Business Blogging - How to Build A Better Blog

Social Media with Curves: Battle of the Sexes

I'm happy to announce that Patsi and I be speaking at the 2009 Social Media Telesummit, an 8 day virtual event taking place entirely over the phone January 21-30, 2009.

To celebrate the launch of the Telesummit, the host, Leesa Barnes, is holding a 2-hour preview event called Social Media With Curves.

She's invited some of the 2009 Social Media Telesummit speakers to give their answers to just one question:

"Are women changing the social media landscape?"

The women provide their feedback on December 9th @ 8pm EST and the men weigh in on December 16th @ 8pm EST.

I'd love you to join us as we discuss this topic. Register your spot now for this lively debate.

And don't forget to use the coupon code to get $70 off the tuition. Here's the code: SMWC08

As Leesa would say, "Here's to your social media success!"

Alltop.com is where you find blogs in your niche

On every teleseminar we present, with every client for whom we set up a blog, the first thing we tell people is that you need to be reading blogs in your niche. The next question usually is: how do I find blogs in my niche?

There are many blog directories you can search, like Technorati which indexes over 100,000,000 blogs. Or Google's blog search feature.  And, there's Alltop.com.

Alltop.com is the brain-child of Guy Kawasaki (author, speaker, humorist, venture capitalist). The site bills itself as an "online magazine rack" of popular stories.  They aggregate the top blogs on hundreds of niche topics:

We help you explore your passions by collecting stories from “all the top” sites on the web. We’ve grouped these collections — “aggregations” — into individual Alltop sites based on topics such as environment, photography, science, Muslim, celebrity gossip, military, fashion, gaming, sports, politics, automobiles, and Macintosh. At each Alltop site, we display the headlines of the latest stories from dozens of sites and blogs.

So, if you're looking for blogs about Cheese or Romance Novels or Leadership, you'll find a comprehensive list to explore, plus everything else in between. This blog was even listed in the Blogging category!

Think your blog should be included? You can submit it to Alltop for consideration.

Before you add your blog, check out this interview with Guy Kawasaki on Marketing Voices, my favorite marketing podcast.

Increase Sales with Social Media - December 5 in San Diego

Meet Denise Wakeman aka The Blog Squad, in San Diego...

Learn how to unleash the power of Social Media Marketing to increase your sales from leading experts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Blogging, Social Bookmarking and more!

If you are not taking advantage of what some experts are calling the Social Media Revolution, then you are missing out one the most important Internet phenomena since e-mail.

Discover time-tested strategies that you can start using right away to create your own social media marketing plan. Want more sales? Then attend this event and find out how.

If you're looking to get started using social media marketing to increase your sales, but didn't know where to go, now's your chance.

David Carleton has put together a live "crash course" that will give you everything you need to know. Introducing the Increase Sales With Social Media event of 2008.

Click Here to Learn More and Register

This live workshop is being held in sunny San Diego, California on Friday December 5.

You'll discover tips, techniques and tactics that you can use the very next day to launch your own social media campaign.

Just take a look at the line up of speakers: