I am glad to inform you that Search For Blogging is now listed at Advertising Age’s Power 150 marketing blogs list. It’s current rank is 284, but my aim is to be in top 100 by the end of this year. Needless to mention, but Seth Godin’s blog is on the first place. You may click on the image above to see the Power 150 list. The list is updated everyday.
Thanks to Derek Semmler, I won a copy of Blog Blazers book. For more details about the book, you may take a look at my previous post 40 Top Bloggers Share Their Secrets in A Book
The timing was perfect. I think Derek arranged it so well that I received it on the Christmas and before the new year. He was so kind to sign the book for me. Thank you Derek!
The book is written by Stephane Grenier who owns FollowSteph.com. It covers 40 interviews with 40 different bloggers including Seth Godin, Jeff Atwood, Aaron Wall, Eric Sink, Yaro Starak, etc. It is quite interesting for me to read so many different blogging stories. I hope one day someone will write my blogging story too.
The good thing about the book is you learn what the top blogs all have in common. Also the bloggers share their biggest mistakes. There are some good food for thought in the book.
After reading a few interviews from the book, I understood that blogging is less about luck, and more about extra effort and common sense.
I strongly suggest you to pay $16.95, and order the book. Let the pros show you the way!
Links for bloggers
Blog Blazers Book
If you are looking for a gift to send your blogging buddies, you should consider the Blog Blazers, which brings you blogging secrets from 40 top bloggers including Seth Godin, Yaro Starak, and Aaron Wall.
You may find below the list of bloggers who were interviewed in Blog Blazers. You can also read the full bios of the bloggers.
Today I came across Seth Godin’s one of the most recent posts titled Leadership is now the strongest marketing strategy. I took below part from his post:
“It’s enough if the tribe you lead knows about you and cares about you and wants to follow you. It’s enough if your leadership changes things, galvanizes the audience and puts the status quo under stress. And it’s enough if the leadership you provide makes a difference.
Go down the list of online success stories. The big winners are organizations that give tribes of people a platform to connect. Go down the list of fashion businesses or business to business organizations. Same thing. Charities, too. Churches, certainly.
People want to connect. They want you to do the connecting.”
While I am reading Seth’s post, I realized that what we are doing with the new Bloghology Social Network is connecting bloggers and marketers in one platform. We are building Bloghology Tribe with it. It has potential to become big. The first two weeks results are very promising for the future.
P.S. : You may download a free copy of Seth Godin’s audio book Tribes from Audible. They are using the audio book as a freebie promotion. All you need is to register a free account.