by Bryan on September 26, 2008
In recent months the internet has experienced a meteoric rise in the popularity of Micro-blogging. Twitter.com has nabbed the top spot in the space and has become an essential tool to many high profile bloggers and internet marketers. Twitter’s service provides 140 characters per post and allows users to follow others and be followed similar to an rss subscriber (more about Twitter). We all know bloggers and internet marketers aren’t using the service just for kicks, which begs the question, why are they using Twitter? Let’s take a look.
5 Good Reasons Bloggers Should Use Twitter
1. Attract New Subscribers
By allowing users to follow and be followed, Twitter proves to be an excellent tool to find and attract your target audience. Conversing on your topic can net you followers through Twitter search channels and through the profiles of followers or people you are following. Twitter allows you to add a url in your profile so there is a good chance your Twitter followers will make their way to your blog if they like what you have to say.
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by Bryan on September 25, 2008
I’m going to start this post off with a few blogging statistics.
- Technorati has indexed 133 million blogs.
- Only 1.1% of blogs online have posted in the last week.
- Approximately 130,000 new blogs are launched every day.
Looking at those numbers it sure seems like new blogs are almost set up for failure before they ever get started. So many blogs to compete with and and at the same time so many that seem to have already failed. The truth is blogging is not easy and every blogger will face numerous failures. Whether it be a missed opportunity, a post that gets criticized by commenters, a hosting outage or a factual oversight, failures are going to happen. How a blogger manages failure is what is important.
Notable Failures
To get us started in the right direction lets take a look at a few failures of successful people.
Michael Jordan - Cut from his high school basketball team.
Rush Limbaugh - Dropped out of South East Missouri State University his freshman year after failing 2 speech classes.
Walt Disney - Fired from a newspaper job because he didn’t bring original ideas and lacked imagination.
Kurt Warner - Worked at a grocery store stocking shelves for minimum wage after being cut by the Green Bay Packers.
Abraham Lincoln - Defeated in 8 elections and had 2 failed businesses.
To add some blogging perspective lets look at one of the top internet marketing bloggers Jeremy Schoemaker. Jeremy recently posted some of his failures at Shoemoney.com with a notable tongue in cheek comment that he is, “about 5 for 500 when it comes to successful ideas vs flops”.
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