Blogs Will Change Your Business
I found a nice article about blogs and their influence at BusinessWeek.
Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later
Editor’s note: The May, 2005, cover story, “Blogs Will Change Your Business,” continues to receive lots of attention online. But many of the details in the story are out of date. So we’ve called many of the original sources and asked readers to help provide fixes and updates. For the version of the story with 2008 annotations, please visit www.businessweek.com/go/08/blog.
Monday 9:30 a.m. It’s time for a frank talk. And no, it can’t wait. We know, we know: Most of you are sick to death of blogs. Don’t even want to hear about these millions of online journals that link together into a vast network. And yes, there’s plenty out there not to like. Self-obsession, politics of hate, and the same hunger for fame that has people lining up to trade punches on The Jerry Springer Show. Name just about anything that’s sick in our society today, and it’s on parade in the blogs. On lots of them, even the writing stinks.
To Sponsor Bloggers Doesn’t Work
Even Robert Scoble couldn’t save Seagate. Almost a year after the hard-drive maker renewed a sponsorship deal with the prolific blogger, its stock is down 35 percent. Archrival Western Digital, meanwhile, is up 40 percent. So much for the profession of “influencer marketing,” a field which has exploded since the 2000 publication of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and the subsequent work The Influentials. These books, translated into action by marketers, have prompted companies from AT&T to Yahoo to hire executives expressly to suck up to bloggers. Seagate’s Scoble sponsorship is the purest expression of this trend. And the best illustration of why it doesn’t work.
Add Spam Protected Contact Form To Your Wordpress or Web Site in a Minute
Add a simple contact form to your web site includes; name, e-mail, web site and message. When you Google for this, you’ll find too many options, but this one is the quickest one.
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1. Upload all files to wp-content/plugins/wp-contact-form/
2. Activate the plugin on the plugin screen
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Start Your Golden Blog Project with Wordpress
If your golden project is a great blog, you should start with Wordpress. Tech crunch make 200.000$ a month and uses wordpress.
Why to start your golden project with Wordpress?
1-) There are dozens of cool and proffessional themes. Also you can edit them from style.css file easily.
2-) You can create search engine friendly urls. This is very important.
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5-) Interface of wordpress is easier and user friendly than the others.
6-) Proffessional Web Bloggers use Wordpress.
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8-) Adding new features with plugins has never been easy like that.
9-) WP also includes adsense plugins. For example; “adman”. With this plugin, you can add ads into the posts.
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