Legal Marketing & PR

7 Top Content Tips for Bloggers ? Part 6: Management

Posted on November 19, 2009
Contributed by: Roger C. Parker Blog marketing success involves blog content management. Management implies that you not only plan your blog posts, but that you manage?or protect?them so that they will be available for later use. Blog content management becomes necessary when you view yourself as a proactive?as opposed to reactive?blogger...

Headway Themes 1.5 is live and ready for download

Posted on November 14, 2009
Contributed by Clay Griffiths, developer of Headway Themes. Well, it has been a long time, but Headway 1.5 is finally ready for the public! Thank you, beta testers :-). You can log into the members’ area and download version 1.5 where you previously downloaded 1...

3 Simple Words That Are Destroying Your Blog

Posted on November 12, 2009
Did you know that your blog is slowly being eaten away by words? Seriously! You may not realize it yet, but your blog could be so much better if you only knew the definition of these three words. Did you want me to tell you what they are? Productivity You’re probably thinking that productivity is a good [...

How a Kitchen Timer Helps My Blog

Posted on November 11, 2009
Thanks to a tweet from one of my tweeps on Twitter, I recently discovered the Pomodoro Technique, a unique system of time management. Pomodoro means tomato in Italian, and the technique is named for the tomato kitchen timer that the creator of this system used when first implementing his system...

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7 Top Content Tips for Bloggers ? Part 5: Synergy

Posted on November 10, 2009
Contributed by: Roger C. Parker John Dunne said it best: No man is an island, entire of itself. Likewise, no blog posts should be islands. Instead, each blog post should be considered part of something greater, something more meaningful. That ?something greater? is your brand- -the way your market thinks about you...

There is no such thing as a shortcut to a successful blog

Posted on November 10, 2009
Over the last week or so I have had the unpleasant experience of watching as a so called “marketing firm” uses some rather awful “SEO tricks.” Why have I been watching this? Mainly because they have sold their bag of snake oil to one of our blogsite design clients...

Headway 1.5 Preview - The Future is Now!

Posted on November 03, 2009
We have been hard at work finishing up all the new features for the soon to be released Headway 1.5 The plan is to have it out to the public in a matter of days. In the mean time, you can view the video below to get an idea of what is coming [...] Related posts:Please Don’t Step On My Jaw, It’s On the Floor After Seeing Headway This is a guest post from Michael Martine, better known...

7 Top Content Tips for Bloggers ? Part 4: Challenge Yourself!

Posted on November 03, 2009
Contributed by: Roger C. Parker I?d like to show you how - - by challenging yourself - - you can create the content you need for weekly blog posts as well as the content you need for your other marketing content and new product development. Necessity, the mother of invention Like so many other important inventions, the following [...

31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt - Final summary and thoughts

Posted on November 02, 2009
We are done for now and I want to thank you all again for getting involved with 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt. Since I know many if not all of you are busy and may have missed a post or two, I wanted to give you all of the [...] Related posts:31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt - Half Way Summary Since we are just over half way through 31-Days to...

Remember Your Blog is About What You’re Doing Offline

Posted on October 31, 2009
Guest post from: Dawud Miracle Blogging is about many things. And one thing that certainly about is connecting with other people and building relationships. It doesn’t matter whether you’re blogging for business, for hobby, for personal interests, a passionate topic or to make money — it’s likely your blogging because you want to communicate your thoughts, ideas, [...

Daily Blogging and Social Networking - You Have to Have a Plan (Day 31-31)

Posted on October 31, 2009
As a wrap up to our 31-Days to Kick Your Bog in the Butt and as promised, I thought I would give you a look at my normal day of blogging. What you need to keep in mind is the fact my business is blogging, G2WebMedia and Headway Themes. So unlike some or [...

Does It Matter that Your Website is Outdated?

Posted on October 30, 2009
Geocities, once king of the ‘build it yourself’ website business, has closed it’s doors. It’s not surprising really, in today’s age of blogs and Twitter, Geocities was obviously a dinosaur just waiting for extinction.  It served it’s purpose, trailblazing the idea of a personal space on the web...

Reading the Numbers to Your Blog (Day 30-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 30, 2009
I know what you are going say, haven’t I already told you not worry to much about the numbers on your blog. And you are right. But I did not tell you to ignore them all together either. For day 30 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, we are [...

4 Ways to Transform Your Blog from Boring to Beautiful

Posted on October 29, 2009
Guest post from: Patrick MacNamara Throughout Grant Griffiths’ series 31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, you’ve learned many ways to take your blog to the next level. But, unless you put action into what you’ve learned, your blog will never reach its true potential...

Use Pillar Content to Build a Solid Foundation For Your Blog (Day 29-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 29, 2009
Once again I want to touch on the subject of content. And for day 29 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, I want to spend some time talking about “Pillar Content.” Before we go too far in today’s post, it will be useful to discuss what exactly is a Pillar [...

Love is the Answer to Kicking Your Blog in the Butt

Posted on October 28, 2009
Guest post from: Christian Russell I want you to close your eyes?oh wait, hold on a second. That won?t work. Read this paragraph, THEN close your eyes?you?ll get the idea! I want you to close your eyes and imagine yourself running the business of your dreams...

Use an ebook or report to get them to subscribe to your newsletter (Day 28-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 28, 2009
Yesterday in 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt we discussed using a newsletter as one more way to connect with your readers. For today, day 28, I want to take what we talked about yesterday a bit further. While we may be publishing a wonderful and informative newsletter, we need to [...

Get a Life (Adding Personality to Your Blog)

Posted on October 27, 2009
Contributed by: Corey Freeman Every new blogger wants to start out with authority, so they use a conversational tone and general overviews and cookie-cutter phrases to produce content that is “unique.” Personally, I just think it’s uniquely boring...

Use a newsletter as one more way to connect with your readers (Day 27-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 27, 2009
Because I am always looking for more ways for us to connect with our readers and at the same time help our blogs along, I felt it was time to discuss one of the best and under used tools by new bloggers. For day 27 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, [...

Membership Site Mastermind is live and you need to consider it

Posted on October 27, 2009
I am a big fan of incorporating a membership site into your blog and we have had success doing membership sites ourselves. In fact, we are working on a new feature for Blog For Profit and it will include a membership element. And Michael Martine and I are working on some new things [...

Top 7 Blog Content Tips ? Part 3: Post categories

Posted on October 26, 2009
Contributed by: Roger C. Parker In the first two parts of this series, I?ve discussed the importance of creating a content plan for your blog and selecting the days your weekly blog posts will appear. Now, I?d like to discuss the importance of choosing categories of information for your weekly blog posts...

Don’t overlook the power of a FAQ page on your blog (Day 26-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 26, 2009
Day 26 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt and it seems we are right back to where we are focusing on our contact with our readers. As you will remember from day 11 where we discussed “Must have Pages on your blog”, I mentioned the FAQ page really just in passing...

Blogging Doesn’t Just Get you Clients, It Helps Keep Them!

Posted on October 25, 2009
Guest post from: Jennifer Laviano There is no way to describe how much blogging has changed the way I practice law. When I first met Grant, who did an amazing job creating my site Special Ed Justice, he gave me a number of “tips.” I remember him telling me that, within a short period [...

Connect with other bloggers and build your community (Day 25-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 25, 2009
For day 25 of our 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt series I want to spend our time focusing on how we can connect and interact with other bloggers. While we have talked about linking to a competitor already. I want to take connecting to other bloggers in your niche a bit [...

Using social networking to build your blog’s community (Day 24-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 24, 2009
One of the huge abilities you have as a blogger today which those of us who started blogging 4 or 5 years ago did not have is the power of social networking. When I talk about social networking and using it to build my own blog’s community, I am talking about services like twitter [...

Set yourself up to succeed not fail with your blog (Day 23-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 23, 2009
Today is day 23 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt. As we enter into the final stretch I thought it would be important to hit on a topic I debated on where to put in the series. After much thought and looking at the overall schedule, I decided here was [...

How better writing boosts your blog’s image (5 writing tips)

Posted on October 23, 2009
Guest post from: Laura Helen Walsh You can’t judge a book by its cover, right? Not exactly. Your customers judge you all the time by your words. Like it or not, right or wrong, your words are your reputation. But, you know this already. When talking to a customer, you always put your best foot forward...

Promote your site locally (Day 22-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 22, 2009
Today’s lesson and task is a fairly short one for day 22 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt. However, if you are a business blogger or service firm, this one can really make a difference and not only kick your blog up a notch. Doing this task can also put [...

Avoid Grammar Bloopers That Make Readers Want to Kick Your Blog?s Butt

Posted on October 21, 2009
Guest post from: Lynne J. DeVenny Imagine this scenario. You have written the best blog post of your life. You are ?all that AND a bag of chips.? You?ve hooked your reader, who is not only ready to subscribe to your blog, re-tweet your post to his 3,657 followers and possibly even propose to [...

What should you be doing if your blog is not getting noticed (Day 21-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 21, 2009
Here we are on day 21 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt and I thought it might be a good time to cover an area I get questions on almost daily. Either via email, phone and even twitter. These questions are sometimes out of frustration, I know...

Top 7 Blog Content Tips ? Part 2: Schedules & Deadlines

Posted on October 20, 2009
Contributed by: Roger C. Parker The starting point for a successful blog content plan is to create a realistic blogging schedule, one that identifies schedules, deadlines, and content categories. This involves 4 steps: Identify the minimum number of blog posts each week...

Don’t just give them a default 404 page (Day 20-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 20, 2009
For day 20 of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, I want to spend some more time on your reader’s experience on your blog. And just one more way to get them to dig deeper and keep them on our blog. How many times have you put in the wrong information [...

Set up Alerts and automatic searches to monitor things (Day 19-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 19, 2009
If you are a business of any type and if you are blogging, you have to watch and monitor what is happening online. Especially about you, your business, your brand and your niche. Today is day 19 in our 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt and today we are going to [...

How a Legal “Blawg” Kicks Butt

Posted on October 18, 2009
When I started Construction Law Musings back in December of 2008, I did so on a whim. I had heard that a blog was a good way to get ideas out there and that I could get some benefit, so I dove right in and charged ahead. Before I started the blog, I had profiles in what I [...

Don’t be so focused on numbers you forget your readers (Day 18-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 18, 2009
Let me start off today’s edition of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt with a brief apology just in case I get to complaining a little too much. For Day-18, I want you to focus not on “the numbers” but on your readers. Too many bloggers get so caught up on [...

31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt - Half Way Summary

Posted on October 17, 2009
Since we are just over half way through 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, I wanted to give you a summary and link to all of the post so far. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should Be a proactive blogger, not a stick in the mud Find the conversations in your niche or target [...

Using internal linking to keep your readers longer (Day 17-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 17, 2009
As we continue on with the second half of 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, we are on Day-17 and I want to hit on another way to not only do you some good. But, also provide you with a way to get your readers to once again dig deeper into your [...

Top 7 Blog Content Tips ? Part 1: Proactive

Posted on October 16, 2009
Contributed by: Roger C. Parker Do you have a content plan for your blog? Successful business owners recognize the important of a blog content plan. Without a plan–one that proactively identifies what you?re going to blog about and when–you?re far less likely to profit from your blog or enjoy the blogging experience...

Content is not enough - you have to promote it (Day 16-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 16, 2009
If there is one key to the survival of a blog it has to be the content. Without it, there really is no blog. However, you can write all the best content you can, and if you don’t get traffic, who become visitors, who then become regular readers, your blog is going to [...

6 Quick Tips to Kick Your Blog in the Butt

Posted on October 15, 2009
By Frank Barry Blog: NetWits Think Tank Twitter: http://twitter.com/franswaa Grant shared some thoughts on his blog recently that inspired this post: ?If there is one pattern I hate to see it is the new blogger who starts off with a huge bang and all kinds of enthusiasm and it drops off...

Don’t overlook the benefits of guest posting (Day 15-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 15, 2009
Hard to believe, but we are approaching the half way point in 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt. And it has been a lot of fun on this end. Hope you are getting some good stuff so far to kick start your blog or get a new one off to a [...] Related posts:Unleash the Power of Guest Posting Alone In An Empty Room? What if you threw...

3 Tips for the Small Business Blogger

Posted on October 14, 2009
Guest Post from Deb Brown: You know, anyone can blog. Just go to Blogspot, and create a blog. Put in a few pictures and write something. Doesn’t mean it’s going to get read though. It also doesn’t mean you’re going to stick with it and like it...

Do your readers a favor, link to a competitor (Day 14-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 14, 2009
Oh my god! Did I really just say you should link to a competitor? As we continue with our 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, it is time to discuss something which causes many to think I am completely crazy. Since our focus here at Blog For Profit is on how to use [...

Using Video to Kick Your Blog in the Butt

Posted on October 13, 2009
Guest Post by Chris Cree: I don’t know who it was that said variety is the spice of life but there sure is some truth to that statement. Mixing things up with a little variety can really help kick your blog in the butt. Adding video is a great way to do that...

Create a Theme Page to Push Your Readers Deeper (Day 13-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 13, 2009
For day 13 of 31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt I wanted to revisit some of the other techniques we can use to increase the usability of our blogs for our readers. Another way to enhance the readers experience and pushing them deeper into our blogs...

7 Ways a VA Can Help Kick Your Blog in the Butt

Posted on October 12, 2009
If you’re working your way through the 31 days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt you’re getting some great tips to take your blog to the next level. I know I’m learning alot and will be implementing the ideas with my own blog. If you haven’t signed up yet, it’s not too [...

5 Ways to Push Past the Six Month Blogging Slog

Posted on October 12, 2009
Guest Post: Blogging is difficult. Any blogger who says otherwise either has friends in high places, isn?t trying to make a living with their work, or probably isn?t being terribly honest. Because of this inherent difficulty, many bloggers abandon their blogs within the first six months...

Make it easy for your readers to subscribe to your blog (Day 12-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 12, 2009
The other day someone sent me a link to a blog they thought I should take a look at. What I found was not a blog, but a poor excuse at something I am not sure what it was. I tried to give them the benefit of a doubt. There were some [...] Related posts:Using internal linking to keep your readers longer (Day 17-31 Kick Butt) As we continue on with the second half of 31-Days...

Blogworld & New Media Expo 2009

Posted on October 11, 2009
I am excited to finally have the chance to travel this week out to Las Vegas for Blogworld Expo 2009. Over the last 3 years I have put this huge event on my calendar with full intentions of going. Not only is there an amazing list of sessions to attend...

Must have Pages on your blog (Day 11-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 11, 2009
Today was are going to spend some time considering what Pages you should be looking at for your blog. One of the points I hope I am re-enforcing on 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt is that you need to alway be considering how your blog and your readers/community can interact...

A Quick And Easy Tip To Increase Visitors To Your Blog

Posted on October 10, 2009
Guest Post: Everyone knows that different people learn in different ways. Some people are visual learners while others are auditory learners, for example. As a blogger, you need to craft and present your posts in a way that appeals to as many different types of learners as possible...

Start using an editorial calendar and plan your blogging (Day 10-31 Kick Butt)

Posted on October 10, 2009
Yesterday in 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt, we discussed ways to avoid writers block. While we spent time looking at our previous post, considering some of the comments and questions from our readers and clients. What we were also doing was coming up with ideas for blog post...

As a business, should you be online?

Posted on September 29, 2009
On October 1st, we start our new series here on Blog For Profit called 31-Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt. While a lot of what we are going to talk about is geared to the blogger who just needs help in getting their blog going. All of what we are going [...

How Personal Should Your Professional Blog Be?

Posted on September 22, 2009
I came to the world of business blogging with years of personal blogging experience. Did that mean I already knew what to do in regard to a business blog?  Was it as simple as transferring what I was already doing for my personal life to my business? Absolutely not...

News about updates for Headway Themes #headwaywp

Posted on September 17, 2009
There have been some questions about whether Headway will be getting an update soon. To get some answers to some of your questions, visit the Headway Themes Blog and read Will there be updates for Headway Themes? #headwaywp [...] Related posts:Please Don’t Step On My Jaw, It’s On the Floor After Seeing Headway This is a guest post from Michael Martine, better known...

31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt ?? Sign Up Here

Posted on September 15, 2009
During the month of September I have been running what I like to call a twitter series. Each day of the month so far, I have been tweeting a new blogging tip on twitter and tagging it “30 days to kick your blog in the butt”. It has been a fun series to [...

12 Ways to Rock Your Business or Firm?s Marketing Plan with a Blog -Revisited

Posted on September 13, 2009
Post was first published on January 23rd, 2009. One of the bloggers I follow and read daily is John Haydon who has a great blog called Corporate Dollar. John writes about using social media marketing for small non-profits. However, what I have found is that almost everything he writes can be applied [...

12 Ways a Blog Can Benefit Your Business

Posted on September 11, 2009
And do it better and cheaper than any Yellow Pages? ad or “static” Web site. Thats right, blogging is the best marketing tool you can and should be using to drive business to your business. If you don’t have a blog, please take notice of this list and carefully consider if you should [...

How To Become An ?Expert? In Your Niche In 6 Months

Posted on September 10, 2009
Guest post from Adrianos M. Facchetti The thought of becoming an ?expert? in 6 months may seem impossible to you. But I did it and I?m going to show you how. But first let me share my story with you a bit because I think it?s instructive. It all started in March of 2008...

Wordpress Wisdom; What You Can Learn From Robert Scoble’s Hacking

Posted on September 09, 2009
Here at Blog For Profit you’ve been encouraged to blog. You’ve been shown how to build and promote your blog. And its been stressed that you want quality content in your blog. But did you know that you need to take precautions to protect that content? A recent security hole in Wordpress caught well known blogger [...

I Care about teenager consumers and so should you

Posted on September 03, 2009
This is a guest post from Ainslie Hunter who publishes a great blog called Study Skill Mentor where she gives support and ideas to help parents and students with home organization, homework, assignments and study revision. I love the niche she is blogging about and her banner is awesome too...

Why I Don’t Care if Teens Aren’t Using Twitter (and Why You Shouldn’t Care, Either)

Posted on September 01, 2009
Guest post from Michael Martine who publishes one of the top blogs on blogging and social media, Remarkablogger. You can also follow Michael on twitter at @remarkablogger. So the news is out that teens aren’t using Twitter all that much. Gasp. Oh, no...

Get a fully-functional, business-ready website and/or blog, for $350

Posted on August 29, 2009
If you think that sounds too good to be true, it’s not. That is what my friend Dawud Miracle is offering over at his newly launched service The Website Habitat. Dawud doesn’t make this offer every day of the week. In fact, it is a very special special, celebrating the birth of their 4th [...

RSS or Email, that is the question

Posted on August 25, 2009
How we subscribe to the blogs we read has been an ongoing discussion here and even on twitter lately. So, to help my own brain cramp on the subject, I decided to ask you all. What or how do you subscribe to the blogs you read? I for one do not buy [...

Blogging will change your life - Seth Godin & Tom Peters on blogging

Posted on August 23, 2009
When I first starting looking at what blogging was all about, someone told me blogging would change my life. That was sometime in 2004. I launched my first blog in February 2005 and have not regretted it one bit. One thing I have been preaching to anyone who would listen to me [...

How To Use Social Networking To Boost Your Video Content

Posted on August 22, 2009
Video blogging is something we all should be doing, yours truly included. If I had to name one of the top experts in using video on a blog, Gerry Oginski would be my go to guy. In fact Gerry is a great example of how a professional service provider can use video to [...

A Vision Of The Future [Parody Video]

Posted on August 19, 2009
Timing really is everything and especially true after an email I received today about my latest newsletter. This morning I received a notice of a new follower on twitter. And like I do with every new follower, I visited their twitter page and because they looked really interesting, I visited their blog...

Twitter vs. Facebook

Posted on August 18, 2009
Guest post from Jason Wietholter: Social Media is an institution now in the internet marketing sector. It’s been expected for years that every company or respectable service professional have their own website, but now, Twitter & Facebook has overtaken that...

Online Reputation Management, Defamation Law, and SEO

Posted on August 17, 2009
Give us 2 minutes and we’ll force top experts on Reputation Management, Defamation Law, and SEO to reveal their best tips, tricks, and secrets on any subject YOU choose below. All you have to do is fill-out the survey. Then check back-in the next couple of weeks to get the information you requested...

Compiling a Post Series on your Blog

Posted on August 13, 2009
If there is one thing I try to do it is to practice what I preach. How many times have I written that one of the best sources for your post ideas are the questions you get from clients. I had one of those questions this morning from one of our new bloggers [...

Shutting off comments on the Pages in a Headway WordPress Blog

Posted on August 11, 2009
I wanted to do a quick screencast showing you how you can shut off the comments on the Pages in your Headway blog. Many of you have set up tabs with Pages and I have also noticed you still have comments showing up. Or you are closing the comments on those Pages...

Twitter is down, twitter is down…

Posted on August 06, 2009
It is official, twitter has become one of my must have communication tools. And I was reluctant to admit this until this morning since it has been down most of the morning. What has been amazing is how disconnected I have been this morning. Two things happened...

Why I Switched My WordPress Theme From Thesis to Headway (Reasons 1, 2 and 3 of 5)

Posted on August 02, 2009
Why I switched my WordPress theme from Thesis to Headway (Reason number 1of 5) from John Haydon Click To Play Why I switched my WordPress theme From Thesis to Headway (Reason number 2 and 3 of 5) from John Haydon Click To Play [...

Please Don’t Step On My Jaw, It’s On the Floor After Seeing Headway

Posted on August 01, 2009
This is a guest post from Michael Martine, better known as Remarkablogger. Michael gives us an idea of what he thinks of Headway and what it means for the WordPress community. Headway is, hands down, the best premium WordPress theme I’ve ever seen (yes, I daresay it’s even better than Thesis–and I do not make [...

Less then 24 Hours to Making Headway With Your Blog or Blogsite

Posted on July 30, 2009
We have been working so hard on the designing, building and testing of Headway Themes, I almost started to think the day would never get here. As indicated by the counter, we are less then 24 hours to the release and needless to say, Clay and I are excited and a bit overwhelmed...

Blogging Gets You Noticed, Yes it does…

Posted on July 27, 2009
One of the biggest satisfactions I get is when clients of G2WebMedia get noticed for their efforts with their blogs. Recently, one of our newer clients, Jennifer Laviano was featured on the ABA’s website as “This week’s featured blawg...

Yes, Video Blogging Does Work For Lawyers

Posted on July 23, 2009
This is a great guest video post from the Video Lawyer, Gerry Oginski.  If you don’t follow Gerry’s blog which he uses to market his Medical Malpractice Law Practice, you should be.  Gerry is a great example of how video can be used right to market your professional service firm and provide a lot of good [...

Is it Time to Incorporate Video into Your Blog?

Posted on July 22, 2009
Guest post from Melissa Pierce You’ve probably heard that video blogging or “vlogging” is next new frontier in blogging. Recent statistics show that two thirds of the U.S. Internet audience view online video, and of those viewers the average time spent viewing video was 356 minutes a month and rising...

New Premium WordPress Theme Coming Soon - Headway

Posted on July 17, 2009
I know some of you have seen the conversation on twitter about something called Headway and I know you have seen me talk about it. Some of you have even received a private tour too. Headway is a new product we will be introducing sometime in the next week or so...

The Secret to Moving Up in the Search Engines

Posted on July 15, 2009
If there is one secret I can share with you all on how to use your blog’s stats to get traffic it is this. Look at the search terms people are using to find your blog. These are the search terms actual HUMANS are using to find you. Search terms somebody is typing into [...

GTD For Legal: Capturing and Transforming ?Stuff? into Next Action Items

Posted on July 15, 2009
In order to provide a wide range of information to our wide ranging audience, I like to from time to time post different information and not just on blogging. As a way to provide information I was very pleased that Larry Port from Rocket Matter agreed to provide the follow guest post...

From Problogger “Why Did Your Last Blog Post Fail? 13 Questions to Ask”

Posted on July 13, 2009
Darren over at ProBlogger had a great post today giving us 13 things to consider if and when one of our blog post fails to do what we expect it to do. Here are the questions Darren suggest you ask yourself about the post to help you learn why it might have failed and [...

Using Blog Tags to Benefit Your Readers and Your SEO

Posted on July 08, 2009
Guest post by Amy Derby: There are probably as many ways to tag a blog post as there are to blog in general, but the following is based on what works best for me and for my clients using Wordpress. What are blog tags, and what are they good for? Tags in blog posts are short labels that [...

Retweeting on the rise, linking and commenting is declining and we are all just too lazy

Posted on July 06, 2009
Recently Louis Gray had a post on his blog called As Retweeting Rises, Linking Continues to Decline. The post went live on July 4th and I let it set in my open tabs on my browser all weekend. I was really trying to decide how I felt about the post and whether [...

Blog For Profit Now Has Its Own Personalized Facebook Page

Posted on July 06, 2009
That’s right, Blog For Profit has its own personalized Facebook page. You can find it here. Be watching for some special things to be coming to the BFP Page. Also, if you are not a fan, you need to be. [...] Related posts:Blog For Profit Facebook Group Don’t forget to join the Blog For Profit FaceBook Group...

30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints ?? Final list of all the post

Posted on July 05, 2009
Below you will find a link to each one of the post in our series, 30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints. We hope you enjoyed it and found at least some of the tips and hints useful. 30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints Day 1 ?? Open your own twitter account Day 2 ?? Use your [...

How One Estate Planning Attorney Used Blogging and Social Media to Get Noticed

Posted on July 03, 2009
This is a guest post from California Estate Planning attorney Jennifer N. Sawday. Jennifer’s blog can be found at California Estate Planning Blog where she blogs about “matters involving estate planning in California.” And you can follow Jennifer on twitter at @JenSawday...

Interact, engage and build… ?? Day 30 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on July 03, 2009
Well, this is it. Day 30 of twitter tips and hints and we come to the end of the post series. For today’s tip and hint, I am going to use one of my favorite tweets I see in my twitter stream daily. View unmarketing’s tweet While I would like to take full [...

There Are No Rules, But… ?? Day 29 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on July 02, 2009
It is true and even with all the suggestions you hear on how to use twitter, there are no set in stone rules. What you do need to do however is establish some goals or perhaps what you want to accomplish with twitter. When you first start looking at using twitter as a [...

Do Not Auto-Follow New Followers on Twitter ?? Day 28 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on July 01, 2009
I know this is not something most of those who have been on twitter for a while would do. Right? However, I have seen twitter newbies do this and it is really not the way to manage your followers on twitter. There is really no good reason to use the auto-follow feature [...

Twitter for Dummies: Buy the Book ?? Day 27 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 30, 2009
I am going to keep this one very short. If you want to get some great information from someone who knows what they are talking about. Go right now to this link and buy Twitter For Dummies. And yes that is my affiliate link to Amazon and I will make a huge [...

Question for Tomorrows Edition of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 30, 2009
Exclusive for subscribers! Download Blogging Tips To Help You Blog Copyright © 2009 Blog For Profit. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in [...] Related posts:Using twitter as your RSS feeder — Day 13 of Twitter Tips and Hints Since I started to use twitter more and more, I...

Using Hashtags with Twitter ?? Day 25 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 29, 2009
For those of you who have been on twitter for a while, you most likely have noticed and know what a hashtag is. For those of you new to twitter, you may be saying, good god not another twitter term I need to know about. Actually, hashtags can be a great tool and [...

Saying Blogging is Dead is Such Complete BS

Posted on June 29, 2009
I am always lost for a reason some of those who are considered the “big boys” need to make the statement every few months that blogging is dead. Or that they are leaving blogging behind for greener pastures. Quite frankly, I think it is complete bullshit...

How to Get Followers and Make Friends on Twitter ?? Day 24 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 28, 2009
Followers and Friends are truly what make twitter so much fun and worth it. And if you are new to twitter, you are most likely wondering how the heck do I go about getting new followers. There are sites and applications popping up every single day hyping the fact they can get you [...

Unleash the Power of Guest Posting

Posted on June 28, 2009
Alone In An Empty Room? What if you threw a party and no one came? That’s what a lot of professionals feel like when they start blogging. They post, and post, and post, but no one knows about their niche blog and no one ever finds it. It’s like standing in the middle of an empty room, [...

I Dare You To Ask Your Clients or Customers To Follow You On Twiter ?? Day 23 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 27, 2009
One of the dumbest statements I hear business and/or professional services firms say is that they don’t want their clients or customers following them on twitter. Huh!?! Do you communicate with your clients and/or customers when they come into your business or offices? Do you talk to them when you see them [...

Take a Poll on Twitter ?? Day 22 of Twitter Tips and HInts

Posted on June 25, 2009
I have mentioned many times about the fact twitter is a great research tool. It is a great question and answer tool too. I get some of my best input from twitter when I simply ask a question of those who are following me. Recently, I took the research and question and answer technique [...

Using a Twitter Desktop Client to Organize your Twitter Experience ?? Day 21 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 24, 2009
It has been a long time since I have not used a twitter client to handle my twitter use. In fact, I rarely go to my own twitter page to do anything on twitter. For the most part, the twitter client I have been using the last few months is TweetDeck. And now that [...

Don’t Worry About Unfollows ?? Day 21 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 23, 2009
It has happened to all of us. We post some good tweets, at least we think they are. Or we send some good links to twitter. And what happens, we get a few unfollows. Even worse, you use one of those stupid twitter tools to see who has unfollowed you and it [...

Need a Retweet? Ask for them ?? Day 20 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 22, 2009
How many times have you written that killer blog post? However many times have you posted that killer tweet on twitter? And how many times have you wished someone would retweet one or both of them? I know most of you can answer yes to all three of those questions...

Twitter and what it means to RSS ?? Day 19 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 21, 2009
As we discussed just the other day, like many, I now use twitter as one of my main RSS feeds. And I know, some of you may be asking why. And this is one of the reasons why. Twitter — social media — trusted recommendation of a link — carries more weight than just [...

You Have to Participate if You Want To Get Benefits From Twitter ?? Day 18 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 20, 2009
If you are going to be on twitter, be on twitter. Jump in and participate in the conversations going on around you. Listen to the conversations and don’t be afraid to add you own take on what is being said. For the most part, that is why most of us are on twitter...

Twitter as a Research and Development Tool - Day 17 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 19, 2009
Over the last several months if there is one thing I have found twitter to be great for it is research and development. It is really amazing how you can ask a question on twitter and within a matter of only a few minutes you will have a wide range of answers and input...

Blogging will not foster clients, is a sinkhole of time and will go stale

Posted on June 19, 2009
First of all, I do have a dog in this race as we design blogsites for lawyers. Second, I do coaching and consulting with clients on blogging. What you see below is a response I posted on an email listserv called Solo Lawyer Marketing. It is a great listserv where lawyers and marketing professionals freely [...

Don’t Protect Your Updates ? Day 16 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 18, 2009
I have never been able to come up with a good idea why anyone would want to protect their updates on twitter. In fact, I equate this to the same BS as requiring me to register before I can leave a comment on a blog. It would actually be fun to do a survey to [...

Name it and Domain it ?? The advantages of using keywords in your domain name

Posted on June 17, 2009
When we talk to our clients about SEO, especially naming their blogs and getting a domain, I tell them one key item. “Name it and domain it” as close to each other as you can. What do I mean by this? I like to see a blog for a professional service firm [...

How To Decide Who To Follow On Twitter ?? Day 15 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 17, 2009
If there is one question I get and I know others get about twitter it is, “How do I decide who to follow on twitter?” For me, I usually look at a few key points on the person that I am looking at and trying to decide whether to follow them back or not...

Using Twitter Search to Follow a Search Term You Are Interested In ?? Day 14 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 16, 2009
Not only is twitter a great communication tool. And a great way to network with other like minded people. Twitter is also a great search tool. Using twitter search, you can actually search for any search term that might be discussed on twitter at any given moment...

Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog

Posted on June 15, 2009
Problogger had a great post just this morning called 13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog and I have to say, Darren hit it on the head on this one. Here are the 13 Tips for Marketing Your Business With Your Blog: Listen First, Blog Later Know what you want to achieve Be Useful Be Personal [...

Using twitter as your RSS feeder — Day 13 of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 15, 2009
Since I started to use twitter more and more, I have found I am actually using it more for my RSS feeder than my actual feeder. That may seem strange. However, the way I organize those I follow on twitter, I can actually make a group of those on twitter who’s blog I [...

Send your new blog post to twitter - Day 12 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 12, 2009
If you are blogging and you are on twitter, you have a great opportunity to provide information to your followers and get your blog post to a large number of possible readers. I do this each time I post to this blog. I use EasyTweets to send my blog post to twitter and it [...

Your chance to give back to those on twitter - 30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 11, 2009
As you may have noticed, we are on Day 10 of our Twitter Tips and Hints. In addition to today’s tips and hints, I wanted to give all of you a chance to add your own favorite twitter tip and/or hint to the list. If enough of you provide your own, I will [...

Don’t ask me to click your junk - Day 11 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 11, 2009
I know what you are thinking, twitter should not have rules and anyone that suggest a rule is a complete jerk. And you are right. But, how many times have you followed someone you thought looked interesting and shortly after you follow, you get a direct message with a link to something...

Retweet and spread the wealth - Day 10 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 10, 2009
If there is one thing which you can do on twitter that will not only help you, retweeting will also help those you follow and read on twitter. The statement below is without a doubt one of the best when it comes to explaining how important retweeting is...

Don’t follow everyone just because they follow you - Day 9 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 09, 2009
Do not feel like you have to follow everyone who follows you and don’t follow everyone. You have limited time and there is really no way to keep up with it all. To follow or not to follow everyone who follows you is actually one of those topics and opinions that goes both ways...

Link your blog to your twitter profile - Day 8 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 08, 2009
This is one tip and hint I almost did not include. However, there are so many new tweeters out there not taking advantage of this, I thought we better. If you will remember a couple of the previous post in this series, you will recall these: Give a good profile and provide a URL Don’t [...

Blogging Survey - We need your help!

Posted on June 08, 2009
We are in the process of gathering some information from our readers and newsletter subscribers. And we need your help. What you will find when you click on our Survey are a few questions which will help us determine how we can better serve our readers...

Don’t tweet just to post something - Day 7 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 07, 2009
Adding to the conversation on twitter should be your goal if you are commenting on a particular twitter thread that is going on. Tweeting for the sake of tweeting is a lot like leaving one of those stupid comments some leave on our blogs. You know the ones I am talking about...

Building a Successful Blog — Part 15 — Where to find ideas for your blog post

Posted on June 06, 2009
As we continue with our ongoing series, Building a Successful Blog, posting to our blogs has been the theme for the last few episodes. Building a Successful Blog — Part 12 — Posting to your Blog Part 1 Building a Successful Blog — Part 13 — Posting to your Blog Part 2 Building a Successful Blog [...

Give a good profile and provide a URL - Day 6 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 06, 2009
Building your community is one of the great things about twitter. And, quite frankly it is also what makes twitter such a great business developing tool. However, there are ways you can kill your ability to build your community on twitter from the very first day you start using it...

Twitter is for business - Day 5 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 05, 2009
There has and always will be a debate as to whether twitter is an effective business development tool for anyone using it. Recently one of the individuals I follow on twitter had a great twitter thread on the subject. And, using a twitter tool I am going to talk about in the next few [...

Watch your follower to following ratio - Day 4 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 04, 2009
While it is true, there are no rules on twitter. I would however argue there are some good practices you should consider when you are on twitter. The tip for today is one of those good practices you need to adopt if you hope to have a successful twitter experience in my opinion...

Don’t use the default avatar on twitter - Day 3 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 03, 2009
How many times have you received an alert that someone has just followed you on twitter. I check out each and every one of them every single day. And if there is one thing which really gets me it is when someone uses the default twitter avatar pictured in the image below...

Use your real name as your twitter ID - Day 2 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 02, 2009
Yesterday we started off with some brief instructions on opening your own twitter account. I mentioned that I feel you are better off using your real name as your twitter “Username”. And I have my reasons. Use your real name What you will find once you have been on twitter for a while is that you [...

Open your own twitter account - Day 1 Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on June 01, 2009
What better way to start off a month long series on Twitter Tips and Hints then to do a quick run down on how to open a twitter account. It is really very easy to do. First of all you need to go to twitter’s home page. There you will be given [...

30 Days of Twitter Tips and Hints

Posted on May 31, 2009
You really would have to live in a cave in some remote country somewhere to not know about twitter. Like many of the people I talk to daily, I have found twitter to be one of those tools I would not want to be without. Twitter has become one of my top traffic [...

Get your copy of Problogger’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog WorkBook

Posted on May 29, 2009
Regular readers of Blog For Profit know how much I appreciate the writings of Darren Rowse at Problogger. Problogger is one of those blogs you just have to read. And, just in case you want to know, I read it daily. Sometimes more then once a day. I have to credit Darren [...

Summer Subscription Drive

Posted on May 26, 2009
I thought since the school year is over here in my part of the woods and we are fast approaching summer, we would run a subscription drive here at Blog For Profit. If you are not subscribed to Blog For Profit than you are not receiving our free updates...

ProBlogger Book is Now Available on Kindle

Posted on May 25, 2009
If there is one book I recommend the most to new bloggers it is Darren Rowse’s ProBlogger Book. The good news it is now available for the Kindle if you have been wanting to get a copy for the Kindle. What better way to take this great blogging resource with you where ever [...

Blog For Profit is Now Available on Kindle

Posted on May 23, 2009
Not quite sure yet what, if any benefit there will be to having Blog For Profit on the Amazon Kindle Store. However, I figured it could not hurt to have it on one of the top searched sites in the world. If any of you subscribe via Kindle, let me know how it [...

Building a Successful Blog — Part 14 — Creating Effective Post

Posted on May 22, 2009
I seem to be on a roll the last few days with post for this blog. And it might have something to do with the topic we have been covering lately, posting and now content. Previously in this series we had these two post: Building a Successful Blog — Part 12 — Posting to your [...

Building a Successful Blog — Part 13 — Posting to your Blog Part 2

Posted on May 21, 2009
In Building a Successful Blog — Part 12, we discussed posting to your blog and getting organized. I want to continue a bit further along this path in this episode and spend some time discussing one of the blogging tools which has helped me. At least it has helped when I use it [...

How to Use Twitter as a Law Firm - A follow up

Posted on May 20, 2009
As promised and as a follow up to yesterday’s post, How Not to Use Twitter as a Law Firm - Brought to you by @mmalaw I am giving you the how to use twitter as a law firm. To illustrate what I mean, lets take the same bullet points we talked about yesterday and [...

How Not to Use Twitter as a Law Firm - Brought to you by @mmalaw

Posted on May 19, 2009
Up until this morning I have pretty much kept my mouth shut on how badly some lawyers and law firms are using twitter. This morning I received an email from a friend who told me, “you have to do a post on how bad this firm is using twitter.” And what was amazing, it [...

Dawn Elaine Bowie - Going Solo

Posted on January 24, 2008
Dawn Elaine Bowie was just recently featured on Build a Solo Practice, LLC in a post titled, Going Solo; Confessions and Inspirations - Dawn Elaine Bowie. Attorney Bowie is a solo practitioner in Rockville, Maryland who was a non-trad law student, a mother with three children...

Blog design matters

Posted on January 23, 2008
Kevin O’Keefe recently had a great post which provided the results of a recent question and answer done by David Peralty, Head of Marketing at Splashpress Media, when they asks readers at The Blog Herald if it’s important to have a powerful, beautiful or striking blog design when presenting what he describes as the ?whole [...

Blog Your Passion

Posted on December 10, 2007
Lorelle on Wordpress had a post today called How do you become a passionate blogger? Blog your passion. This is actually something I tell people whenever I visit with them about blogging. If you are not passionate about the topic you are blogging about, it will never work...

Website or Blog?

Posted on October 31, 2007
Kevin O?Keefe had a great blog today called, 6 reasons large law firm blogs beat law firm websites with RSS feeds. While I agree with Kevin?s premise. I think it applies to small firm and solos just as well. And from my own experience, I know a blog will beat a Web site when it comes [...

What not to Put on Your Blog

Posted on October 24, 2007
Chuck Newton has a great post today called ?Avoid Staid Old Images?. He has a list of items to avoid. Gavels Eagles Courtrooms Courthouse Steps The Scales O? Justice Piles of Law Books Nautical Themed Stuff (unless you?re an admiralty lawyer) Compasses Groups of Middle-Aged White Lawyers in Suits I could not agree more...

Home Office Lawyer Featured Blawg

Posted on October 20, 2007
My little blog Home Office Lawyer is the featured blog this week on the ABA’s Blawg Directory. I am honored and humbled. When I started the Home Office Lawyer in March of 2005, I really never expected it to get the attention it has. I have enjoyed publishing it more than words can describe...

Get your free blog design today - call reminder

Posted on October 12, 2007
Remember today is the big Pre-Launch party for Blawg for Profit.  Be on the call for some helpful information on blogging to attract clients and for the contest winners.  Thanks for everyone that entered the contest.  Hope to see you on the call. The details for accessing the call are in the post immediately below...

Call details + How to get Free custom blog!

Posted on October 08, 2007
Grant and I are grateful for the response we’ve received from our announcement about the release of Blawg for Profit.  As most of you know, it is a complete course on how to launch and run your own profitable blog. But, we will also be offering custom Wordpress blogs, and an ongoing members only site with [...

Contest - Get a FREE copy of the Blawg for Profit course

Posted on October 05, 2007
As most of our readers know, Grant and I are launching our Blawg for Profit program Monday, October 15, 2007. Blawg for Profit is the culmination of six months work that Grant and I have put in together trying to create a product that helps solo and small firm lawyer obtain the benefits of [...

What?s the Purpose of Your Blog?

Posted on October 05, 2007
And can you accomplish that purpose by using ghost writers? My position is that you can’t. And Allison Shields of Legal Ease Blog has ask a question to keep the conversation going in her post titled, As a Lawyer - Blogger, What?s the Purpose of Your Blog? I have talked about ghost writers in a previous [...

Why do You Blog?

Posted on October 02, 2007
Great post today over at Tame the Web: Libraries and Technology called, Why do you Blog? Michael Stephens gives us a peek at his dissertation in his post. He provides just a bit of an answer to those who have been asking about his dissertation. And in the process gives us a great indication of why [...

Good Content AND Get People to Talk About You

Posted on September 29, 2007
There has been a conversation going on lately on a Listserv I am on. It centers around ghost writing for a blog. The conversation started out with someone asking if they should have a ghost writer for their blog. I chimed in as I often do and said no...