Last night at Open Comment Night, we had another great and rambling conversation. Mike Dunn of Nomadic Audio stopped by to see what was going on. He live blogged the Open Comments Night. Click the title to see what he said.
Many thoughts were shared between blogger friends. New blogger friendships formed. Art was defined. Plans were made. Marketing ideas were discussed. Stories were told. A good time was had.
Here are some highlights. [Read more…]
Wonder what Successful and Outstanding Bloggers talk about? We talk about business, branding, writing, thinking outside of the box, and how customers think. We also talk about our blogs–a lot.
The 10 Point Plan to Build an Internal Community of Brand Loyal Fans
7 Reasons Why Investing in an Internal Community Makes Solid Business Sense
5 Reasons You Absolutely MUST Share Your Vision Early and Often
7 Steps to a Vision that Grabs a Community by Its Soul
3 Ways Leaders Demonstrate Commitment and Intentionally Build Community
How Will You Find Out Whether Your Community Is Bored, Broken, or Inspired to Take on the World?
How Do You Recognize and Attract Heroes and Champions for Your Brand?
Will Your Customers Define Your Brand or Will You?
Create a Powerful Core Community by Building a Brand Values Baseline
How to Attract the Leaders in the Pack
What Three Values Drive Your Brand?
How to Bring a 2nd Generation of Evangelists into Building a Brand Values Baseline
Values Questions to Make Decisions that Build Your Unique Brand
How to Make Quality the Signal above the Time and Money Noise
What Is the Most Critical Signal When a FAIL Noise Is Sounding?
Influence: How to Persuade Anyone In Business to Do What You Want
7 Steps Get the Best Leadership Thinking from Your Team
Change As Influence: How to Get the Attention of Deniers, Followers, Dreamers, and Leaders?
How to Get Bean Counters and Kumbayers Serving Both the Company and the Customers/a>
5 Critical Questions for Your High Performing Team of Volunteers or Employees
How to Turn Lurkers and Listeners into Advocates
Be Irresistible: Want to Own Your Space? Own Up to Your Highest Standards!
80-20 Rule of Customers: Stop Thinking 20th Century! Attract Only the Top 20%
Get Your Leadership ON: Before You Get Folks on the Bus
Tailoring Twitter: Does Your Twitter Profile Attract the Right People?
Tailoring Twitter: Building a Powerful Network that Fits You Perfectly
Tailoring Twitter: Get Busy Folks to Get Twitter in 2 Minutes Flat!
Tailoring Twitter: The ROI of Curating Content on Twitter
How I build a business and why I do what I do.
1.1 No Mission Statement: One Simple Question
1.2 WHY Doing What We Love Is Solid Business Thinking
1.3: If You Don’t Know What You Love Doing . . .
2.1: The Ideal Customer Test
Week 1: Connecting with the Offline Customer: A Non-Blogger’s Perspective
Week 2: Targeting the Offline Customer: Do You Blog for Non-Bloggers?
Week 3: Reaching the Offline Customer: Do You Promote Your Blog Offline?
Week 4: Attracting the Offline Customer: Why Do You Promote Your Blog Offline?
Week 5: Top 10 Social Media Tips for Connecting With Non-Blogging Customers
Week 6: Welcoming the Offline Customer: Does Your Blog Create A Good Impression?
Week 7: Engaging the Offline Customer: Do You Talk With Non-Bloggers?
Week 8: Offline Customers: Do You Meet The Needs of Non-Bloggers?
Week 9: Offline Customers: Do You Make Room for Non-Blogger’s to Comment?
Branding: 5 Ways to Help You Find Out Who You Are
Questions to Get Closer to Your Brand: Question 1
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 2
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 3
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 4
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 5
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 6
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 7
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 8
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 9
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 10
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 11
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 12
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 13
It’s a cross-blog conversation.
1 Conversation . . . 2 Blogs . . . 2 Directions
121: What Makes Your Heart Sing?
121: What’s the Key to a Promotion Strategy?
121: What’s the Key to a Promotion Strategy?
121: How Do You Get from Strategy to Execution?
121: How Do You Clearly Know What to Do?
121: How Do You Use Social Media to Stay Customer Centered?
121: Help! I’m Lost – My Business Is Out of Control
121: How Do You Write Compelling Conversational Copy?
121: From a Blog Writer to a Conversational Dynamo
121: How a Colossal Mistake Taught Me 3 Keys of Blogging and SEO
121: I Knew Everything about Relationships Until an Audience Came
121: We Met, But Did I Ever Say Hello? [blush]
Change the World: Use and Interpret the Data
Change the World: Each of Us Can
Change the World: A Small Generous Act that I Didn’t Expect
Change the World: Personal Service Counts
Change the World: Share a Mini-Vacation at a Favorite Place
Change the World: Let People Out of the Boxes
Change the World: That One Person Is Better
Change the World: Breaking the Law of My Limits
Change the World: Let Something Dawn on You
Change the World: One Touch on a Shoulder
Change the World: Give When No One Notices
Change the World: With Our Own Story
Change the World: Help Mihaela Protect Children Using the Web
Change the World: Positively Surprise a Grownup
Change the World: Don’t Hesitate to Ask or Offer
Change the World: Don’t Hesitate to Ask or Offer
Change the World: The Power of WE
Change the World: Doing What’s Humanly Possible
Change the World: See the Innocence
Change the World: Just Show Up . . . BE There
Change the World: The Power of Conversation
Change the World: Believe in a Dream
Change the World: Inspire Someone
Change the World: Swear Off Slaying Kittens
Change the World: Tell a Friend to Remember
Change the World: Have Purely Selfish Reasons
Change the World: Be Nice!
Change the World: Take a Moment to Find a Sense of Peace
Change the World: Have a Little Faith in Me
Change the World: Put Your Feelings Back
Change the World: Know What We’ve Got
Change the World: Tell Someone You Know
Change the World: With an Open Heart
Change the World: Learning to Learn
Change the World: Make Something Happen
Change the World: Try One More Time
Change the World: On and On to Learn
Change the World: Truth and Humility
Change the World: One World-Sized Idea
Change the World: Help Others Pursue the Passion
Change the World: Get Some Perspective
Change the World: Start a New Job
Change the World: Turn the You into We
Change the World: If You Can’t Say Something Nice
Change the World: Knowing When Not to Listen
Change the World: Compliments and Apologies
Change the World: Choosing Our Own Path
Change the World: Forget the Kids at School, Say It Out Loud
Change the World: Listen to the Wisdom of Children
Change the World: Give Someone Perspective
Change the World: Learn How to Be Alone
Change the World: Let Them Discover
Change the World: Ask for What You Need
Change the World: Shaping the World in Little Ways
Change the World: Be Disarming
Change the World: Take a Challenge
Change the World: Imagine You’re a Kid Playing Grownup
Change the World: Find the Promise
Change the World: Venture Up the Words
Change the World: Be Awe-Inspired
Change the World: Make the Sky a New Color
Change the World: Love Animals and Learn from Them!
Change the World: Are You Coming?
Change the World: Solve a Problem about Problems
Change the World: What if We Chose a Different Color?
Change the World: Think Unthinkably
Change the World: Be Wisdom Defined
Change the World: Choose the Ending
Change the World: Find Forgiveness
Questions to Get Closer to Your Brand: Question 1
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 2
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 3
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 4
Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 5
Building a Personal Brand – YOU
Brand YOU – Capitalize on Your Strengths
Brand YOU – Making Your Weaknesses Irrelevant
Personal Branding: Strengths Assessment Tool
Brand YOU – What’s the BIG IDEA?
Brand YOU – You Are What They See
Your Resume-The Brand YOU Brochure
Images & Sound-Bytes of a Brand YOU Leader
Brand YOU – Images and Sound-Bytes Tool
Brand YOU – 2 Keys to Leadership
Brand YOU – Handling Problems
Brand YOU – When An Apology Is in Order
5 Sure-Fire Ways to Break the Promise of Your Brand
Job [and Client] Hunting ala Liz
6 Steps to a Branded Business Blog in Record Time
7 Steps to Being Recognized as an Expert
What to Do Before They Ask What Do You Do?
The 10 Skills Most Critical to Your Future
Critical Skill 1: Strategic Deep Thinking
Critical Skill 2: Mental Flexibility
Critical Skill 2: Mental Flexibility Test
Critical Skill 3: Fluency: with Ideas
Critical Skill 4: Part 1-Process Models
Critical Skill 4: Part 2-Designing a Complex Process
Critical Skill 4: Part 3-A Virtual Process
Critical Skill 4: Part 4-Process Design Tool
Critical Skill 5A: 3 Parts of Spectacular Ideas
Critical Skill 5B: Sparking Spectacular Ideas
Critical Skill 6A: Five Tools for Finding Faulty Assumptions
Critical Skill 6B: 5+1 Ways to a Best-Fit Niche for YOU & the Market
Critical Skill 7: The Opportunity Action Test
Critical Skill 8: How to Know When to Act on Your Worries
Critical Skill 9: How to Have Positivity and Confidence Making Tough Decisions
Critical Skill 10: The 4 Keeper Traits of Productivity – Are YOU the New Killer App?
Why? Because – How Much More Do You Need?
Trendspotting: How to Crawl into People – Heads
Find My . . . um . . . Passion – What?!!
Trendspotting – Where 97.9% Fail
7 Steps & the Key to Spotting Trends
Right Brain Creative? Business Needs You
10 Reasons Creative Folks Make Us Crazy
We’re All Creative 1: The Bunnies Prove It
Think You’re Not Creative? That Could Cost You Your Job
We’re All Creative 3: Three Year Olds Are the Masters
Finding Ideas Outside the Box
FIOTB – Tool 1: Content Development Tool
Start in the Middle 1: Write a Three-Course Meal
Start in the Middle 2: Middle Idea Bank
Start in the Middle 3: Alligators and Anarchists
Eye-Deas 1: Have You Started Seeing Things?
Eye-Deas 2: Test Ideas with Photo Searches
Eye-Deas 3-Photo Content Checklist
Eye-Deas 4: Photo Ideas Bank
Monkey on Your Desk? Morph It, Mosh It, Write It Up
Creative Wonder 101 as Promotion and Problem Solving
Have Failure of the Imagination
Thinking Inside-Outside the SEO Sandbox
Finding Fodder for Future Ideas
Ideas When I Get My Hair Cut
Stop. Listen. Hear that Idea?
Ideas in Your Refrigerator
Finding Fodder for Future Ideas
Right Brain Creative? Business Needs You
Knowing How People Think – As a Business Tool
Ideas When I Get My Hair Cut
Right Brain Creative? Business Needs You
Knowing How People Think – As a Business Tool
A Silly Left Right Brain Test
Power Writing for Everyone–6+1 Traits
Introducing Power Writing for Everyone
Don’t Hunt IDEAS – Be an Idea Magnet
Got the Idea. Now What Do I Do with It?
Before You Publish – Check for Spiders and Opportunities
Writing Ugh! 10 Reasons to Get Jazzed about Writing
Editing: Just Some of My Very Different Thoughts
6-Minute Transition to Writing
Sample 6-Minute Transition
Don’t Fear the Blank Screen – Be a Miner
4 Writing Tips I Learned from Peter Gabriel
Writing for Readers – What’s My Promise as the Writer?
Content or Copy: Ignore the Difference at Your Own Risk
6+1 Traits of Effective Blog Writing
6+1 Ways to Compelling & Elegant Blog Posts
6+1: The Ferrari Analogy for Organized Writing
6+1: Writing Voice the Sound of Your Brand
6+1 Traits: Word Choice – Writing & Business Power Tool
6+1 Traits: Sentence Fluency – I Got Rhythm
Myth Busting -Write as You Talk – OR How to Write Conversationally
10 Sure-Fire Ways to Stop Making Writing So Hard
How Evil Pronouns Cause Arguments
Ever Try Capturing Ideas as They Form?
6+1, 2, 3: Save Me from Beginners and Experts NOW!
6+1: How-to Blogging – Stomp Out Swiss Cheese Knowledge
6+1 How to Write Without Self-Consciousness
6+1 Traits of Search Engine Relevant Content
More Writing Classics
9 + 1 Things Every Reader Wants from a Writer
9 + 1 -The Sequel – When Big Words Go Bad
12+1 Things Every Reader Wants from a How-To Article
The 9 Rights of Every Writer – Peer Pressure Is for Jr. High School
The Problem with Writing . . . 25 Things to Know BEFORE You Write for a Living
Can’t Write? Improve Your Skill Set to Improve Your Job Security
Business Blogging – Business Writing: Can You See the Elephant on the Net?
10 + 1 Things to Make Me Love Your Business Email
10 +1 Sure-Fire Ways to Get My Best Work – and the Best Work from Everyone – Every Time
No One Kills a Messenger who Writes for Readers – 8 Sales Rules for Writing
4+6 Things to a Product Review Even James Bond Would Trust
10 + 1 Reasons to Write Well, Not Perfect-ley OR Save the World with Realistic Expectations
A List Becomes 301 Links in Story - Chapter 1
301 Links in Story – Chapter 2 Lizzie Meets Fred
301 Links in a Story – Chapter 3 Lizzie Reaches the Paris Hilton
301 Links in a Story – Chapter 4 Lizzie, Jean, and Etch-a-Sketch
301 Links in a Story – Chapter 5 Lizzie, Americans, and French Bread
301 Links in a Story – Chapter 6 Intrigue and Romance
301 Links in a Story – Chapter 7 Lizzie, Rue Dante, and Who Hal Is
301 Links in a Story- Chapter 8 Lizzie, Amanda, Arianna, David, and Jeremy
301 Links in a Story – Chapter 9 The Lists of 10 and the CanCan
10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave CommentsIntroducing Customer Think
Customer Think: I’m Not a Kid, I’m a Person
Customer Think: Saying Things without Talking
Just Say YES!
An Open Thought: Please Take the Keys
Did You Drive My Blog Yet?
Bloggy Life Question 9
Do You Know a Customer When You See One?
There – No Putting ME in a Box
Don’t Hijack My Attention
Pick a Number – Just Make Sure It’s a BIG One
Better Than Hi! How Are Ya?
Don’t Pay Attention – Are You Curious?
Customers and Credibility
Quality, Schedule, Budget
Don’t Read Your PR, Read Your Marketing Copy
Getting Customers to Stop by to See You
Helping Clients Get Past Blogaphobia
Feeling a Customer’s First Response
How Was Your Day as a Customer?
How THEY Work -Why the Heck Do I Care?
Customer Solve Your Own Problem
Don’t Read Your PR, Read Your Marketing Copy
Why? Because – How Much More Do You Need?
Do You Know Where Your Eyes Go?
Always Choose for Your Readers, Right?
Airplanes, Airports, and Ideas
Service with a Smile
Much, much more to come. 🙂
This is where Successful and Outstanding people, businesses, and bloggers meet to talk about ideas, branding, and thinking outside the box. The content is organized, thorough, and relevant. The conversation is fun, fast, and sometimes irreverent. The snacks and beverages are keep in sidebar, help yourself and stay as long as you like. Comments are appreciated. My name’s Liz. I pretty much live here.
In 2006, as a professional blogger, I established this NEW Blogger Page on Successful-Blog. I filled it with links to resources and advice for people starting a new blog. Yet, as my blog and my business kept growing and changing, the New Blogger Page moved to the background of what I did. Social media networks needed exploring. SOBCon and my own business were growing. New clients were taking the time I used to have for keeping the page in it’s most updated condition.
Yet my blog still supports me and my business endeavors, especially as content strategy, content marketing, and content management have all become critically important to every business. So I’ve decided to reinvest in the New Business Blogger Page with an eye how blogs fit within Successful Online Business Strategy today. I’ve read through the original links and spent hours researching more. Every link included is here because the content is important to succeeding.
New beginnings inspire and energize me.
I’ll be publishing new blog posts filled with resources for successful and outstanding bloggers today.
Great bloggers read great blogs. Here’s where to find some to use to determine your own standards, to see what works with your potential audience, to begin relationships with other bloggers in your niche by commenting on their blogs.
Google Blog Search
Advice from Successful and Outstanding Business Bloggers to share the culture, the best practices, and the “rules.”
After 5000+ blog posts, I can say this for certain …
If you don’t have a blog in your business strategy, your strategy has a gaping hole.
You’re missing a chance to connect with customers around your deepest and most useful expertise. You’re working right past the opportunity to show customers how you can make their work and their lives easier, faster, and more meaningful.
Easier, faster, more meaningful are irresistible.
Be irresistible
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz on your business!!
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More updates to come.
Prelaunch Blog Review Checklist
What Makes A Successful Blog?
Know Your Goals
Know Your Audience
Don’t Buy that New Domain Name Yet
Blog Review Checklist
Cardinal Sin #1: Launching With No Content
The Sidebar Is How Readers Know Things
Adsense Blog Says How to Blogmitize!
Added 5.09.06 Google Blogger — 403 Forbidden — How Could You Let that Happen!
Added 5.09.06 Google — Do You Have Something to Tell Me?
Five Design Basics to Never Forget
Success in a Blink and a Blink Test
More Blog Designs to Discuss
Blog Construction — What’s Your Function?
Added 6.13.06 WordPress Theme Viewer
Added 6.13.06 Great Finds: Over 875 Free WordPress Themes
Added 5.05.06 Great Find: Color and Font Codes
Added 6.11.06 Great Finds: EchoEcho on and on and on
ul and ol — The Secret Life of HTML Lists
Directory Listings as Blog Promotion
Added 5.13.06 List of Blog Submission Sites
Great Photo Resources to Support Readers
Added 6.13.06 The Ultimate Blog Directory Handbook: Over 1800+ Submission Sites
Great Find: Tlog Blogging Tips Series
Blog Promotion Basics [for Everyone]
Building Traffic: Leaving Comments
Blog Promotion: Checking Out Curb Appeal
GAWKER Design: Curb Appeal as Customer-Centered Promotion
Why Doesnââ¬â¢t Pete Townshend Need to Do Promotion?
Blog Archive Promotion To-Do List
Audience is Your Destination
Know Your Audience
Writing for a Diverse Readership
Turning Reluctant Readers into Loyal Fans
How To Deal With Negative Comments
Blog Basics 1: Comments and Comment Policies
Great Find: SEOmoz Beginnerââ¬â¢s Guide
Technoratiââ¬â¢s Family of Support Pages
Added 4.23.06 Title Tags and a Poem to Technorati
SEOââ¬âFive Traits of Relevant Content
SEOââ¬âLink Checking Tools
Check Google Backlinks Through Yahoo
Added 4.27.06 SEO The Secret Life of Search Engines
Link Love Raises Your Property Value
Blog Basics 2: How to Code Links
Think Before You Link
How to Code Accessible Linksââ¬âPart 1
How to Find Homes for Your Links
Ignore Stinky Backlinks
Collaboration Link 1: Image and Text
No More NoFollow
How to Write Powerful Content that Powerfully Connects
Writing Killer Blog Posts
How Long Should Blog Posts Be?
How Often Should You Post?
Blogging Dos
Blogging Don’ts
The Benefits of a Conversational Style
Consistency In Writing Frequency
Added 5.13.06Writing for a Diverse Readership
How To Beat Writer’s Block
Questions about Burnout and Writer’s Block
Why Dave Barry and Liz Don’t Get Writer’s Block
Added 4.23.06Blogger/ Firefoxââ¬âEditing Trap
MUST HAVE: Content Theft Series
Great Find: Controlling Your Online Identity
Blogger’s Legal Guide
Go Exploring Here for Checklists .
Go Exploring Here for Tools
Added 6.10.06 Great Find: Easy File Backups
Top 10 Ways to Become a Miserable Blogger
FUN Finds: How to Be a Blogging Idol
Oh yes, and read Successful Blog everyday!
Folksonomy and tag categories got your eyes crossed?
Has social bookmarking started controlling you rather than the other way around?
Hi. My name is Liz and I’m a social bookmarker.
At first I just did it on the weekends to keep track of a few sites and articles I liked. Then I started social bookmarking to get new ideas. Soon it became a daily habit–once, then twice, then many times a day. I got to recognize submitters names and tastes. I started submitting myself–things I saw that I liked.
Social bookmarking utilities were both a great boon and a great downfall to my productivity. I could go there to find a passel of spectacular ideas. But more and more I found myself lost in an enchanted forest, thinking I’d leave after the next look, or the next, or maybe the next. The disorganization of the folksonomy became an addiction–I kept thinking the next title I saw might be the fabulous prize I was looking for. It was intellectual gambling.
That’s when I knew I needed help, and I found it at Quick Online Tips.
Finally, someone has collected tools and tips from all over the Internet to help Social Bookmarking addicts.
Great Find: Absolutely Del.icio.us – Complete Tool Collection from Quick Online Tips
Type of article: List of posts on tools for using Del.icio.us
Permalink: http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tool.html
Audience: Anyone wants to make the most of social bookmarking
Content: This list offers well over 100 posts that discuss how to use del.icio.us to get the most out of it. You’ll find the Beelerspace Beginners Guide as well as the popular Slacker Manager post, the Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us users. Most of the hints and helps here will work with any social bookmarking utility you use.
Click the screenshot to begin a new life of tackling that taxonomy.
If you try this at home, don’t read the entire list at one sitting. Choose one or two to explore each morning. Then come back to tag my best work to share with your friends. 🙂
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool for research, idea generation, and promoting your business. It’s a great way for those of us in the Magic Middle to exert our control as an audience. Learning how to use it efficiently and effectively can
Of course, I exaggerated the downside of social bookmarking at the start of this article, but the temptation to spend too much time exploring is also very real. How do you keep social bookmarking from eating up your time? How do you use it to its best advantage?
–ME “Liz” Strauss
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