Archive | November, 2008

Day 7 – One week down, still holding strong

I thought to mark the 7th day of the blog-o-thon I’d share a little wisdom from the brand new problogservice blog (that’s where I work). It is truly a great resource for improving the performance of your website or blog. The two most important things I thought I’d cover are simplifying content and conversion points. [...]

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Day 6 – Changing marketing hubs

The other day, my old boss Matt Zentz posted an entry on his Practical Internet Marketing blog about the ‘hub and spoke’ theory of marketing.  His main point was that you should visualize your marketing with your website in the middle and all your other marketing efforts (blogging, social media, ppc, radio ads, tv ads, [...]

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Day 5 – There’s no such thing as blogging for SEO

Okay before you flame me just hear me out.  SEO (search engine optimization) means that you take the necessary steps within your site to ensure that it ranks as high in the major search engines as possible (internal seo) and linking to your site from as many other sites as possible (external seo).  Obviously I’m [...]

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Day 4 – What’s Going on with Social Media in Indianapolis (Part 1)

Day 4 of the Blog-o-Thon is here, and I thought I’d send out some love to all the great social media that’s happening here in Indianapolis.  I try to connect with as many local bloggers as possible, and I thought doing a piece on all the great bloggers whose blogs I keep up with would [...]

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Day 3 – Let’s talk about social bookmarking

                           Welcome to day 3 of the Indy Awesome blog-o-thon. One new addition to Indyawesome.com is the Add-to-any social bookmarking plugin, which adds the +Share/Save button at the bottom of each post.  I really didn’t do much research as far as which plugin to choose, [...]

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Day 2 – Installing a new theme in wordpress

As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Indy Awesome has a new look, and I’m proud to say that (besides some important advice from some good friends) I did all the work myself.  How did I do it?  Well that’s the topic of day 2 of the 30-day blog-o-thon. How did I do it?  Well first I [...]

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The 30 day Blog-o-Thon!!! Day 1

Lately I’ve been noticing that a lot of people with so-called ‘social media blogs’ don’t update with new posts very often.  It got me thinking about how often I blog and I came up with a fantastic Idea.  Starting today I’m going to post a new blog entry every day for the next thirty days. [...]

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I’m about a year behind on Twitter

Did I miss the boat? I’m an early adopter. There’s really no use for me to get involved if all the other early adopters are already on board. I’m a pioneer, an explorer, a wild child of destiny! I need a little stimulation in my life, not just the status quo. Okay seriously, I started [...]

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Professional Blogging

What does it mean to be a professional blogger?  There are different definitions, and different ways to monetize your blog.  Personally, I didn’t start this blog to make money, I started it to be famous (though I do hope the two go hand in hand).  I’m not saying that you’ll never see ads on my [...]

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What does it all mean?

Anyone remember that movie High Fidelity (one of my favorite flicks)?  There’s this scene where Catherine Zetta-Jones’ character is speaking with John Cusack’s character asking him if he’s going through one of those ‘What does it all mean?’ things.  I think we all feel that way every once in a while. I’m kind of in [...]

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