Pimp Your Blog
Hello, peeps. Happy Friday. Or Saturday, if you’re in Australia, lucky bastards.
Since you’re all pimping your home business in my comments anyway, I thought I’d give you the opportunity to do it in a more public fashion. So:
Peach and her homies are writing a book about blogging and they want your submissions. Proceeds go to Warchild, and here are the details:
“We would like you to submit a written piece about something you’ve been through from any aspect of your life that you want to share. It can literally be about anything: your relationships, your past, a road not taken, being a parent, an illness or your regrets etc. We’ve called it “You’re Not The Only One” to reflect the camaraderie of blogging.”
Considering the recent strip blogging extravaganza, I thought some of you guys might be into this.
Next up we’ve got the Top Secret Project. Some of you have heard a little bit about this but not much because of the Top Secret Factor. Not anymore, y’all. A bunch of us have gotten together and created a new site called SproutWire.
“At SproutWire, you’ll be able to find the best, most interesting, already vetted small business article summaries and links from around the internet in one place every day.” (I totally stole that from Jon Fields. It may or may not be officially SproutWire-endorsed copy, but I liked the way it was said.)
Anyway, what this means to you is two things. One, follow this link if you want to get in on the beta (which of course you do).
Two, I am now required by my editor’s contract to pimp out cool blog posts on the topics of entrepreneurship, marketing, working from home, and all that jazz. Since I am an extremely busy and important person, I won’t have the time to find them all by myself SO I’m looking for your help.
If you have any cool links, either yours or someone else’s, that you’d like to pimp out on what looks like it’s going to be a pretty freaking popular news blog, bring it on. Email them to me at naomi@ittybiz.com, with PIMP MY BLOG in the subject line. I can’t pimp everybody, but I’ll do my best.
Oh, and go sign up so you’ll know when you’ve reached fame and fortune. Well, fame anyway.
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Thanks for the links (I ran into SproutWire the other day, too).
That book looks interesting… (thinks about making a submission, even though he’s very new at this)
Ayup, I’m on this one.
@ Brett - Um, considering the aforementioned triplet situation, I’m sure you can come up with something to say.
@ Naomi - that’s kind of the plan. I actually have a large portion of my book on it completed. So I guess I’ll go for it.
Thanks again for the link.
How lame is this? I have no problem pimping my shiznit when not asked. You tell me it’s now ok, and I get this immediate feeling of dread, like I don’t have anything of value to contribute. How f-ed up is that?
Synapses popping now - Time to go post.
@Naomi - Thanks for the links. I’m noticing IttyBiz tramsitioning from a marketing/WFH advice blog with the occational blog-social post, to being a blog about blogs - with the occaciaonal marketing/WFH post.
Whats up?
::crosses fingers and hopes comment sparks debate where by people visit dollarstackin.com and make rude comments and click on ads-n-shit::
talk about pimpin’…
@ M.P. - How very polite of you. IttyBiz doesn’t really have a focus. I got an email the other day, asking how long it took me to write a blog post. What solidified while I was responding was that the pieces that I busted my ass on to provide as much value as possible ended up:
a.) Not a lot of fun to write.
b.) Boring.
c.) Getting less traffic and comments than the fun stuff.
If I had to classify today, keeping in mind that the answer would likely change in a week, I’d say that IttyBiz is a blog for people who work from home, or who would like to. Sometimes instructional, sometimes very clearly not. Like Oprah is a magazine for women of a certain demographic, there are pieces that apply to all aspects of that demographic’s life - sex pieces and weight-loss pieces and spirituality pieces and book reviews and everything in between. By accident more than design, IB has become a place for work-from-homers (and their sympathizers) to hang out.
Regarding blogging, while this will never be a metablog, the one thing that the vast majority of my readers have in common is that they blog, either professionally or recreationally. Because of this, blogging and blog marketing tend to feature frequently in my post content.
I’ll go click on your ads now. :-)
@ Naomi,
I have to chime in as a faithful reader, and say that from a fan perspective, IttyBiz has a focus (for me) - it is always from the heart, it is funny, it is fresh. It makes me smile, every time. Good to the last drop (stop laughing, dammit).
The focus (for me) is honest and open thoughts from a really cool person. Which encourages me to get out here and do the same thing.
So I guess, it is also like you say, a place for people to hang out.
Saturday it IS! Whoohoo! LOVE being in Oz.
So, who’re your other Aussie readers? While I am happy to have only just found this blog, I am also sad I went without for so long.
Working from Home, small business, yadda yadda. You are an inspiration and Susan said you’re awesome and SproutWire is cool and I wanna blog more and have friends too. *pant pant*
Seriously, you rock, and I’m pleased I found you. Smooches from Perth, the ass-end of an ass-end continent.
@ Judd: hey compadre here is another Aussie that got sucked into this “hangout” not so long ago. My life without the daily dose of Ittybiz and all the comments is like going without coffee in the morning.
Arrrgh….speaking of the devil.
@ Naomi: thanks for the pimp offer and the very special hello to us Aussies (the nation hearts you). I’ve also run into SproutWire a couple of days ago and wait in anticipation on the launch.
I’m going to leave a pretty lame comment because it’s late and I just want to get notified with followups. I’m sure James will do enough blog pimping for the both of us in the morning.
I would love to contribute to the blog pimping… but well, my blog is in no way relevant to “entrepreneurship, marketing, working from home, and all that jazz” (unless sushi is related to “all that jazz”? Yeah, I didn’t think so. Hehe. :P ) and all the relevant blogs that I do read are by people who comment on here so are thus effectively pimped.
However if you are ever interested in the pimp-age of food blogs… ask me. I have plenty that I can pimp!
That book about blogging sounds fascinating! I think it would be a great thing to contribute to. I know I won’t contribute though, because I’ll think about what I might write about for a day or two, realize that I have homework and a paper to write, get to doing all that crud, and promptly forget about contributing to the book until the deadline for submissions has passed. I definitely want to buy one though… is it a possibility that you might post something about it once it is available for purchase?
@ Naomi - You know your blog rocks when people drop a comment just to be sure they can subscribe to all following comments and participate in the discussion. I am pleased to say that my efforts as Comment King have paid off for you. Please send payment via PayPal.
@ Judd - Canadian here. It’s all good. We’re a Commonwealth country too, so that’s like you guys being Canucks and us being Auz’s with different kinds of accents. Welcome.
I think the time for submissions for the blogging book are already closed.
Mine’s a health blog not to do with small business. My favourite blog about small business is Making Sales, Making Money - direct and down-to-earth advice and well written too. On bloggin I like Caroline Middlebrook - great advice (check out her commenting strategy article) and she hates hype almost as much as me.
Hey Naomi, congratulations on Sproutwire Beta Launch. I bet its going to be fantastic. Also I have a concern. I tried to signup for the beta version and got an email which had an attachment and nothing else on the message section. I tried opening the attachment but that didn’t work either. Any suggestions how can i get in there? I bet you can sense my desperation, I am sure it is awesome and can’t wait to get my eyes on it :-)
I like where you’re going with this blog, but you knew that.