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November 8, 2006
In Search of A-List Bloggers
"Traditional search is broken. It simply does not work for blogs," cautions Fast Company Networking Resource Center Columnists David Teten and Scott Allen, authors of "The Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online."
In their latest column, Teten and Allen weigh the pros and cons of various blog search engines, including PubSub, Technorati, Bloglines, Feedster, IceRocket, and Google Blog Search.
Speaking of A-List bloggers, Fast Company.com, many of them have used their blogs to start a new career. Read "How to Launch a Career With Your Blog," to find out how.
Posted by Lynne d Johnson at November 8, 2006 1:05 PM | Category: networking |
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I've created a unique model for my blog targeted to sales professionals, managers and entrepreneurs.
Monday through Friday, I pick a unique/bizarre news item, current story, joke or one of my sales horror stories and lead with this content of interest.
The story is then tied to a lesson which helps business-building practices.
A great example is Taco Bell Pack Rats:
In August, about a dozen masked men lugged six 40-gallon trash bags full of sauce packets into the Taco Bell on South Western Avenue in Marion, Ind., leaving a note explaining that they had been accumulating them for a while and decided to give them back. They suspected they had 25,000 packets. (Taco Bell said it hands out about 6 billion a year.) [Chronicle Tribune (Grand County, Ind.), 8-10-06]
Funny incident, funny imagery, funny that it might be a sad reflection on the dangers of accumulation in our lives. The brief blog thought continues here...
http://www.salesautopsy.com/blog/taco-bell-pack-rats/2006/11/02/
This gets attention and return visitors. More importantly, it serves the reading audience with useful ideas which further enhance the viral aspects of a blog.
Blogs that serve as long rambling rants or other forms of news feeds are annoying and redundant.
What is your model? Or do you follow one?