I had a fun idea last night to start up a friendly Blog Riffing competition.

Here are the basics of how it'll work:

I'll announce an article from someone's blog for everyone to Riff on (starting in marketing, and branching out to other niches as I find out what niches people are interested in).

Anyon...
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I was thinking this morning about blog commenting. Lots of people are sharing lots of opinions on it lately:

Commenting is in decline -- everybody's sharing via social media instead.

Commenting isn't as valuable as it used to be -- all the links are no-followed, and nobody reads the comments anyway.

You may as wel...
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It's my anniversary! Not my wedding anniversary -- that was back in April. My daily blogging anniversary. I used to be a pretty lame blogger, averaging less than three posts per month. So if you've tried to blog regularly before and failed, I've been in your shoes. And I can tell you from experience that...
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Yesterday over at Daily Blog Tips, Daniel Scocco shared a hint about the kinds of email requests he responds to:

...the requests I reply to always create a win-win situation. That is, the other part wants something, but she is also willing to do something for me, so everyone will be happy in the end....
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The AWeber blog this morning carried a little debate over whether you should ask for more than a name and email address in your signup form. Here's an excerpt:

Nick: ... We tend to think of our mailing lists as something we give to our subscribers for free, but that's kind of a flawed assumption....
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I read a great post on productivity over at Entrepreneur's Journey this morning. Aziz Ali posted five simple productivity tips, including:

2. Eat That Frog

...Eat That Frog in a nutshell means to do those tasks first that you do not want to do the most.

That reminded me of something I wrote back i...
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A few days ago, Daniel Scocco shared a few lessons he's learned growing a blog to a million monthly pageviews. Here are the first two:

1. Choose Your Niche Wisely

Most people who read this blog [meaning Daily Blog Tips] probably think it is my largest and most profitable website. Well, it's not... Niches like...
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The video from last month about how to configure SEO Content Factory for blogging workgroups generated a lot of interest, along with some great feature requests. So I knuckled down and went to work. And last week, I released a new workgroup version named SEO Content Factory/WG.

Here's a video that'll show you how you...
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Once again, it's time to report which headlines got the most of my blog broadcast emails opened and click through last month. Where you see (+), (++) and (+++), that indicates that the headline in question was at the top of one of the other lists (with (+++) indicating the #1 position).

This was an...
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Here's something I stumbled across today from the "ain't it the truth" department. If you've never written an eBook, read what Ali Luke wrote:

So what's stopping you? I think I know ...

Maybe you think you don't know how. Sure, you're comfortable with writing blog posts, but an ebook is a totally different animal....
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