of 300,000 people. She explained that planes brought people and packages from all over the world through Anchorage. I thought location, location, location.

Michelle talked with head and heart about the benefits that being six hours from the next big city can offer, how it gives a feeling of being set apart, how it takes longer for certain influences to get there. I said I understood a bit of what she meant, that my brothers live in Wyoming. She said she and her husband had lived in North Dakota for a while. We talked about the similarities and differences. It’s one time when talking about the weather made sense to me.

When I asked how she started blogging, Michelle told me her tech-savvy husband had suggested she start one, but what had turned the tide was a high profile murder trial. She explained how they searched the defendant’s blog for evidence — that led her to explore what blogs were about. We discussed our first encounters with blogs and how some blogs take on a “me too” commenting culture.

Blogging cultures became the conversational topic. We discussed hobby blogs, business blogs, mommy blogs, writing blogs — the people who write them, and the people who read them. Michelle said that she thought that lurkers aren’t rude, that people read newspapers without writing the editor. I said that Darren had reported that only 1 or 2% of all readers comment. Imagine if everyone did.

Michelle said that, when she first started blogging, she spent hours and hours preparing a piece for her blog — she posted about once a week. She explained that she couldn’t keep blogging that way, It took too much time and people wouldn’t know when to read. As a mom and a blogger, she wanted balance, yet do it well and right. She explained how she found her way to posting daily in shorter posts.

Recently, Michelle removed her stat counter. All of the reasons are in this post already.

This morning when I fired up my computer, I got this IM from a popular blogger:
I see you’re on scribbet.
That’s Michelle’s blog.

Once again, Michelle had gotten to the conversation before me.

I’m wondering how to fix that . . . I’m thinking another call to Anchorage.

B.A.D. Blogger Quote

It’ll be curious to see what happens when the majority of people know what a blog is the way they know what a website is now.–Michelle Mitchell

Stop by Michelle’s Blog, Scribbit, and say hi!

Thanks, Michelle, you B.A.D. Blogger!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: B.A.D. Blogger, bc, Blogger-a-day-call, Michelle-Mitchell, Scribbit

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