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Who should write in your voice?

If you want to be a thought leader, don’t outsource your blogging.

Text Content for Thought Leadership: Who does what?

There are six kinds of online content. Who should be writing what?

Make it Easy to Engage

LiveJournal should have been shut down along with GeoCities.

How I Drive Traffic to My Site – BROGAN 100 #71

This post may seem a little premature- it’s not like I’m getting thousands of hits a month or anything. But I’ve gotten what I consider a decent 800 new visitors in the last 30 days, without doing try nearly as hard as I should be.
Here’s where it’s coming from:
Commenting on Blogs
By far, the most traffic [...]

How I Process Blogs and What I Do With All that Info – Brogan 100 #39

Google Reader.

Batch. Skim. Tag. Tweet. Clear.

A Hard Look at my Media Habits – BROGAN 100 #28

A very short list of things I do well, and a longer list of things I need help with. Any ideas or suggestions?

Wordpress Plugins I Use and Why – Brogan 100 #68

What WordPress plugins do YOU use?

How I Find Blogging Ideas

BROGAN 100 – #9

in which I explain how I intend to complete Chris Brogan’s 100 Blog Posts he hopes I write, and then go about completing my first one, #9 on his list.

The Long Tail of Blogging

For all the “perfect” keywords that get used by thousands of people each day, there a tons of “long tail” searches- long strings of unusual words that only get used once because somebody is looking for something specific.

WordPress Base Install

What WordPress plugins should I use?

I get that question a lot.

The best answer is, “That depends on what you’re trying to accomplish.”

However- when it comes to Thought Leadership marketing, and the kinds of things I try to accomplish for my clients over and over, I’ve developed what I consider the “base install.” That is- we set these things up automatically unless we have some big reason not to.

So here goes my overly long list of WP Plugins I use (Almost) every time: