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The 3 Business Blog Strategies

By Brad Shorr | Published: June 9, 2009
These days, lots of companies want to blog, but can’t figure out how to get started. I’m going to try to make it easy. Business Blog Strategy 1 – The SEO Blog Three business blogging activities take time – writing, traditional marketing, and social media engagement. Of the three, social media engagement often takes the [...]
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Guest Post on Confident Writing – Blogs that Nurture Community

By Brad Shorr | Published: May 8, 2009
Now that Joanna Young’s Confident Writing blog is up again, I want to let you know my guest post on nurturing community through blogging is live. Thanks, Joanna, for the guest post opportunity. The post is also my entry for Robert Hruzek’s May group project, What I Learned From Community. There’s still time to enter. [...]
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Online Marketing Is Creepy

By Brad Shorr | Published: April 28, 2009
Most of us have heard of Mission Creep or Project Creep. Have you noticed how many Creeps there are in online marketing? Email Creep. I’m trying to consolidate all my emails down to one, and not having much success. For one reason or another, there always seems to be a group or a project or [...]
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Why I Love Working with Consultants

By Brad Shorr | Published: March 13, 2009
“I’ll admit it. I’ve had my consulting practice for close to 20 years and I just created a website, and only because my book was published. I am what you’d call a late adopter in any technology cycle, other than the Apple I phone which I bought after it was on the market for a [...]
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Blogging Relationships Are Gold for the Soul

By Brad Shorr | Published: February 4, 2009
Image by Getty Images via Daylife To celebrate her 4 Year Blogiversary, Alina Popescu launched a group project called Blogging and Relationships. When I started blogging in 2005, I never dreamed how many wonderful people I’d meet and how much I’d learn from them. It would be impossible to remember all of it… Continue reading
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Do You Suffer from SME Info Dump Syndrome?

By Brad Shorr | Published: January 26, 2009
Not long ago I was with some people (normal people, that is – ones who don’t sit in front of a computer screen 24/7) and someone mentioned something in passing about blogs. In no time, I was waxing eloquent about RSS feeds, the appeal of interactive marketing, and the merits of WordPress over competing blog [...]
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Making a Sale by Turning It Down

By Brad Shorr | Published: January 9, 2009
Last week I was having coffee with a gentleman who has developed an advertising platform for bloggers – a very interesting service indeed. At one point in the conversation, I asked him if he thought I could earn any ad revenue from his program. He said no, not really. I was stunned. No evasions, no [...]
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A Dream Comes True – the 100 Comment Post

By Brad Shorr | Published: November 23, 2008
Ever since I was a little boy**, I dreamed of a 100-comment blog post. Just now, it happened, sort of spontaneously when I mentioned my dream on a post about endless cell phone conversations. Thanks to Karen, Joanna, Robert, Cam, Marcus, Tabetha, Ellen, Anita, Jacob, Luke, Sterling, Paul, Parth, Cath, Ulla Continue reading
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