12 Things I Learned in 2008

On January 26, 2009, in Blogging, by Brett

The Middle Zone Musings has hosted a most excellent and fun series known as Blogapolooza 2009, where bloggers from all over have been submitting their top lessons learned from 2008. It’s a great way to discover new blogs.  I managed to get my post in just under the deadline, and you can read it here [...]

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7 Pieces of Quick Blogging Advice by Andy Sernovitz

On December 17, 2008, in Blogging, by Brett

Andy Sernovitz has just machine-gunned out these great nuggets of blogging principles. Read them all; it’s mandatory.  On comments On writing style On focus More on comments On workload and editing On blogging tools On design and layout

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Why Are You Blogging?

On November 12, 2008, in Blogging, by Brett

Sonia at Copyblogger posted a great reminder for both the current blogger and soon-to-be blogger alike: Why Should Anyone Read Your Blog?  Aside from the astonishing stats that there are more than 133 million blogs available today and more than 900k blog posts posted a day, there is the equally astonishing yet simple message that [...]

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My Newest Blog: VintageBrett.com

On July 19, 2008, in Blogging, by Brett

OK – for those of you bored to death with my marketing pontifications, loyal readers of this blog only because of a dedicated friendship or a love of giving me a hard time via the comments, I got ya something: Introducing VintageBrett.com, my all-new blog that has absolutely nothing to do with marketing, and everything [...]

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Does Your Blog Suck?

On July 17, 2008, in Blogging, by Brett

Here’s an educational rant at Search Engine Land that provides a little food for thought. Are you guilty? To me, this line sums up the real point: “The problem with this, of course, is that any time you do anything just for SEO purposes, you’ll almost always do it wrong.” SEO is powerful, but providing [...]

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4 Rules of Blogging

On April 7, 2008, in Blogging, by Brett

A most excellent and insightful post at Canuckflack. It never hit me how relevant and related your satisfaction of your paying “day” job is to your blogging habits. No comment as to where I sit in this list. Here’s one I would add: The less busy you are at your paying job, the more likely [...]

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No Value

On March 11, 2008, in Blogging, Business, Strategy, by Brett

I haven’t written a post in almost a week, which is fairly rare for me. The fact is, I haven’t really had anything worth saying, or an urge to say it. I’ve got nothing to bring to the table. And for once, I think it’s better to say nothing than to say anything. I am [...]

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400 Days of Brett’s Blog

On February 23, 2008, in Blogging, by Brett

On January 19, 2007, I started this simple little blog with not much more than a hankering to blog, as you can see in this inaugural post. Since then, it’s no doubt become a highlight of life, as well as a highly addictive avenue of self-expression. Thanks to all of you who have made it [...]

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Starting From Scratch

On November 28, 2007, in Blogging, by Brett

If you read lots of blogs, then you probably use some kind of aggregate service to receive all of your feeds in one place. And if you’ve done that for some time, you’ve probably noticed that all the posts get backed up like your inbox on vacation, and things can get out of hand pretty [...]

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25,000 Views and Counting . . .

On November 26, 2007, in Blogging, by Brett

Just a quick note to thank you for owning at least one set of the 25,000 pairs of eyeballs that have taken a look at Brett’s Blog since its inception on January 19 of this year. Blogging has most definitely been way more fun, entertaining and educational than I thought it would be, so here’s [...]

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