November 2010

Sunday Link Love #9

by David Shaw on 28th Nov 2010 · 15 comments

It’s Sunday, it’s link love time. I have read some really good blog posts this week and as usual I would like to share my favourites with you today: Are Social Bookmarking Sites For You? – More Moo Is Your Content King? – Blogging Bookshelf How The Old Spice Man Re-invented Social Media Marketing – [...]


QOTW: What Makes A Successful Business Blog?

by David Shaw on 25th Nov 2010 · 6 comments

Welcome to a new feature on my blog that I am calling: ‘Question Of The Week’ (QOTW). I talked yesterday about the importance of asking questions to become a better blogger. So I thought I would follow this up with a question feature on my blog. The idea of this feature is to gain thoughts, [...]


Are you asking questions on your blog or through your social media outposts? We all like to think that we are the experts of our niche, that we know everything and have all the answers? In truth we don’t know everything, the question is, do we accept that and carry on avoiding the areas we have [...]


Sunday Link Love #8

by David Shaw on 21st Nov 2010 · 9 comments

Another week has gone by so quick. Sorry about the lack of a Sunday Link Love post last weekend, I was feeling very ill so decided to get some rest instead. I am fighting fit again this week and have a great collection of articles for you to cast your eyes on. I recommend you [...]


How I Aim To Reach 2000 Twitter Followers

by David Shaw on 19th Nov 2010 · 15 comments

It’s Friday so I am going to keep it short today. I recently set myself the goal of reaching 2000 Twitter followers. I originally wanted to do this before christmas but am thinking of moving the deadline to the end of January, due to the fact that Xmas is the busiest time of year where [...]


Be Yourself, Have Fun, Be Successful

by David Shaw on 17th Nov 2010 · 13 comments

I was chatting to some fellow bloggers the other day and we got talking about the image that you should portray of yourself on your blog. Not the profile picture you show but the way you try to get people to perceive you. Should you go out of your way to make yourself look more [...]


A few weeks back I wrote a tutorial detailing how to show off your RSS and Twitter follower counts. If you missed that post you can get it here: ‘How To Display Twitter And RSS Follower Counts On Your Blog‘. Since I wrote that post I have noticed that many bloggers are starting to combine [...]


ProBlogger Book Winners

by David Shaw on 10th Nov 2010 · 4 comments

I would like to start by saying a big thank you to everyone that entered and tweeted about this competition. If you have no idea what this competition is all about then you should check out ‘Win A Copy Of The Problogger Book‘. This competition was meant to be a quick and easy giveaway, and [...]


Win A Copy Of The ProBlogger Book

by David Shaw on 9th Nov 2010 · 8 comments

I started feeling generous yesterday and decided that I would run a small giveaway competition. Deciding on what to give away was the hardest part, but seeing as I aim to give useful blogging and social media tips I thought the ProBlogger book ‘Secrets For Blogging Your Way To A Six-Figure Income‘ would make a [...]