What we learned at the SOBCon07 Conference in Chicago.

What didn't we learn? GOSH, we came back with so much knowledge, so many notes and so many new friends. Over the next couple weeks we'll be sharing new tools we discovered like VIDEO STICKY and THE Z LIST and THE GOOD BLOGS, as well as interesting blogs and bloggers we spent time with like Phil Gerbyshak of Make It Great, Terry Starbuckers Ramblings and Connie Reece and her wild Blogabillies - Scribblin stories and Livin Large!

We will be talking about ALL of the blogs and bloggers we got to spend time with, in the coming months. Hats off to Jason Alba who blogged the ENTIRE EVENT!

A discussion was held around the word blogger and the fact that it can have a negative meaning to some people. I think of a blogger as someone who decides to launch a weblog, and its true, ANYONE can do that, maybe we do need to separate ourselves somehow. Are they successful? Do they tire out? Is their blog interesting? Are they someone who blogs with no real direction or mission or passion about what they are doing?  Are they blogging in a vacuum?

As a blog starts to take shape, you begin to have a good idea about what you can offer the blogosphere. Is this something you can stick with and are passionate about? Can you keep things interesting and attract readers. Do you have a desire to grow your blog, share your blog, connect with others and learn?  At SOBCon07, David Armano suggested perhaps PERSONAL PUBLISHER or even PRODUCER is a better, more fitting term for us. As a personal publisher, we treat our blogs with respect. We handle them with great care. We put a lot of time, energy, and thought into every post. It's a business. It's a resume. It's about relationships. It's actually a lot like a pizza! We could be compared to chef's or pizza makers.

  

Think about the streets of New York City. Pizza by the slice everywhere! But who has the best pizza in New York City? Ask 10 New Yorkers, you'll probably get 10 different answers. It's all good, it's a subjective question. Some people like it with a lot of cheese. Some like more sauce. Some like sweet sauce, some like a more salty sauce. But the point is, every pizza maker tries to deliver the "best" pizza possible. They research their ingredients and experiment until they feel they have the right combination. The point is, as a producer, and as a personal publisher, we try to create something special people will like. A lot of love, energy, sweat and tears go into a serious blog. By comparison, beginner bloggers don't always do that.

We are so thankful and glad we attended the event and can't wait till next year! But most of all, we are thankful for destiny bringing us together with Liz Strauss of Successful and Outstanding Blogs, for without meeting her, our life of personal producing would not be going down this road it's currently on now. THANK YOU Liz!

More SOBCon07 info in the coming weeks!

OK- So here is proof how amazing the Internet is and the FREE search engine lift
available at your fingertips;

From time to time, I submit articles to places like E-Zine, Article City, and Go Articles.  Those sites have great page rank and search engine lift. In fact, most days if you GOOGLE my name in quotes,
I come up as an "expert author" on page one, slot one!

This company in the UK, TLM - The Large Monkey, found one of my articles I had submitted to one
of these sites. And they contacted me to get permission to use my article in their upcoming book,
Motivated Monkey.






The book features other authors like Jim Rohn,


Brian Tracy, Steve Chandler, Jack Canfield,


and ME!



Pretty impressive company! 


   A bit about  The Large Monkey -   "We create and sell unique Ebooks on a variety of subjects, books written by some of the worlds most well known and respected figures and by people like you, people
who have a story to tell. Our books have a minimal carbon footprint and we donate a massive 25%
of all profits to charity, much more than most other businesses.

Every book that we sell benefits one of the worlds most needing charities. From the environment
to helping the poor to saving endangered species. We will produce books dedicated to many
different causes."

The moral of the story - there are so many ways to spread your word on the Internet for free!
Take advantage of all the tools to promote yourself and/or your business and you could be in their next book "The Monkey Monkey" on entrepreneurialism to benefit The Red Cross!

Derrick Sorles
Helping You Build Better Business Faster in a Web 2.0 World
Strategic Business Coach and Consultant, Web 2.0 Strategist and Social Media Evangelist,
Blogger, Entrepreneur, and Speaker.

www.businessbloggingtips.com

www.networldingbusinessblogging.com

 

 

70 Million Blogs



120,000 new weblogs each day



1.4 new blogs every second


Technorati is known widely for its quarterly State of the Blogosphere reports, analyzing the trends
around blogs and blogging.

They  released their recent report this week. 70 Milion blogs out there now! Thats  about 120,000 per day or 1.4 blogs every second!

"Spam and splogs (spam blogs) continue to be a problem in the blogosphere, and there was a marked increase in splogs that coincided with the holiday season last year. Technorati has been tracking between 3,000 - 7,000 new splogs created each day, but there was a significant spike in splog creation during early December, when we tracked over 11,000 splogs created each day during December - a total of 341,000 splogs that we removed from our indexes during that period."

Other interesting notes - There are about 1.5 million posts per day, or... 17 posts per second.  Japanese the #1 blogging language at 37%, with English second at 33% , Chinese third at 8%  and Italian fourth at 3% .

I found this great instructional video online that is so step-by-step informative!

 

http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english