Recently, it became clear to me that I was not walking the talk.  That as a marketer, I was using excuses like: “I spend my days marketing others” and “I am very fortunate that I get so many referrals, so I don’t need to be marketing myself.”  But then, it occurred to me I couldn’t ask other folks to be investing their time to doing email marketing, blogging and social media, if I was putting it on the back burner, myself.
I understand how hard it is to find time, and …

Editor’s Note: The video of the Blogging for Biz panel is now available at WordPress.TV – it is also added to the end of this post.
I had a great time at WordCamp Boulder.  Beth J. Hayden – of BloggingWithBeth.com – and Jim Turner – of OneByOneMedia.com – shared the Blogging for Business Panel with me (Bethany Siegler of UniqueThink).  I heard there was video of it, so I won’t repeat much of what was discussed.  And once I find it, I’ll link to it.  In the meantime, I did want …

One of my clients who does a lot with videos, Freddy at Atomic Tango, shared this info with me and I had to share it with all of you.
As you’ll see from the video below, WordPress.com is getting into the video hosting business.  What does that mean?  Well, if it means what I believe it does, it means these things:

You can now host a video at WordPress.com directly – you don’t have to host your own videos somewhere else and then embed them into your own site
As Freddy points …

It is always rewarding when you can find another reputable voice who writes up some of the same things you’ve already been saying about how to get maximum impact from your blog.
Recently, Marketing Sherpa dedicated their Chart of the Week to a graph showing how to insure maximum impact from your blog (click on the chart to see their post).
Among the things they point out, in this quick read, are what they call the ‘three absolutes in blogging’:
1. Genuine, heartfelt content – too often, this one throws corporate clients, when it …