Blogging for Dollars: Giving Rise to the Professional Blogger

Towards the end of June, I was invited to a conference at the Banff New Media Institute, located in the midst of the Canadian Rockies in the province of Alberta. The title of the conference was "Producing New Media: Money and Law," and we explored and discussed funding models and legal issues for various new media projects, including Weblogs. During that weekend, I came to…

Getting Honest With The Search Engines

I spend a lot of time reading newsletters and forum postings about search engine marketing. More often than not, people are asking about methods used to improve search engine rankings: what works, what doesn't, and what will get you in trouble.

14 Powerful Tips To Fire-Up Your Brochure

I've done a lot of research to discover the best and most powerful methods to increase the readership of your brochure. Here are the 14 tips that I believe will have the most impact.

A Winning Public Relations Game Plan

I have learned in my public relations work, especially from leaders in the field, that there are only three ways a public relations effort can impact behavior: create opinion where it doesn't exist, reinforce existing opinion or change that opinion. No surprise that the process by which those goals are realized is known as public relations. So, while behavior is the goal, and a host…