Is that you, or can you and your business do better? If so, then you really ought to get along to the PERA Innovation Park, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire on July 5th.
Leading business speaker and guru, Geoff Burch is with along with Jonathan Gabay.
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Over on my other site, I outlined the tips below. They originally featured on a site run by a charming young lady from Adelaide called Beerli. Her Blog is known as The Talk of the Town.
1. The length of the post is irrelevant. It’s the content and it’s a bit hard to judge sometimes what will take off. Readers often like different and quirky, but they also like to get stuck into some meatier subjects.
2. Pictures help. Readers react to pictures and it’s often the ones which stir a memory, capture the imagination or make them laugh which get the reactions.
3. One day you will go to your blog and you will feel sick. You will not want to blog. It’s like aversion therapy. Some people delete their blogs or blogs are left hanging in space. Know this will happen, that it feels awful but that it will pass.
4. Blog holidays are good. After a week’s break you come back just popping!
5. Get a stat counter which lets you see who visits. It is so exciting to know that someone has come in from Thailand or Greece. It really cheers you up to know there are people in far flung corners who come to read your blog.
6. Get an RSS feed going. It does improve the traffic.
7. Join places like Blog Lines, Blog Explosion and Blogshares. It gets your blog known, it makes you feel like a somebody and it helps you to create the connections which you wish to make.
8. Some of the best bloggers I have come to value suddenly just stop blogging. It can be very upsetting and you wonder what has happened. Expect to feel attached and be ready for the separation anxiety.
9. Don’t be frightened to ask for help if you don’t know how to do something or what something means. The blogosphere is full of kind , helpful people who do not make you feel stupid.
10. Link away! Ask to link your blog, let others link to you. That network can be crucial at times.
I think this is a useful list of do’s for blogging. I also would like to add that Blog templates and the colours used therein are important considerations, particuarly if you are going to be “monetizing” your Blog.
Whilst trawling the Internet in the early hours, I came across this (via Technorati) at the JustGiving Blog
Looks like my way of doing things at “From Margate to the Maasai” is proving OK in the right quarters.
A few days ago, I recommended that serious bloggers pay a visit to Divya Uttam’s blog
Her latest post includes some very useful technical tips to get your Blog motoring. There are three points that, for me, really stand out.
1. How fast does your Blog load?
In the past few weeks, I’ve moved away from Fasthosts, whose servers are not as fast as those provided by I-point Direct. There’s been a marked improvement in access time.
2. Look out for broken or dead links
This is so frustrating isn’t it? The number of times I visit other Blogs and sites and hey presto, what I’m looking for has disappeared. This is nothing more than bad housekeeping and bad manners. You must do a regular audit of your links.
3. What are your most effective articles?
I would add, what are your most read static pages? This Blog has both. Some visit to see what I’m up to at “Latest News”, others want to view my “Presenter Showreel Preview” and some just like this Blog.
Your Blog is your on-line CV or resume. It ought to look professional.
Confused by these terms? I still am and I don’t mind admitting it. Graham Jones has been very helpful in recent times and now I’ve come across this Blog by Divya Uttam. You may find it very useful.
This scared the living daylights out of me when I played it earlier. You think it’s a normal looking Blog, right?
Think again. I think we should call it a vile viral blog.
What do you think?
I’ve already posted about “posts” on this website here. Now, I want to share with you more general tips on website design.
Some of you may have seen the first encarnation of www.jeremyjacobs.com. It was a great website but it had some drawbacks. One of which was a moving image of “yours truly” although it was still successful in driving traffic to my website. Videotile, an innovative corporate video production company located in Lancashire, use moving images in a way which really helps the viewer and the seller.
However, I’m tending to agree with Alan Stevens, who is his most recent e-zine, pointed out the negatives about moving images on some websites. He cited this example where the images do distract from the main message.
