An excellent Blogging Book

Darren Rowse of ProBlogger wrote a book (finally) called ProBlogger Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income.  I highly recommend it.  It has great ideas for anyone who wants to blog on a professional level or as an expert in a profession. 

Critique of Another’s Blog

Here’s an email I sent to http://readingjunky.blogspot.com/ in response to a request for any suggestions.  This information is useful for other bloggers as well: 
“Hi!
“You have sure been busy on your blog!  I love it.
“If you want to mess around with formatting, I can give you a couple of suggestions.
“- Since blogs put one post on top of [...]

Categorizing

I talked to someone today about her blog and she wasn’t sure about categorizing or tagging her posts.
I am not sure how it works with search engines, but categorizing and tagging posts make your site much more user friendly and navigable. 
Basically, my opinion is that you can design your blog however you want, just make [...]

Pet Peeve

Why must everyone use the word “powerful” when describing a marketing tool?  Are they trying to make you think of a power tool?  I have read and heard that word more times then I care to count in podcasts and blog posts.  I won’t be mean and point fingers… but seriously people… can we please find [...]

Two Interesting Links

I found some interesting links in my daily blog reading that I thought people would like to check out:
CopyBlogger has a post on eliciting emotional response in readers.
Chris Brogan specifically talks about personal branding. My favorite part of his post is the following quote: “Confidence (not arrogance) is the secret sauce to everything you do [...]