December 25, 2008

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas, Everbody! Today I’ll be relaxing, opening gifts, and playing video games, but if you happen to be around, why not leave me a comment? You could win some cool prizes in the Christmas Giveaway! (ends tonight at 11:50pm) So stay tuned because I’ll probably be uploading some photos to the flickr and tweeting [...]

December 14, 2008

Can You Build a Successful Blog in One Hour a Day? - Blogging Experiment

(This post has been updated with the new conditions regarding the experiment. I’ll be turning the results into an ebook.)
So Problogger posted this post a few months back asking what you might do if you only had one hour a day to build your blog. The idea got me thinking. What if you were just [...]

November 22, 2008

The Great Marketing Experiment - Week 3

Welcome to week three of the great marketing experiment. I’d like to take a moment to apologize, because the bad karma mojo has returned, and it appears as though the tracking code for getclicky analytics was removed from the blog for most of this week. Which means, of course, that the statistics are now off, [...]

November 18, 2008

Do You Read Blog Archives?

The problem with mainstream media is that it’s mainstream. The news you get is current, and applies directly to short term situations. What’s awesome about blogs, forums, and information databases (wikipedia) is that the information is more solid, and can easily apply to everyday life. A lot of blogs refer to informative articles as “pillar [...]

November 15, 2008

The Great Marketing Experiment - Week Two

This week has actually been much slower than last week, and I’m going to assume it’s because this week’s tactic is one that probably requires months to utilize, and not seven days. Nonetheless, I thought I’d take a moment to see how effective a week of forum marketing could be. The answer? Not very.
Statistics from [...]

November 8, 2008

The Great Marketing Experiment - Week One

As I announced, this month I’m conducting an experiment to see how effective online marketing techniques are. The purpose is to use techniques that are supposed to expand your online presence and see how much traffic they generate. This week I tried blog commenting and did some social media work, as the first step in [...]