Five Favorite Stumbles of the week, vol. 8
By Joe Ferry on Nov 9, 2008 in Featured | comments(0)
A little late on this week’s Stumbling report…enjoy!
- The world just witnessed one of the greatest sales job of all time. A relatively unknown, relatively inexperienced Senator from Chicago defeated a celebrated war hero with a 30-year track record public service and politics to become President of the United States. As if those odds weren’t long enough, Barack Obama also had to overcome the reluctance of a nation to elect an Africa American to the highest office. Yet, he accomplished both of those feats by a wide margin. At WebInkNow, Scott Merrmen offers 10 marketing lessons from the Barack Obama Presidential campaign, many of which can be easily transferred to your business.
- Sometimes, writing a blog can feel like claping with one hand — difficult to make any noise. You come up with a great post idea, craft your words carefully, and sit back to wait for reaction and good conversation, only to be disappointed when your work is met with deafening silence. BlogKori suggests seven ways to get more comments on your blog post.
- Speaking of blogging, getting visitors to leave comments is sort of of like icing on the cake. Getting them to even read your post is the first challenge. At SEOptimise, the oddly-titled “The Lazy Bloggers Guide to Quality Content & Social Media Success” offers 5 reasons why you should forget about writing the perfect piece of quality content.
- As the previous Stumble showed, adding interesting photos to your blog post can increase interest. But where can you find photos? Google images is sometimes a good source, but often you are seeing copyrighted work that someone else is using. The folks at Digital Image Magazine have compiled a list of 25 free stock photo sites and a brief review of each one.
- Keeping a journal seems so old-fashioned these days. I rmember my creative writing professor requiring us to keep a journal way back in the Stone Age (1974). It seemed like such a burden when I had much more important things to do. Writing at makeGenius.com, Ivan Rios makes a compelling argument for keeping a journal and offers several suggestions of the kinds of things your should keep in it. Come to think of it, I wish I had kept a journal all these years; it might help explain how I got to where I am.
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