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Hello My Lovelies,
Alright, I’m not gonna’ apologize again this week for publishing this post a bit late cause you all had better excuses than me last week and I can’t compete with most of them lol.
However, I do want to apologize to a few people (you know who you are) who left comments on last Wednesday’s Bring IT! for being tardy in responding. No worries, I did NOT forget you – I never do – and will be back over there to reply to each and every one of you shortly. Until then, thank you for your patience :).
For that however, I do have a good excuse ;).
As many of you know, I was over at Danny Brown’s house (still am) answering some seriously awesome comments on my guest post about Social Media manners. Seeing that there are 100 of them now (and counting) – you can imagine how overwhelming it can be (in a fantastic way) and how my fingers are slowly falling off but I’m greatly enjoying typing with my right thumb and left index fingers so please feel free to keep ’em coming cause I’ll keep on replying ;)!
Does that excuse fly with you guys?
“For God sake’s Rick, give me a break! I know you’re gonna’ have another kick-ass excuse for me, but this is all I got for ya my friend.”
“And Alex, I’m devastated about your Pagerank “darling”! There is no way in hell that my PR is 3 and to tell you honestly I have no clue what I did to get it. But are we good with my excuse?”
“Brankica, I know you’re here my happy Sharp Shootin’ Serbian and I have no doubt that you’re aiming to thrash Danny B’s commenting record this month but you do believe me, don’t you?”
Time for Some Goodies…
Anyhow, as you might have noticed, this week’s SuperPost Sunday is a bit less thick than usual – but it sure as hell doesn’t mean that it’s less worthy. All 21 links kicks-ass!
But in all honestly – would you have noticed had I not told you?
WHATEVER…to whoever said yes, cause there’s like 4 or 5 less less articles than usual – it’s not like I provided you with 2 super posts!
I would tell you why that is, but at this point, I wouldn’t even dare suggest another reason (cough) – I mean lame-ass excuse lol.
Look on the bright side, you have less reading homework to do ;).
Alright enough chatting…
“Without further ado and blah blah,” here are this Sunday’s rockin’ SuperPosts on all things Social Media, Blogging Tips, SEO, Internet Marketing, Traffic Building, Online Money Making Tools and more.
Social Media
- How social media amplifies competitive advantage – by Mark Schaefer, businessesgrow.com
When Jay Baer speaks, I listen. In fact, the blogger and co-author of The Now Revolution is one of the smartest guys I know. But he wrote a blog post this week that made me think a lot about the changing nature of competition…
- How to Double Your Retweets In Two Days – by Jonathan Wondrusch, socialmouths.com
Three weeks ago, I was in a place where my best posts were getting around 25 retweets – max. Average was 15-20. Sure, I had a few outliers like the launch of my e-book that got even more, but what I really wanted was a way…
- Are we too busy tweeting to care? – by Antonia Harler, socialglitz.com
There’s something I’m increasingly starting to notice about myself and before you ask, no, I do not like what I’m noticing. Like not at all. I have issues. Serious issues. Not *that* kind of issues but issues nonetheless…
- The secret to getting 50,000 followers on Twitter – by David Meerman Scott, webinknow.com
The secret is that there is no secret. You need to do 5,000 things and each thing you do, on average, needs to gain you ten new followers. (Unless you are already famous like Howard Stern who got 200,000 followers...
- Klout for Business: A Useful Metric – but an Incomplete View of Your Customer – by Jeremiah Owyang, web-strategist.com
Special Treatment of Select Customers Isn’t Anything New. Just as companies have been treating wealthy customers, or customers who are more likely to spend more with preferential treatment, there’s no surprise…
- Say GOODBYE to Celebrity Marketing and say hello to PEOPLE marketing – by Aaron Lee, askaaronlee.com
The DAWN of the social media marketing. Once upon a time, there was a distant; far away period on Earth where celebrities rule the planet with their faces plastered on posters, billboards, magazines, and last year …TWITTER…
- 50 Great Blogs That You Should Read And Subscribe – by Lye Kuek Hin, findmyblogway.com
I read a lot of blogs, in fact far too many. That’s the way to keep up with the latest trend and observe what your business friends have been doing. I would like to share with you today the blogs that you can find in my Google Reader…
- Common Courtesy? Yes Please, Thank You! – by Yours Truly, dannybrown.me
You’re at a dinner and someone compliments the outfit that took you 20 minutes to pick out. What do you say? You’ve written an article which took you 15 minutes to research and another 30 minutes to write…
- Feature Friday: What Nike Can Teach Us About Social Media – by Brandon Yanofsky, ariherzog.com
Do you know where Nike’s Just Do It! slogan came from? A serial killer was about to be executed by firing squad. When asked if he had any last words, he said, Let’s Do It! The advertiser who transformed this into the Nike…
Blogging Tips
- 5 Reasons First Graders Would Rule the Blogging World – by Judy Dunn, bestbloggingtipsonline.com
When I was a first grade teacher, the end of summer always made me reflective (actually, it still does). If there was going to be change, it was going to happen in the sun-drenched days of September. Like the first day of school…
- Have You Lost Your Blogging Focus? – I Have! – by Tony Hastings, thetop10blog.com
And this is what I’m going to do about it! I have woken up on this Monday morning with the realisation that I have lost my blogging focus. I have been spending the same amount of time on the blog as I always have but somehow…
- 23 Things That Shouldn’t Stop You From Blogging – by Joey Strawn, bestbloggingtipsonline.com
There’s an 800-pound gorilla in the room and we haven’t really addressed it yet. We talk about how to blog and some techniques to make it easier. We even talk about some places and ways to get ideas for blogs, but one thing…
Internet Marketing
- Social Media: Phony Following Twits – by Rick LaPoint, internetmarketing.ricklapoint.com
Who is Following you on Twiiter? Where did they come from? Did you Follow them back? Here is an interesting and revealing look at what goes on within the Dark Side of Twitter. It always amazes me when I see…
Traffic Building
- The Two Things I Did to Increase My Blog’s Traffic by 68% in One Month – by Corbett Bar, thinktraffic.net
What a difference a month can make. In last month’s report I shared that this site received 11,845 visits in that month, and 11,924 in the month prior. This month this site received 19,982 visits. That’s an increase of 68.7%…
Personal Branding
- Ascent of the social media climbers: Klout goes mainstream – by Beth Teitell, businessesgrow.com
After Valentina Monte accepts a date, the Boston University junior quickly goes online to see how many Twitter followers her suitor has. She checks her own follower count three times a day. When she meets someone who admits…
Online Money Making Tools
- Is Blogging Right For You? – by David Risley, davidrisley.com
Most of the people who read my blog and blogs like it are interested in making money from blogging. Actually, if we just cut to the chase, they’re just interested in making money online. If blogging happens to be the way to do it…
MishMash
- You Don’t Have to Die to Live [Day 21-28 to GYST] – by Danny Brown, escaping-mediocrity.com
When I was 19 I tried to kill myself. I don’t often speak about this. It’s probably not the kind of topic you talk about at dinner, or on a first date, or when you meet prospective in-laws. Sometimes, though, it’s a good reminder…
- Great Speeches in Films – by Keith Davis, easypublicspeaking.co.uk
I was chatting to Colin Firth last week…. not that Colin Firth, my neighbour Colin Firth. Incidentally my wife has never been the same since she saw that Colin Firth in the lake scene in Pride and Prejudice…
- Strategy Lessons: The Ground Book – by Geoff Livingstone, geofflivingstone.com
A Book of Five Rings, written by Miyamoto Musashi in 1645, is one of the world’s classic sources of strategy. The book’s influence extends beyond military schools to the entire Japanese business culture, and has made…
- The secret to running a perfect business – by Jim Connolly, jimsmarketingblog.com
If your business was perfect in every way, what would it look like? Not many people actually ask themselves that question, yet it’s extremely important for you to know what you are aiming for; your gold standard, if you like…
- The 6 Crappiest Interview Questions – by Matthew Inman, theoatmeal.com
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