Successful Blogs

I don’t know if everyone suffers from this, but it’s been four days since I got back from my summer holiday, and I just can’t get back into the swing of work and, more importantly, blogging.
The first problem comes on my return to work. I turn on the PC, enter my user name, and tab [...]

I love the psychology of the internet, especially marketing of products.
Almost daily, it seems, we’re being treated to the outpourings of probably the best marketing team in the business - that of Apple. Their latest high-profile launch, that of the iPhone, is creating a huge buzz.
Check this article
So why is this? Is it a fantastic, [...]

As a blogger, it’s sometimes interesting to look a little beyond the blogosphere. After all, we need to interact with real people, who have other, real-world influences on them. Understanding how other marketers approach the problem of marketing to real people can give real insight.
I subscribe to the Monday Morning Memo. It is written by [...]

Another article I read in “What no one tells you about Blogging and Podcasting” concerns the use of blogs to aid marketing.
David Meerman Scott, author of “Cashing in with Content”, and owner of WebInkNow, discovered how a blog can aid your business first hand. He wrote a short e-book entitled “The New Rules of PR”, [...]

At the moment, much of my weekend is spent out of touch of the internet. I find this both frustrating and enlightening, because I have chance to read print books, instead of poring over websites and forums, looking for new ideas for content.
For instance, I’m currently reading “What no one tells you about Blogging and [...]

I’ve been surfing around for information. I’ve read Darren Rowse’s Adsense tips, and also downloaded the free report from Adsense Secrets. They both offer good sensible advice on how to get the best out of Adsense. I have also read the 15 simple Adsense tips.
Yesterday, I had some fun!
First of all, I checked by server [...]

Over at Problogger, Darren Rowse has a group writing project / competition, with a prize and everything! All entrants will have links featured on his weblog, and have a chance of winning the top prize.
I’m all for prevarication. In fact, I’m a bit of an expert in it, although this post temporarily disproves that fact. [...]

When I first started blogging, sometime around the Medieval times, I think, I started a Blogger blog. It used a standard theme, and it was about writing. It was this one, and I used it to keep a diary of what I was writing and how it was going, and I tinkered with the template [...]

I love psychology. I read about it a lot.
My first ‘light bulb’ moment in psychology was in my degree course - many, many years ago, when a lecturer (sitting on the desk at the front of the lecture theatre - we nicknamed him “I’m Yer Mate”) explained why we feel uncomfortable standing in a lift [...]

One of the ideas I had when I wanted to set up Successful Blogs was to have a number of blogs which reflected my interests, and hopefully the interests of my readers.
I should have read this post from Raj Dash over at Performancing.com. He discusses some of the dangers of running too many blogs, which [...]