Trip Around the Blogosphere – August 3, 2008

I have taken a brief vacation from the Trip Around the Blogosphere, but it’s back this week. Not everything is brand new, but it’s still all worth reading. With my new found dedication to online endeavours, you can expect the Trip to publish weekly again. Enjoy!

• Brandie Kajino of Home Office Organizer wrote a great post entitledChecklists: Simply Productivity. She explains how she uses checklists to keep herself organized and how useful they can be – especially for those of us more visually-oriented types.
• Yoast (a site about WordPress, SEO and other website tweaks) posted a great article almost a month ago (I just found Yoast this week so I’m a bit late including the post) calledB2B SEO: Marketing Strategy for Specific Niches. This article discusses the huge variation in the time it takes to convert a business-to-business sale versus a busines-to-consumer sale. This is a must-read, especially for those of you selling services to businesses.
• In the article Links are the new Lotto Ticket, Aaron Wall explains how winning inbound links as part of a contest or promotion is a great way to avoid getting slapped by Google while doing a bit less legwork than the usual link-building tactics.
• Chris Crum wrote a nice article over at Small Business Newz entitled5 Ways to Keep Abreast of What’s Happening in Your Niche. At first I thought he was just trying to get some extra attention by using the word breast in his title, but the article turned out to have some great tips in it. Sometimes we forget how important it is to know what’s going on in our market(s).
• In Paid Content – A Dying Business Model?, Andy Beard points out the multi-million dollar business of selling content. In a reply to some comments made by Michael Arrington, Andy does a great job of highlighting the extreme amount of profit there can be in selling content – particularly using the membership site model.
• In just six months, Syed Balkhi has grown his blog Balkhis: Vision for Success to over 500 subscribers and a profit of nearly $2000 a month. In his latest post, 13 Ways I Used to Promote My Blog to Success, Syed shares some of the methods he has used to reach such great success in such a short period of time. This is a killer article packed with excellent advice from someone with real experience. Read it at least twice!

And there you have it. Hopefully next week I’ll be able to pass along a bit more link love. If you’d like to be part of the Trip Around the Blogosphere just leave a comment letting me know and I’ll check out your blog or post. One last quick reminder. Sparkplugging’s SparkplugU (still not an affiliate link!) offers some great classes you ought to check out.