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Blogosphere Trends + A Challenge

ProBlogger

Thanks for joining me for another edition of the weekly blogosphere trends, provided by Regator.com. Your challenge: If you normally steer clear of list posts, write one this week. Read more about: Writing list posts. Consider each then choose the best one before publishing. Blogosphere Trends + A Challenge.

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6 Places Your Customers Find You Online

Small Business Mavericks

Your Blog – Add a blog to your website and update it every day, or as often as you can publish valuable content. Online Listing Websites – These include Google Places, Bing Local, and YellowPages.com. Some listing sites are more valuable than others, but they all give you another place to connect with potential customers.

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Blogosphere Trends + Interview Tips

ProBlogger

As always, the weekly blogosphere trends have been provided by Regator.com. Try a brief, polite email or phone call first, detailing what you’d like to talk about, the amount of time you expect it to take, why you are interested in talking with that individual in particular, and when/where the piece will be published. Share This.

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Blogosphere Trends + Guest Posting

ProBlogger

Regator has, as always, provided a list of the ten most blogged-about stories of the last seven days, and we’ll use posts about those hot trends to learn about what makes a great guest post: 1. When you pitch a post or idea, it should be something that has not been published on your blog or any other blog. Apple fever is an epidemic.].

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5 Essential Elements of a Successful Self-published Book

ProBlogger

Self-publishing is a hot trend. The most successful self published authors treat their books as if they’re working with a publisher. The most successful self published authors treat their books as if they’re working with a publisher. an email List. You could write the greatest book in the world.

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Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts

ProBlogger

You have three options: (a) Publish it as is and risk having distractible readers (that’s almost all of them) get click happy and leave your blog (b) Break it up into a series (c) use some of the methods below to make the post more scannable and digestible. Blogosphere Trends + Handling High Word Counts. Share This.

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How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog

ProBlogger

I’m not sure I’d be quite as extreme as Chris suggests – but there’s food for thought in the list and I suspect that enacting some of his suggestions from would add new dimensions to a blog (and maybe even help a little with the echo chamber thing too): 1. Wait a week before publishing your thoughts on hot topics.