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Well 3:30 PM CST has come and gone and Ted Kosmatka , a great author friend of mine, has opened the envelope and the answer to the great question What the F Does the C Stand 4 been revealed. Just to let everyone know in case you missed the comment thread and especially for Lori ;) the answer was not Horse Wormer. I am reviewing all the answers to make sure that all legit entries are taken into account and none are missed. The winner or winners will be notified and a winning post in which the mystery answer will be revealed will be up tomorrow. If I find that no one has guessed correctly then as stated a winner of the "consolation" prize will be randomly picked from all entries. I want to say a big THANK YOU to all of you who participated and stay tuned for the September Contest starting after the holiday on tuesday. later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Yours Truly C “has to stand for Chow” Man Get more profitable and productive information by subscr...

Our friends over at SweetHacks are giving away some free advertising on their blog. 25 NEW advertisers on SweetHacks from the month of September to October for FREE. But wait it doesn’t stop there, I will also throw in a couple of “Thank You posts” and link to your blogs (only the Text Link Advertisers) and that should hopefully send in some visitors to your blog or website. I dont care whether your website has PageRank of 0 or 10, alexa ranking of 1 or 50million, anyone can participate in this unique giveaway. The offer only runs until all 25 spots are given away so head over to SweetHacks now and get in on the free advertising. The ads are on a FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED basis although it is said that a subscription to the feed helps. According to their advertising page SweetHacks Technology Blog Generates around 90 Thousand Page Views a Month from 25-30 Thousand Unique Visitors (monthly). You have until September the 4th to send in everything and all ads will be published on Septem...

Well this week I have tried to bring you a few bloggers you may not have come across, and of course some you have. I hope you enjoy these articles and blogs as much I have. Have a great hump day and remember its downhill from here to the weekend! The Dragon Slayer's Guide To Life - Writing for Bloggers 101: Writing Great Content and Avoiding Blogger Burnout A good article on a "new to me" blog that I have found interesting. Chris Garrett of CopyBlogger - The Persuasive Power of Specificity How is 6,312 better than a torrent? Dirty Little Man - 50 Tools that can Increase your Writing Skills While this article itself isn't full of content it has a great list of "tools" that I have been using to help improve my writing. A great article to bookmark so that you can come back to it. Darren Rowse - ProBlogger - 10 Ways to Hurt Your Blog’s Brand by Commenting on Other Blogs Another insightful article by THE ProBlogger himself. I know that you see so many times the i...

No bad pun intended really :). Well the shadowy John Cow has an article A-Listers Found Guilty Of Stealing where he talks about what he feels is a disparity in time spent by bloggers reading the a-listers and whether or not it is worth that time. Here is what Mr. Cow had to say. We hardly ever read Problogger, Shoemoney and have never even seen Seth Godin’s blog…well we did just now actually because we had to find his link. Quality Vs. Quantity I have to admit I don't visit those blogs nearly as much as I used to. I check the feeds of around 200 blogs and do searches for topics instead of spending my time browsing around a single blog. I try to stretch out a bit and read new blogs and find new sources of information and inspiration. Your post[sic] might have taken you hours to compile and will get you ~50 readers while they post a stupid YouTube video on a lazy day and get over ~5000 readers . - John Cow I know I have felt this way. Now I can't say that ProBlogger posts crap b...

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Well it is that time again. Here is another of my "shotgun" posts. There is no stripping this time :(. This is just a personal preference but I don't like posting multiple posts to enter every contest. I like to consolidate and try and be a little more productive in my use of space. Well on to the reason I'm typing. Many of you may have read my post And Bloggrrl said I was flush.... where I talked about entering a contest by one As(s)hwin Khanna in which the winner would win $2500. Now I was extremely skeptical from the beginning but figured what the heck. Well as suspected it was a huge load of crap. You can read some of the details over at Contest Blogger . Well Contest Blogger is now running an Ashwin Khanna Revenge Contest . The only entry requirements are that you entered As(s)hwin's contest and that you change your original link to his site over to Contest Blogger. Well I'm entered, and have changed my link to As(s)wipe, sorry As(s)hwin, dang I'll g...

You have a choice. Would you rather grind away at a blog that no one is reading, or have a blog read by thousands and earning you a nice income? excerpt from Transform Your Blog By Changing Yourself - Part 1 - Practice "To thine own self be true…" Most of us are familiar with the above quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, but how many of us know the rest of the line? “And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou can not then be false to any man.” Unless you are fist true to yourself, you cannot be true to others. You have to be yourself and be honest with yourself about who you are and what you are. You can't be all things to all people. You can't please all the people all the time. We've heard the cliches but they are true. There are so many people that are miserable because they are living their life trying to be something they are not. Trying desperately to hold together the pieces of the simulacrum they have built of themselves. To me living your life for other...