Marketing

Blogging with Heart Award

In this post, I gave the Blog with Heart Award to some of my favorite bloggers who continue to put themselves out there for the sake of being real and sharing their love with the world.

I would love for you to come see who received this award and also pass it along to anyone you know who continues to write from their heart.

  • Planted: 3rd Feb

MLM Recruiting: How to Recruit People to Your Business Effortlessly

MLM recruiting is the ONLY thing that will build a significant income in your MLM business. Use these principles to explode your recruiting efforts.

Home Based Business Coaching

  • Planted: 2nd Feb

Network Marketing Recruiting: How to Recruit People like the Pros

Network Marketing recruiting is the ONLY thing that will build a significant income in your Network Marketing business. Use these principles to explode your recruiting efforts.

Home based Business Coaching

  • Planted: 2nd Feb

One, Two, Three, What the Hell Do YOU See?

There's a large, pink, elephant in the middle of the room.  Am I the only one that sees it?  Shouldn't we DO something about it?  here, elephant, elephant, elephant...

  • Planted: 29th Jan

Burning the members, a good or bad thing?

Everyone has a different stance on whether you should prune your users. No answer is correct, but there are positives and negatives that come with purging users from a database. So, today we are going to  highlight some of the pros and con’s of purging us

  • Planted: 24th Jan

BlogEngage – Free Blog Blasting, Link Building, Community Giveaway!

The BlogEngage blogging community - here's what it is, how it can help you build backlinks and traffic to your blog, and a chance to win free Gold and Regular membership!

  • Planted: 23rd Jan

What Has Blogging Taught You?

A few of the things I've learned while blogging: 

       •You can find friends in the most unlikely of places.

Sometimes it takes documentation for me to recognize my blessings. And my growth.

Not only can I learn new things in my 30s, but I can learn them well enough to teach others.

  • Planted: 9th Apr
  • Buzzed: 15 times in 1 year 43 weeks
  • Invites: 11 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

the art & business of crafting your online self

how do you communicate the “essence of you” online? your online identity becomes the sum total of the information you share online. sharing information, forming relationships, and allowing your personality to show through creates an interesting & authoritative online persona that can truly market your business and grow your network.

  • Planted: 11th Mar
  • Buzzed: 14 times in 1 year 47 weeks
  • Invites: 3 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

(Un)Social Networking

A review of the impact of social networking on communication and conversation between members of the general public. It considers the mass and wealth of information that is placed on websites such as Facebook and Twitter whilst it concedes the usefulness of the technology for promoting stronger relationships between distancing parties.

  • Planted: 9th Mar
  • Buzzed: 8 times in 1 year 47 weeks

Blogging Tips

I have had so many people ask me for blog tips, or how to do stuff on blogs, and I am by no means an expert, but I wanted to have one post where I show and tell everyone how I do what I do! These are just some tips I have learned along the way of my one year of blogging. Feel free to use the button below to share these tips with others!

  • Planted: 16th Feb
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 50 weeks 4 days
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Useful Blog Networking Sites

The Point of This Post (yes, I do have one) is to share a few websites I've joined since becoming a dedicated blogger.  Bear in mind that I have only been blogging regularly since last August, so this may be old news to you.  At any rate, I've found these sites useful in building my blog:

  • Planted: 17th Jan
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 1 year 2 weeks
  • Invites: 1 member is inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Reduce Your Carbon Footprint With Vintage Shoes (And Other Vintage Fashions & Accessories)

EeBay’s latest ad campaign includes promoting the eBay Green Team by pointing out how environmentally kind and ethical wearing previously owned clothing is: The greenest product is the one that already exists.

The facts presented in the promotion may be new, but the principal probably isn’t news to vintage fashion lovers & those who are generally thrifty. The question is, do you think this will change buying habits?

  • Planted: 17th Mar
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 1 year 46 weeks
  • Invites: 4 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Does Alexa ranking matter to you?

One topic that bloggers and webmasters always seem to debate about is Alexa ranking.  In case you do not know what Alexa ranking is, it is a ranking system that is based on traffic to your site.  I relate it to the Nielsen ratings for TV.  Alexa makes their determinates by looking at traffic from those users that have the Alexa toolbar installed.  Many folks in the web world will make a judegement that the lower your Alexa scorte, the better your site.  For example, Google has an Alexa ranking of 1.  It seems that bloggers are split right down the middle with s

  • Planted: 12th Mar
  • Buzzed: 6 times in 1 year 47 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Writing on Taboo Topics; How to Be Fearless

There are many reasons writers will edit/censor their work, and I am guilty of doing the same… For example Fear of being politically incorrect Personal issues that may be too clear and might expose something you’re unwilling to share Worry of what someone might think; touching on sensitive subjects or it just makes you uncomfortable And the worst mistake any writer can make… Trying to appeal to everyone; Playing it safe Are you guilty of censoring your pen for the sake of status, personal opinion and/or judgment?

  • Planted: 6th Oct
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 17 weeks 2 days

Why You Blog

I recently blogged about the benefits of blogging and how it has helped my writing and my aspirations to become published. Why do you blog and how does it help you?

  • Planted: 2nd Oct
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 17 weeks 6 days
  • Invites: 4 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Tag, Anyone?

This is just a blogger game of tag - great way to have some fun and get links back to your blog. 

Okay, these are the rules -

(a bit generic  - I borrowed them from an old game of tag and then just tweaked them a bit):

  • Planted: 4th Nov
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 1 year 13 weeks

Blogging For's Official 7 Link Challenge Response #7links

Recently, Darren Rowse from Problogger.net put up a challenge for bloggers.

It's pretty simple:

Write about 7 links you want to share with other bloggers, one of which links out elsewhere and if you want, you can talk about the links you've chosen. Add a little summary for each.

Here's what the 7 link challenge asks:

1. Your first post

2. A post you enjoyed writing the most

3. A post which had a great discussion

4. A post on someone else's blog that you'd wish you'd written

  • Planted: 23rd Jul
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 1 year 28 weeks

Passion is Power

“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.”

- Georg Wilhem Friedrich Hegel

Two weeks ago I wrote an article on the Top 10 Reasons to Take a Job You Hate.  Just by reading the title, you might think that I’m opposed to passion. 

The opposite is true.

  • Planted: 27th Mar
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 1 year 44 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Quitting Your Day Job

It seems like a lot of the people out there who focus full-time on craft businesses, Etsy shops, blogging, freelance design businesses, etc, have a partner or spouse with a steady income stream. That steady partner in crime helps make it possible for so many of these people to take the leap and devote more time to their creative business endeavors. But what about those people who are single?

  • Planted: 5th Mar
  • Buzzed: 5 times in 1 year 48 weeks

Pros and Cons of High Posting Frequency on your Blog

How Will Regular Posting Effect My Blog?

Posting frequency can increase traffic in a few different ways.

  • Planted: 27th Dec
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 5 weeks
  • Invites: 3 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

SEO should mean Selecting Every Opportunity

SEO is a term most web designer's know, but for the small business person like me it's a conundrum of rules and regs dictated by Google and some by Yahoo that seems overwhelming to understand.

  • Planted: 2nd Oct
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 17 weeks
  • Invites: 2 members are inviting Guest Posts on this seed

Three Things Everyone Can Learn From Blogging

If your one of those people that think you can’t learn anything from blogging, then you are absolutely wrong. You can learn a few things from blogging because even I learn things every so often. So, what can you learn from blogging?

What People are Interested in

How Horrible Your Writing is and How to Improve

How Fun Blogging Is

  • Planted: 16th Jun
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 33 weeks

How to Keep Blogger’s Block at Bay

Let's face it, it is sometimes draining to come up with unique content and promote your blog day in and day out.  In this post, you will discover some tips and inspiration and learn how to handle the problem of being tapped out of blogging inspiration. 

We have all been there, go ahead and write about your experiences.

  • Planted: 1st May
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 40 weeks

Humor in your blog posts

Most bloggers tend to write very serious blog posts. That is good as many people are reading blogs to learn new things. But I feel it can be too serious to only write about serious topics. Once in a while it could be a good idea to mix it up and do something more humorous. What is your view on this? 

  • Planted: 20th Mar
  • Buzzed: 4 times in 1 year 45 weeks

Help Support the Relief Efforts in Japan!

The American Red Cross, Global Living, Save the Children, and the Hands On network are working hard in the relief effort, and are encouraging anybody and everybody to either donate themselves or encourage those who can to do so.  The earthquake and tsunami has destroyed much of the eastern coast of Japan, has taken hundreds of lives, and is threatening the livelihoods of thousands more. Please click on the button in the right sidebar to make a donation,

OR

1. Follow this blog. For each of the first 25 new followers at Literary Legs, I will donate $1.00. 

  • Planted: 14th Mar
  • Buzzed: 3 times in 46 weeks 5 days