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SOB Business Cafe 11-30-07

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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

Everyone take a second to click through to vote for Glenda today! Bookmark the site and keep voting. Let’s whether we can put her in first place. We’re awfully good at community. Why not this?

Design Your Writing Life explains how to get your life in gear for the new year.

chrisbrogan.com explains how social networks deliver value.

Anubis Marketing explains the value of planning how what we’re going to have to set aside for 2008 in terms of the internet.

Codswallop explains how to “working with Excel and want take your Excel skills to the next level.”

Copyblogger explains how we might need to sober up before we hit the publishing wall with a publishing accident.

The Artsy Asylum explains a “brave new world where you can socialize, theorize, benefit from others’ thinking, network, all from your bedroom wearing jammies.”

How to Save the World explains that meaning is part love and magic.

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Jonathan Fields explains how “a good chunk of your weight gain, moodiness and brain-fog may be due to your sleep habits.”

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

SOB Business Cafe 11-23-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Creative Think brings news that Various studies suggest men and women have differently structured neural networking possibly due to early exposure to sex hormones during critical prenatal and postnatal periods.

Copywriting.com brings information on how to expand our reach. These are 10 methods you can start using this same week to start building momentum and kick-start your blog’s readership immediately.

Essential Keystrokes brings news of a book that isn’t just for beginners. Lisa sent me a copy of the book to review (and I’m giving one away at Casual Keystrokes right now). All I can say, is that it doesn’t matter whether you are an experienced WordPress pro or a brand new blogger needing all the basics, this book is worth every penny.

Business of Design Online brings relief for times like these . . . So you’re sitting at your desk, trying to focus on a piece of creative work – but it’s hard to concentrate, there’s something nagging at your attention. Suddenly it pops into your mind – you’ve forgotten something urgent!

Chris Webb brings links to some of the most interesting news on the web this week. Does Kindle signal the end of traditional books?

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Problogger found this at Inside Google who picked it up at YouTube.

If you don’t know the story of the now-famous book and blog about the Fake Steve Jobs, listen in as author, Dan Lyons, reveals it. He belongs on the Comedy Channel.

42 Days Becomes 24 years

It took that guy on the couch and me 42 days to get married — 24 years ago today. How cool is that?!!

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

SOB Business Cafe 11-16-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Logic + Emotion asks “Is the business world really ready to work a little differently? Evolve business models and offerings? Offer new solutions? Or will we cling to how it’s always worked for us in the past?”

Cube Rules recalls how ” . . . a Google Alert sent me to a brand new web site and presented me with a great kernel of truth written in a way that is both inspiring — and obvious for those of us searching for the truths of career management.”

Sunny Schlenger says, “In Neale Donald Walsh’s workshop at Celebrate Your Life, he said that there are two basic questions to ask of life, and that it’s extremely important to put them in the right order.”

lifehack.org points out that “Emailing an expert — or anyone you don’t know personally — to ask for assistance or input requires some finesse, and done well it’s far from the easy way out. . . . unless you give them a compelling reason to be interested in you and your project, they have nothing to gain by helping you.”

The Lonely Marketer advises “If you’re a marketing manager wanting to jump into social media, but your superiors are hesitant to give budget for the effort, you really need to think out how to position the medium.”

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Life Coaches Blog relates that “I’ve found great things to come out of taking time off to do nothing and be nothing. My mind clears, anxiety lifts and new ideas come.”

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

SOB Business Cafe 11-09-07

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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 titles to enjoy each selection.

The Specials this Week are

Dosh Dosh wants you to know that “The other bloggers in your niche are attention assets you can exploit. Don’t treat them as competitors, even if they promote a similar affiliate program. The internet is big enough for everyone.”

Your Fellow Blogger is Not a Competitor

chrisg offers “Here below are my 5-star daily reads, exported, unedited, exactly as they are in my feed reader of choice, BlogBridge.”

Dave Olson observes “Today I had a full day off where I didn’t have to travel anywhere or go into the office or meet with anyone. WEIRD!”

Name Wire explains “Some domain name specialists argue that if you don’t choose a generic name, one that describes the nature of your business, for an Internet-based company, you are leaving money on the table.”

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phocks explains that A brand new store has just opened in New York City that sells Husbands.
When women go to choose a husband, they have to follow the instructions at the entrance:

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

SOB Business Cafe 11-02-07

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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

Chrisg says “… Social Media is a popularity contest. It’s a lot like high school really. Being nice is great, but being popular and having lots of friends is far more important.”

StartUp Princess says, “Instead of getting depressed today about how far I have to go to get organized and establish much needed systems to run my life, family, and business better, I decided to look at what systems ARE working and then see how I can tweak them up for other areas.”

Dosh Dosh says, ” By examining your intentions or goals, you can reverse-engineer your entire blog and easily determine what type of content you should create in order to have the best chances of achieving your aims.”

Smart, Wealthy, Rich says “Well, the goal was to get 1000 subscribers in the first month. Which would have been quite awesome, but it didn’t happen. Instead, it took 3 months to get 1261 RSS readers. Don’t get me wrong, I think this is pretty nice! 🙂

Sometimes you gotta aim high, and then re-adjust. That’s what I did.”

Steve Olson asks, “Some common headlines I see are about how the poor are getting poorer, the middle class is losing ground, and that there is less opportunity today than in the past. But is it true?”

the Artsy Asylum says, “Truth be told not many people can afford the time to spend hours helping us create our Second Life presences for goodwill alone – so many of us do it ourselves and go through multiple incarnations before we get it even close to what we want. It’s not a pretty process.”

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Orbit Now! says, “Here is my spin. It is perhaps NOT as sticky, but that should come as a surprise to no one.”

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

SOB Business Cafe 10-26-07

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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

The Idea Dude considers cues, rules, and the people we influence daily.

Creative Think considers an unusual anatomical “what if.”

Logic + Emotion considers a burning question.

Make It Great! considers how to improve our social skills.

All Things Workplace considers how things are changing.

Manage to Change considers another side of the story.

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Pick the Brain considers any and everything.

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