http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com Tia Graham, theblogsultant.com Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:35:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't had a lot of time lately for talking about doing because I've been too busy, well DOING.  Life Has Been Full and Has Been Full of Life. But the world of social marketing is changing and redefining (when does it ever stop?), and in my spare moments while ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2008/06/06/conversational-branding/ Are you a writer and blogger seeking to find a way to make money doing what you love? I, TheBlogsultant, am working on growing my business and developing it's reach. I'm looking to hire a vitual assistant who is interested in training to become a potential partner in Conversational Marketing. Hours are ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2008/02/08/im-hiring/ Though I've used a laptop as my personal computer for well over a year now, until now I've only used my wireless portability within the various rooms of my house. I liked having the option of working at desk, kitchen table, bed, or front porch. When I left the house, ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/12/11/wi-fi-on-the-move-panera-is-ahead-of-the-free-hot-spot-pack/ Stephan Spencer's recent article on DYI Reputation Management was recently a helpful reminder, which I thought would be a good idea to pass on. I am currently in the midst of a major personal life change and my primary blog is started out as a very personal blog; then evolved ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/11/15/reputation-management/ Blogrush is working on some issues and still has dashboards down; I did notice in doing month end traffic reports yesterday that I have seen traffic on all my sites coming in via blogrush. So we will optimistically wait to see what they unveil. Mumdinger is unfortunately, not something I can ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/10/01/aweber-a-customer-service-review/ So a week into using both, here's a sampling of how things are going: Mumdinger is showing itself to be tiny and slow. There is little new content and what is there is added and ranked at a snail's pace. The stories I submitted didn't receive many votes...but neither do their ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/09/24/mumdinger-and-blogrush-update/ Well BlogRush has brought me one success: easier surfing for similar sites within my category! Common advice for site growth is to find sites similar to yours and link to them but time has always been a factor me in hunting down sources. BlogRush brings them right to my site! ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/09/20/digg-with-a-feminine-touch-mumdinger/ Darren on problogger has, what I believe to be quite honestly, presented a fairly new traffic-building tool called BlogRush.com. It's getting some mixed press and today the founder sent out a thorough email detailing the ups, downs, and future plans of the service. I'm trying it out on all my ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/09/19/blogrush-will-it-work/ I took this weekend off. As there was a server/spam issue over the same amount of days, it seems this blog and parts of others took it off as well. And I resisted the urge to allow it (yet another tech problem) to consume what was able to ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/09/17/setting-workhome-boundaries-as-a-work-at-home-mom/ It occurred to me that in my contest over the previous week I handled Stumble, Digg, Reddit, and Thoof as if they were equal peers. In fact, they are not the same in either age nor size, yet, in my mind, much as Ron paul is to the current political ... http://blog.bloggingwithflair.com/2007/09/13/size-matters-when-the-underdog-threatens-to-surpass-the-big-guns/