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Thanks to Week 105 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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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 SOB button’s validity, send him or her to me. Thie award carries a “Liz said so” guarantee, is endorsed by Kings of the Hemispheres, Martin and Michael, and is 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– A-Z Directory . Click the link or visit the What IS an SOB?! page in the sidebar.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Jason Alba, Matthew Reinbold, Kelly Anderson, Wendy Piersall, Tim Stay, and B4B Conference

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The fabulous Blogging for Business Conference in Salt Lake City last week was like the living web in the real world in real time. Turn the comment box into a conference room and the same exchange of information and relationships was happening with the same dynamic engagement.

Kudos to Jason Alba and Matthew Reinbold for a conference that provided a schedule of top-notch speakers from the morning keynote by Wendy Piersall through the afternoon keynote by Gary Goldhammer to the last session by Tim Stay — all were exceptional opportunities to interact and learn. Lindsey Pollack, who spoke on GenY, explained my son to me . . . now I am wise. The attendees were equally as stellar. I got to meet Hal Halladay, Jordan McCollum and Kelly Anderson. Kelly showed Wendy and I around SLC. What royal company she is!

AND I MET LINDSEY POLLAK!!! She has a smile and brain that don’t quit!!

All in all, that Blogging for Business conference showed Utah and all of us what a conference should be like. [Yes, Jason, the title of this post is an effort to hijack your names. grin]

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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.

Related ala carte selections include

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

Party Comments 1-210: 56 Links from Successful and Outstanding Bloggers

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From 7a.m. to 11p.m., October 24, 2007, Successful-Blog celebrated the value of the successful and outstanding bloggers who land on these pages. The conversation was all over the map both topically and geographically. The food choices were mostly sweet and creative, as only virtual food can be. Personally, I like the poptart ice cream sandwiches. Fireworks at the end brought the evening to a close somewhere about when the 660th comment was being typed in. And a landmark was passed at comment 378. . . .

Check out the Party Favors

HART captured the entire list of links for the guest posts leading up to the party.

These Links Were Shared in Just the First 210 Comments!!

Some great stuff, don’t you think? As Mike said, “Most prodigious!”

I’m one lucky blogger to know these people!
–ME “Liz” Strauss

Related
The Mic Is On: Happy 2nd Birthday to SOBs Everywhere!

Teaching Sells . . . Perfect Timing

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If your blog or your business in any way depends on Google traffic, then you couldn’t have missed what happened yesterday.

A discussion of the page rank drop and a list of affected blogs was offered by Daniel at Daily Blogging Tips:

Here is a list that I gathered with big blogs that supposedly lost PR . . .

In a second list, Daniel goes on to mention several mainstream media sites also hit, including the Washington Post, Forbes, and the Chicago Sun-Times.

Kind of makes us all stop to wonder how Google dependent we are.

Teaching Sells Opens the Doors

On the same day, Teaching Sells opened its doors.

You might remember me mentioning a free report about Teaching Sells, a study done and now, a full curriculum for online business offered by Brian Clark and Tony D. Clark.

Here’s what Brian says:

The Teaching Sells training program is a comprehensive and detailed step-by-step guide to creating successful multimedia membership sites. It’s a complete methodology for choosing profitable topics, developing dazzling content, attracting paid members and building air-tight websites.

Charter members will get a 12-week , plus forum access to instructors. Here are the course titles:

  • How to Create Content That Sells
  • How to Effectively Market Interactive Learning Environments
  • How to Create Killer Multimedia Content with Quick and Easy Tools
  • Seven Profitable Business Models for Interactive Content Developers
  • Your Blueprint for Building Membership Sites with Open Source and Low-Cost

    • Software

Check out the courses in detail and enroll here.

I’m a part of this venture and proud to be, particularly because of the high-value offer that’s in effect until October 31.

Google seems to have done Brian and Tony a favor. Check out how this program can do your business an even bigger one.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!