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I’ve been following Rick Butts for some time now folks, mostly because of his superb marketing sense but also for his humor which is off-the-wall hilarious!
He’s coined a NEW marketing phrase called Twitter Squeeze, which if you’re involved with Internet Marketing at all should reveal that it’s a blend of using Twitter and a Squeeze Page to build your marketing list!
So you simply HAVE TO get over and see his video, and get on his notice list. This is going to be good!

On August 7th, 2006 a lady by the name of  Liz created a buzz on the blogosphere with her a post on why readers do not leave comments which is at Successful-blog.

Here is the Post as it was written back then:

10 Reasons Readers Don’t Leave Comments

I don’t suppose this is all of the reasons folks choose not to comment. This is only a list of 10 +1 of them that I’ve heard over and over again.

1. What you write is so complete, that I don’t know what to say except good job. I feel silly writing that, so I read and move on.

2. You’ve taught me something I didn’t know, and I need to think about it before I even have a question. Much like number 1, I don’t want to embarrass myself. I’m better off moving on.

3. I get ready to type a comment, but I notice you only respond to a few friends who mostly share inside jokes. I won’t take the risk of being overlooked in public.

4. The folks who comment on your posts like to argue and I don’t. I’m not sure I’m brave enough to fight my way into the crowd.

5. You rarely respond to comments. So, there’s no point in writing one.

6. Your blog has geeky attitude and I’m not geeky enough to keep up. .

7. I really like your blog and your post, but I’m too tired, busy, or any one of a number things that you can’t control. I’ll comment the next I come back to read.

8. You end your posts with a giant general question like “What do you think of the Big Bang Theory?” That question is such a big one. I don’t have time to answer it. I feel strange answering with a lesser comment.

9. You put up a fence by making me login to comment. I have too many passwords already and I don’t know you well enough to add one to my list.

10. Your content wasn’t fresh and exciting, and I couldn’t find anything YOU inside it. It seemed the same post that I’ve read on 10 other blogs. If I commented, I would have to tell you that.

PLUS ONE: Your post was negative. Negative is scary. Most folks don’t like negative stuff, because they know they could be next to be the recipient. I don’t comment, because I don’t want to be part of it.

I strongly urge everyone to go here and read the comments made which at this point is over 264 comments.

There were a few comments made on this post that really grabbed my attention  - one was that “people do not understand the nature of the conversation” and the other was ” if some folks never commented when they first ventured into the blogosphere, it would be more difficult to jump in down the road (i.e. not a habit).”

Here is a reminder of why we should be commenting on our neighbours blogs:

1. When creating comments, you are getting the attention of the blog owner as well as your niche blog. When doing this on many blogs, you will start getting recognized on the blogosphere.

2. Just like any community, the blogosphere is made up of people and their views. Leaving comments shows that you care. A comment can be in the form of feedback, a suggestion, criticism and what we really all want -  appreciation

3.When you take that time to leave a comment, the blog owner is better able to judge what the readers or customers  are wanting

Last but not least, when leaving a comment you are leaving your “foot prints” as a friend of mine would say.  Translated, this can help you get good inbound links, which means additional traffic to your site.

What is your reason for either commenting or conversly not commenting?

To Your Success

At Successblognet, we are always searching for those blog tools to help all of our blogging community with ways and means to create unique and quality content.

Addictomatic is a blogging tool that searches the best live sites on the web for the latest news, blog post, videos and images.

There are many different web aggregators on the web where you can find relevant information on any topic you are searching for, which is fantastic for creating Utility posts or link bait posts.

Addictomatic builds a one page summary of results from 18 sites including Digg, Flickr, Twitter, Delicious, Technorati, YouTube, Google Blog Search, Yahoo, MSN Live, and Ask.

What I find most useful about Addictomatic as a blogging tool is that because it is set up in a newspaper column and box story format, you are better able to see those topics of interest for you to pursue.

RSS feeds present their items in a list format, which while can be good, takes time to go through each and every feed especially if you have skipped reading for a while.

Just like glancing at the headlines of your favorite newspaper, Addictomatic will give you a one page summery of all the news for your specific search term immediately.

As a successful blogging tool, we give this a thumbs up.

If You are interested in this blogging tool here is the link:  Addictomatic

To Your Success,

No Words are required…..lol lol

Enjoy your Day

To Your Success

Previously we had written an article on A List of Success Quotes from such people as Albert Einstein, Vince Lombardi, Edwin H. Chapin ( Impatience never commanded Success) which has been so well received we decided to continue this article.

The word Success has  many meanings to so many people.  In some ways it is a very overused word.

Looking at the Dictionary Success means:

–noun
1.    the favorable or prosperous termination of attempts or endeavors.
2.    the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
3.    a successful performance or achievement: The play was an instant success.
4.    a person or thing that is successful: She was a great success on the talk show.
5.    Obsolete. outcome.
[Origin: 1530–40; < L successus, equiv. to succéd-, s. of succédere to succeed + -tus suffix of v. action, with dt > ss]

—Related forms
suc·cess·less, adjective
suc·cess·less·ly, adverb
suc·cess·less·ness, noun

—Synonyms 2. achievement, fame, triumph.

After some thought I decided to see how others see Success and went looking for  great mentors of today.  I wanted to really understand their perceptions or steps leading to Success not just of the meaning of Success.

There are so many speakers /mentors/life coaches today who have become successful.  People like, Brian Tracy, Anthony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Jim Rohn and so many more.  These people became a success simply because they realized their faults, their imperfections and despite all of life’s certainties and at times life’s less than stellar circumstances, they went beyond themselves to realize their full potential.

When you are working on your blogs, your business and  life’s happenings remember that every one has a gift, a talent and maybe the best advice on can give - Never give up!

Enjoy these thought provoking videos. May they help you realize your path of Success.

and last but not least one of my favorite speakers:

Seth Godin

To Your Success,

This is a Public Awareness Announcement from Success Blog Net:

This can save your life! (ICE)

We all carry our mobile phones with names
& numbers stored in its memory. But nobody, other than ourselves,
knows which of these numbers belong to our closest family or friends.

If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people
attending on us would have our mobile phone but wouldn’t know who to
call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored ; but which one is the
contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this ‘ICE’ (In Case of
Emergency) Campaign.

The concept of “ICE” is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency
situations. As cell phones are carried by the majority of the
population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person
or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name
‘ICE’ ( In Case Of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents, there
were always mobile phones with patients, but they didn’t know which
number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if
there was a nationally recognized name for this purpose. In an
emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff
would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialing the
number you have stored as ‘ICE.’


For more than one contact name, simply enter ICE 1, ICE 2 and ICE 3 etc.
A great idea that will make a difference!

Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today!!!

Please spread/forward this.

It won’t take too many ‘forwards’ before everybody will know about this.
It really could save your life, or put a loved one’s mind at rest.

ICE will speak for you
when you are not able to do so.

To Your Succes,

How many times have you scratched your head wondering what to write about?

We all fall into the ” I don’t know what to say” mood, so just for fun why not try this on your blog:

“¡ɯǝɥʇ ɟo ǝuo sı ǝɹǝɥ  ˙sʎɐʍ ɟo ʎʇǝıɹɐʌ ɐ uı ǝuop ǝq uɐɔ pǝʇsǝɹǝʇuı ɹǝpɐǝɹ ɹnoʎ ʇǝƃ ןןıʍ ʇɐɥʇ sʇsod ƃuıʇɐǝɹɔ  ˙ǝʌıʇɐɯɹoɟuı sɐ ןןǝʍ sɐ unɟ ǝq pןnoɥs ƃoןq ɹnoʎ ƃuıʇɐǝɹɔ”

oh - You can’t read this?

Is this better?

“Creating your blog should be fun as well as informative.  Creating posts that will get your reader interested can be done in a variety of ways.  Here is one of them!”

Now how did I do this?   Learn how to type upside down and backwards text

Here is an amazing video of  Google Tricks

To Your Success,

Bill Eager, co founder of bSocial Networks, a maker of software that helps social networking users market each other, estimates that there will be a many as 250,000 sites that call themselves social networks within a year, compared to about 850 today.

According to USATODAY, Social networks present an enormous opportunity — maybe the biggest in tech since e-mail. The sites have simplified and amplified connections between people online, creating a thriving ecosystem of small programs that let friends interact through games, greetings, video clips and more.

I don’t know about you, but to me that number is staggering not to mention daunting.  Are we expected to join all of these social Networks? When will we have time to sleep, take care of other aspects of our businesses? Be with our families and friends?

The reality is that people still do not really understand Social networking and will blindly follow people to join more and more of these networks.  People will stay for a while, they may make some friends, they might even fill in a profile of sorts and then they move on to the next one!

Is this what Social Networking is all about?

Here is a reality check -  Most people are really social Networking inept and it is time that we learned how to use social networks properly.

Here is a tip for you - You do not have to join every single social network out there!  You do not have to follow the crowd and join everything under the sun!

Through a fellow bloggers site at  rockuvme, I read some very down to earth common sense advice and was introduced  to a couple of videos that are well worth watching and taking heed of what is said.

Share these with your friends and let me know what you think.

To Your Success,

While surfing different blogs earlier today, I came across this site, WhiteYonder.com .  a very well laid out site by the way and I came across this article titled ” 8 Illusions”  I have to agree that number 7 is just incredible.

It got me thinking about illusions so I decided to do so looking into the subject  and started off looking at the Wikipedia for information:

“An optical illusion (also called a visual illusion) is characterized by visually perceived images that differ from objective reality. The information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give a perception that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source. There are three main types of illusion - literal optical illusions that create images that are different from the objects that make them, physiological illusions that are the effects on the eyes and brain of excessive stimulation of a specific type - brightness, tilt, color, movement, and cognitive illusions where the eye and brain make unconscious inferences.”

While I learnt a lot and enjoyed my time hunting down information about optical illusions, I decided that instead of reading about illusions, I would rather have some fun looking at them.

Enjoy yourself as I did looking at these wonderful optical illusions, sometimes we all need  a short break from our businesses and work to sit back and enjoy the many of life mysteries.

To Your Success,

When creating your free blog, if you have never blogged before, you are going to run across some words that may leave you feeling a bit lost.

To help make your blogging experience a little easier, here is a short list of some of the more common blogging jargon:

Post: Every time you put an update on your blog, you create a post. In typical computer jargon fashion, this noun can also be used as a verb: You can post to your blog. Posts are also sometimes called entries.

Comments: Blogs are often referred to as conversations, and it’s the ability of your readers to leave comments on each post you make to your blog that creates the feel of a conversation. Comments are usually time-stamped and identified by the author’s name and perhaps a link to their Web site or blog. On some blogs, comments are threaded so that readers can comment on other comments, but on most blogs comments are simply displayed chronologically.

Comment spam: Sad to say, spam is a problem on blogs just as it is in email. Comment spam, as you would expect, is left in the comments of a blog. It usually includes a few words and a link to a Web site. The point for the spammer is to get as many links as possible to the Web site, giving it higher search engine rankings.

Categories: Categories permit a blogger to subdivide content, putting posts about politics into one basket and posts about celebrities in another. Categorization helps readers read only what they are most interested in and is a good tool for those scanning a blog’s archives.

Trackbacks: Trackback technology helps bloggers link back to other posts on related subjects. Functionally it’s a little complicated: If you’re posting about something you’ve seen on another blog, look for the Trackback URL. Paste that URL into the allotted spot in your own blogging software, and the two pieces of blog software will communicate, building a link from the original post to yours (without the other blogger having to life a finger).

Trackback spam: Like comment spam, but done via Trackback.

Pings: There are several blogging tracking Web sites where you can search for other blogs and look for recent posts. If your blog software allows you to ping those sites when you post, that post gets included in the ping site’s index, potentially increasing your traffic.

RSS/Atom feeds: In the blogosphere, syndication is a big deal. With millions of blogs to read, many consumers use news aggregators, or readers, to pull in posts and read them, rather than visiting 150 blogs every day. RSS and Atom are two flavors of blog syndication.

Blogroll/lists: Ever noticed those long lists of other blogs alongside the posts in a blog? That’s a blogroll, a list of the blogs read by the blogger whose site you are on. Sometimes lists are also kept to recommend books and other media, as well.

News aggregation: Many blog software packages allow you to pull in and display the RSS or Atom feed of another blog. This is useful if you want to create a site with constantly updated content fed by blogs. For example, a blogger who posts about politics could pull in the feeds of other political blogs.

Moblogging: Moblogging is the short form of “mobile blogging.” Lots of blog software lets you post by e-mail from your phone, PDA, or anything else that allows you to send e-mails.

Blacklist: Blacklists are usually lists of URLs that have been identified as spam URLs, and that are therefore eliminated from comments and Trackbacks on your blog. With most blog software, the software company builds and maintains a common blacklist for all users to which individuals can contribute.

Captchas: Captchas are an additional security feature for commenting and user registration. By providing an image that includes letters and numbers, and by requiring the user to type in those letters and numbers, blog software can eliminate some of the comment and Trackback spam produced by robot programs.

URL Redirection: In an effort to render comment and Trackback spam ineffective, links included in comments and Trackbacks are tagged with the NOFOLLOW tag, which indicates to search engines that it shouldn’t be counted when tallying search engine rankings for a Web site.

Skins/Themes: Most blog software includes a set of pre-designed templates that give the blog a certain look and feel. These are called skins/Themes.

Post scheduling: Some blog software allows you to write posts and schedule them to be published at some point in the future. This is handy for vacations and holidays.

Bookmarklets: A bookmarklet is a link directly to the new post page of your blog software. If you add this small Javascript to your browser toolbar, it’s a shortcut to posting quickly.