Holiday Auto-Recovery

by Erin Banister

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Why do holidays always put me behind on my [tag]blogging[/tag]? I should learn, with wordpress’s ability to schedule posting to blog ahead of time…

Anyway, catching up, there are a few very interesting things in the blogosphere:

1. Everytime Mark Silver writes something, I hear his voice. I don’t know why… but he has this to say about rebranding oneself:

“…‘[tag]rebranding[/tag]’ yourself has to do with the vulnerability of seeing the people you want to care for intimately, standing on a platform of a simple message and vision of what is possible for the individual, and in creating a strategy for their care, comfort and guidance that they can rest into… If you are struggling with this, instead of searching for the answers, start searching for the question. It is my experience that questions are always twinned with their answers. If the answers for ‘branding’ or ‘identifying’ your business aren’t soothing your heart- try changing the questions. Ask your heart for the questions, instead of the answers.”

Poignant.

2. Seth Godin sez:

“If you market like a peasant, always a supplicant, always aware of your low station in life, you’re more likely to earn attention. Yes, you need the confidence and perhaps the bearing of a king. But the best marketers today appear to be those that accept the fact that they have no birthright, they weren’t awarded the right to attention. And, who knows, over time, they might earn their way up the ladder–to king.”

3. Andy Wibbels has done an awesome job promoting his Go [tag]BlogWild![/tag] Book - numerous teleclasses leading up to ’sales day’ - then having a ton of friends and affiliates promote the book. In Blogwild! Amazon Book Publicity Campaign Report Out, Andy gives the low-down on how this Andy-extravaganza helped amazon rank, sales, and more. I can’t wait to see what else he puts in the public eye as he’s promoting this book. I love the transparency in the whole operation - very bloggerific.

5. Suzanne Falter-Barnes has parnered with Andy Wibbles to discuss the idea that blogs are making websites obsolete.

9. You market automatically with a blog. But not with a conventional website. Every single time you post, systems like Typepad send out a little message to the directories that you’ve put up a new comment (called ‘pinging’.) And other systems, like Feedburner, advise folks by RSS feed or email that you’ve posted. So you generate automatic traffic.

10. You can make a lot more friends with a blog. You go on their blog and comment on their posts. They drop by your blog and comment on a post. You like their stuff and put them on your ‘blogroll’ - your list of friends. They do the same. Incoming links are set up to your site and theirs. That increases your search engine traffic … and makes life more fun.”

They have some points - they do - but as a consumer and a blogger, I don’t see websites leaving us anytime soon. Theoretically, while blogs are easy to create/maintain/update - people are still more comfortable with websites. I certainly would have a difficult time buying my essential services from a blog. Perhaps it will work for the non-traditional business (whatever that may be). For now, I’m not betting on blogs taking over the world.

More possibly later