As Easy as A-B-C

A-B-C. A-always, B-be, C-closing. Always be closing! Always be closing!! Chances are if you’ve been anywhere near a sales position you’ve heard this classic line from Glengarry Glen Ross. However, after reading a recent post by Chris Garrett on Problogger, I realized there’s an A-B-C that applies to blogging as ...

Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories?

I’ve been a participant in the social media scene, both as a reader and content producer, for a quite a while now. I’ve had several stories I’ve written become popular and I’ve had even more submissions make it. But no matter how many stories I read or submissions I see, ...

The Lasting Digg Effect

Welcome Digg Users! You may also be interested in our latest post, Are You Sabotaging Your Social Stories? Just about every blogger around knows how powerful hitting the front page of Digg.com can be. We’ve all heard the stories about the massive horde of visitors swarming over a site in ...

Cartoon Caption Contest!

Normally on Fridays I do a phrase auction , however, it’s been a really long week and I needed to lighten the mood a bit. Also, it seems that the novelty of the idea has worn off a bit and it might not be something a lot of you are ...

Prison Break: Lessons on Blogging

This guest post is written by Christine Kayser, the co-founder and writer for MovieSnobs.net, a movie news and review site. E-mail her at christine[at]moviesnobs.net to talk about new movies, The Wizard of Oz, or how talented Wentworth Miller is. I think she really captured the spirit of this sort of ...

Google Screwing Publishers… (yes, again)

The big news in the blogosphere lately has been the announcement that Google is going to once again screw over their publishers to cater to their advertisers. Naturally that’s not quite how they put it but it’s pretty obvious that’s what they’re doing. Darren over at Problogger broke the news ...

The Office: Lessons on Blogging

The Office is easily one of my favorite comedies on TV right now, despite getting off on the wrong foot. I was originally introduced to the British version of the show and found the American version to be an obnoxious ripoff of the fantastic original. However, as the show has ...

Media, Mm Mm Good!

Surprisingly enough it’s been a while since I’ve seen a meme go around the blogosphere. Maybe I’m not paying attention or maybe I’m not as well connected as I thought but in either case, that has changed. I’ve not only seen a meme, I’ve been tagged in one. Personally, I’m ...

Your Blog Might Suck

I don’t know about you but I’m ready for the weekend. But, since it’s only Tuesday I figured I would lighten things up a bit. This post is meant to be funny but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still some good points in it as well. I’m not sure why ...