What I think you shouldn’t have missed last week…

A new week has just started and I hope it took off wonderfully for all of you. And I’ve got the perfect reading list to help you make your week a little better!

Janelle of Create Business Growth has written about freedom of speech and the lack of it in the online world. We should all think about this a little, as one of my early morning emails told the story of a censored Mixx entry.

Looking for a new way to increase sales? Why not try flagship content? Chris Garrett has just published an article teaching you everything you need to know.

Afraid of falling into a blogging rut? Michael Martine of Remarkablogger has just the tips to help you avoid one.

There’s been quite some debate regarding who should handle social media related tasks within a company. Should it be HR, PR, Marketing or should it be anyone with a genuine interest? The most comprehensive piece I’ve read on the subject is an article by Shel Hotlz of A Shel of My Former Self.

Naomi Dunford of IttyBiz has just revealed a golden rule of word of mouth marketing: not pissing people off and remembering there’s more than your primary target!

All the Marketing and PR professionals thinking of embracing the social media need a few tips and tricks. Chris Brogan has come up with a list with what they should know.

If you haven’t heard the “Content is King” phrase at least once last week, you haven’t been online much. Alex Cristache of Blogsessive shows us how important the kingdom is in the blogging equation.

I’m a proud member of the Generation Y. Not by choice, but by year of birth. And those borne a little before me are Gen Xers. These are the two gens I’ll be spending a lot of my life with, so any statistics on them are of interest. Especially when they are great statistics, like the ones David Wilson has just published on Social Media Optimization.

Hope you’ve found this week’s list helpful and you’ll join me for a fresh one next week!

Happy Monday,
Alina

What I think you shouldn’t have missed last week…

Happy Monday everyone! I hope you’re week is off to an amazing start and that you have time for some reading today as I come with interesting suggestions.

If you’re planning to boost your e-commerce sales through blogging, Michael Martine of Remarkablogger has 10 wonderful tips to help you achieve your goals.

Ian Lurie of Conversation Marketing explains a very important interdependence: social media and SEO go together and can’t possibly be separated.

We all want to increase our traffic. And Ted Demopoulos of Blogging and Business has some great tips for us to read and apply.

Erica Douglass from Erica.biz is determined to show us how to obtain a difficult, yet rewarding goal: making a million dollars with our business.

As word of mouth is such a powerful marketing tool, we all want others to talk about us and, more importantly, our business. Dawud Miracle explains how to get the conversation started.

As this week seems to be dedicated to 10-tip lists, here’s another exciting collection: read NetBusinessBlog to improve local search rankings in Google.

If you were wondering how not to pitch to a blogger, here’s Eric Karjaluoto’s (Ideas on Ideas) take on bad blog PR.

From tips, moving on to 10 commandments: Beth Kanter of Beth’s Blog: How Non Profits Can Use Social media has recently published the 10 commandments of of panel discussions.

And if you’re ever using Typepad and want to switch to Wordpress, stop by Confident writing first and read Joanna’s Young guide to the move.

I do hope you’re able to find something useful on this list. See you all next week when I promise to be back with more interesting articles for you to enjoy. Have a lovely Monday and week!

Alina

What I think you shouldn’t have missed last week…

A new week has just started and I am back with a reading list to keep you busy for a while. Hope you enjoy it at least as much as you’ve enjoyed previous roundups.

The Homeless Tales is a rather new blog documenting the journey of a homeowner turned homeless through the days and nights of having nowhere to go. Here’s a slice of this amazing story, e lesson of discovering the true beauty surrounding us even in the hardest moments of our existence.

Jonathan Fields has taken us on a slogan train wreck, showing us how a bad choice of words, although funny to some, may end up driving most customers away.

If you were wondering how many customer reviews it takes to have online shoppers press the “buy now” button, David Wilson of Social Media Optimization has the right answer.

As additional proof that the road to hell is paved with good intentions is always welcome, Drew McLellan of Drew’s Marketing Minute shows us how employees saying a bit too much to customers about you and your business can do a lot of harm.

When it comes to social media, there’s no problem in doing a little self promoting. Or at least that’s the opinion of Janelle, one of the Create Business Growth contributors.

Liz Fuller of Business and Blogging has applied the Pareto Principle to blogging and has also proved her theory, give or take 5%.

If you’re a marketer, this is something you really need to read. Chris Brogan points out, again, that the marketing message should be what the customers actually want to here, not something they couldn’t care less about.

As always, I hope you find at least one useful suggestion in this Monday list. I’ve surely left out quite a few interesting entries of last week’s blogging world, so feel free to add your own recommendations in the comments section. See you next week!

What I think you shouldn’t have missed last week…

Hello everyone! The 7th edition of the Monday Reading Roundup is here, allowing me to share the awesome things I found last week.

Chris Brogan wrote a great story on being easy. That means your about page, your business cards, everything describing you and what you do needs to be easy to understand, so that you are successful when trying to get people  interested in what you have to offer.

Laura Spencer of Business and Blogging identified 10 capital offenses when it comes to blogging. Are you committing any of them? On her other blog, WritingThoughts, she explained, through a Q&A approach, the basics of rush jobs.

Marios Alexandrou of All Things SEM published an in-depth analysis of how Google’s inclusion of search volume in its AdWords Keyword tool will completely change keyword research as we know it. A nice addition to the extensive coverage of the news piece.

Ian Lurie of Conversation Marketing taught us how to tune up our site with 3 hours dedicated to internet marketing. Quite an interesting approach!

Karen Swim of Words for Hire explained the importance of obstacles. How the shape us, make us stronger and how incomplete we’d be without them.

Hope you’ve enjoyed today’s list and please feel free to add what you’ve come across in the comments section. See you all next week!

What I think you shouldn’t have missed last week…

Welcome everyone! This week’s edition of our Monday Reading Roundup if significantly affected by the holiday breeze. Meaning it’s a combination of new stuff, new finds, humor, crazy news and interesting articles. Hope you enjoy it as much as you enjoyed previous ones.

First of all, I have to tell you all that Alex of Blogsessive has released a free Wordpress theme called Simple Balance that you can download and use on your blog. It looks amazing, so consider it in your blog redesign plans.

I’ve also find an extremely cool site on tea, Ya-Ya’s Tea Bord. As I know a few of my readers are tea lovers, I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

Speaking of crazy news, Geeks Are Sexy reported that a teen tried to sell his vote on eBay. When the police came knocking on his door, he’s excuse was it had all been a joke. Seems like everything is up for sale on eBay these days

Jonathan Fields has brought an interesting question to my (and your) attention: are smartphones actually making us dumber? It appears they are. I for one, if deprived of my phone, would be unable to contact any of my relatives or close friends.

Now that you’ve relaxed, had fun and sighed at others’ craziness, it’s time to relax. A guest post on Blissful Travel on the Thai island of Lipe. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be there than in the office

Matt Jones of Blogging Fingers states it’s possible to make more money by blogging less. And he has also done a terrific job at explaining us how to achieve such a goal.

And instead of conclusions, I give you John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing explaining how cheap gas makes us lazier and how the rise in gas price comes with more physical exercises.

I hope you’ve had fun reading these fine articles and blogs. See you all next week for another round of summery readings.