Legal Marketing & PR

The Religion of Social Media?Which of the Faithful are You?

Posted on March 03, 2010
Blogs and social media have infiltrated our lives. For many of us, it?s our main method of communication with and keeping track of friends, for others it?s purely professional.  And for yet others, blogging and social media is nothing less than a religious experience...

Headway customer Tom Drake and his Canadian Finance Blog

Posted on March 02, 2010
Tom Drake is not only a pretty darn good blogger from Canada. He is also a Headway customer. What is exciting for us is to see that Tom’s blog, Canadian Finance Blog is a finalist for the Best Canadian Personal Finance Blog. Tom’s blog is in the category of Best Designed Personal Finance Blogs [...

3 Deadly Ninja Comment Tricks for Maximum Blog Traffic

Posted on March 01, 2010
Yes, we're often genuinely moved to comment on other blogs. Yes, we have real relationships with fellow bloggers in our niche. But let's not pretend we don't want traffic from our comments on other blogs. We most certainly do. And since we know we want traffic from our comments, then let's get as much as we can, yes? I've developed some effective blog commenting strategies and tactics over the years which I will reveal to you.

Social MEdia is all about me

Posted on February 27, 2010
When I originally started to think about this post, the title above was not the one I had. I first typed in the title, “There is no me in Social MEdia.” The problem was I started to draft this post in my mind over two weeks ago and it has evolved just a [...

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Do Your Blog Readers Know Who You Are?

Posted on February 26, 2010
Although it may seem like an obvious question, do your blog readers know who you are? Do they know what you do, how you do it, and how to ask you to do whatever it is you do for them? While there may be a host of reasons for you to write your blog in the first [...

Bloggers can learn something from South Beach

Posted on February 25, 2010
This week Clay and I spent a couple of days in Miami, in and around the South Beach area. Clay went to the Future of Web Apps conference and I had the chance to hang out and try to relax a bit. Lots of luck relaxing in Miami. If you have never [....

Don’t go broke before you even get started

Posted on February 24, 2010
These are hard times for doing business. For both starters and owners. It doesn’t matter whether online or offline. So many things to plan and so many things to fulfill in order to stand out from the crowd and make your idea become a successful business...

Scribe SEO Special Pricing Ends February 26th

Posted on February 18, 2010
If you are thinking at all about grabbing this amazing SEO tool, don’t wait. The special pricing for Scribe ends February 26th at 6:00 pm Central time. This is for the Advanced Plan which will go up to its regular price of $97. Right now, you can have it for $27 [...

Is Your Blog Mobile Friendly?

Posted on February 18, 2010
Experts seem to agree that although the recession has hurt some sectors, Smartphone users are growing.   And with that growth, more and more Smartphone owners are accessing the Internet via their mobile phones.  This means that chances are  a section of your blog readers are going to be reading your blog from their iPhone, Blackberry, [...

The Value of Selling Less

Posted on February 17, 2010
If you’re a marketer who sells a product or who wants to sell a product at some point, I want to run an idea by you that you may not have considered. You might want to consider deliberately selling less of your product. You might be surprised at how good a lower sales volume can [...

5 Cool Shopping Carts for WordPress

Posted on February 16, 2010
I’ve been looking over shopping carts for weeks, and wow. All carts are not created equal. Good developers make a cart that works. Really good developers know we need— A smoothly paved checkout for our customers, not one filled with roadblocks and speedbumps (like registration and logins), The shopping cart to look a lot [...

How to Open a New Line of Revenue from Your Blog by Creating Information Products

Posted on February 15, 2010
You may be sitting on gold mine with your blog and not even know it. Learn how to recycle old blog posts into profitable information products. Information products are items such as ebooks, audio, video, workbooks, checklists, or better yet, a combination of any of these...

SEO Copywriting Made Simple With Scribe

Posted on February 15, 2010
A little over two weeks ago, Brian Clark of Copyblogger contacted me about a new SEO tool he was coming out with. Once Brian told me about it and actually gave me a beta copy to try out I was simply amazed. We have been using it on BFP now for over a [...

Today is Valentine?s Day, and you might wonder what the heck that has to do with blogging, never mind blogging for profit.

Posted on February 14, 2010
Patience, Butterfly, I am about to tell you. Let?s start by reading this article. What we have here is a portrait of a small business, OKCupid.com, founded by a few math geeks, trying to compete with dating site behemoths, in the form of Match.com, PlentyOfFish...

Blog For Profit and Where the Road is Leading Us in 2010

Posted on February 13, 2010
I was inspired a few weeks ago by David Risley from a post he did called, “Weekly Project: The Coming Wave, and Crushing It.” With this post, he gave an update to his readers on what is happening and what is going on. I too thought it was an awesome idea and decided [...

We Are Different…

Posted on February 13, 2010
I have to give a hat tip to Jay Fleischman for posting this video from Content Wrangler. It is amazing. The video truly hits the nail on the head when we think about how we communicate and even social media. When I was watching it, I actually got goose-bumps...

Why Becoming a Content Publisher is About More Than Just Words

Posted on February 12, 2010
I realize many of you are familiar with the book Get Content Get Customers by Joe Pulizzi and Newt Barrett. If you’re not, then you owe it to yourself and your business to pick up a copy. Regardless, Joe and Newt have done an excellent job articulating the purpose and reason for becoming a content publisher...

How To Expand Your Blog’s Reach With Bacon

Posted on February 11, 2010
As a business blogger, you’re always looking for ways to increase traffic and subscribers. You started using Facebook and Twitter for this very reason, and have had some success. But for some reason, your traffic and email subscribers have tapered off...

The Lazy Woman’s Guide to Posts

Posted on February 09, 2010
I have a confession to make: I’m incredibly lazy. If you follow me around the intertubes this may surprise you: I post daily on my website, contribute robustly on three forums, and twitter all the live long day. So how do I do it? My key to action: no-one’s too lazy to do something fun...

Boomers and Social Media – Are you where your potential customers are?

Posted on February 03, 2010
Facebook took over as the leading social network for baby boomers in 2009, growing 106% to nearly 22.6 million users. MySpace saw a 40% decline in boomers during the same period, to 9.7 million, and Twitter visitors increased 714%, to 4.2 million. LinkedIn, a business site that has seen traffic rise during the economic recession, [...

War of the Words: The Ethics of Ghost Blogging

Posted on February 02, 2010
When Grant asked a week ago if I would write a post about the pros and cons of legal ghost blogging the prospect seemed a lot simpler than it does today. With heated discussions about the ethics of ghost blogging currently taking place on other blogs right now, the topic now seems heavy with significance...

How to stop feeling like a small fish

Posted on February 01, 2010
Guest post from Mariam Cisse: When I started blogging a few months ago, I was idealizing all the “big fishes” like Grant, Darren, Yaro or John. I wanted to become one of them, too. That’s what probably the most bloggers have in mind, when they start a blog...

Five Ways to Recycle Your Old Blog Content

Posted on January 30, 2010
Some bloggers say the average lifespan of a blog post is 90 days. I disagree. I see the average lifespan of a blog post to be no more then 30 days. Usually, once the post is off the “front page” of your blog and buried in the archives, it stays there...

Mind Your (Blog) Manners!

Posted on January 29, 2010
Here at Blog for Profit, you’ve learned about gaining inspiration from other peoples blog posts and the importance of encouraging interaction through the comments section of your blog. Although the great posts here have certainly mentioned it in passing, I thought perhaps it was the perfect time to discuss blog courtesy...

Your choice of extras when you buy Kick Your Blog in the Butt

Posted on January 27, 2010
Michael Martine of Remarkablogger fame has been gracious enough to allow me to offer a couple of kick butt extras if you purchase the 31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt ebook and workbook. But there is a catch. These extra will not run for ever. In fact, we will be [...

44 Ways To Use a Blog as a Small Business Owner

Posted on January 26, 2010
If you spend as much time talking to small business or professional service firms as I do, you probably get some of the same questions too. One of the most common is, “How can I use a blog as a small business owner?” Of course, we are assuming they know what a blog [...

The Magical Pixie Refreshment Formula for Blog Writers

Posted on January 25, 2010
You?re probably getting tired of titles like that: 10 Buzzwords Your Blog Must Use, Liven Up Your Headlines With This Powerful Secret, The Right Underpants to Earn $13,863 in the Next Six Minutes… In fact, you might be getting tired of writing in general...

The Kick Ass Home Theatre Set Up Guide to Blogging

Posted on January 23, 2010
One of the great things about blogging is that it sparks as much interest and debate outside the blog as it does inside. From views on whether blogging is dead (hint: it’s not) to communities and whether Gen Y is driving the blogosphere, there’s never a dull moment...

The Top Factor For A Successful Blog Is..

Posted on January 22, 2010
Well that’s what I wanted to be able to tell you. Tony Robbins once told me (ok – so it was on a tape but hey..) that to be successful, we simply need to find out what successful people [bloggers] do, and do the same. So let’s find and ask some of the top bloggers what they [...

Minding Your Ps

Posted on January 21, 2010
Roger C. Parker wrote about planning your blog content awhile back. He offered a diagram for success that put writing in between Planning and Promotion, with well-earned Profits as the result. It’s a great visual, and there are a few more Ps to add: Purpose, Personality, Persistence, and Patience...

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