So where does blog traffic come from, and how does this change over time? Looking at data from the Webbiquity blog, several trends are apparent. This B2B blog isn’t necessarily representative of all blogs of course, but the trends likely aren’t much different for many business blogs. What’s important here isn’t the specific results from this blog, but what those results say about how to get more traffic to your blog. Six conclusions that can be drawn from this graph: It takes time to build a blog audience. MORE >>

can’t tell you how many of my blog posts were directly inspired by morning emails from Godin and Brogan. Each newsletter, even if it’s “just” a blog-to-email newsletter, needs to be insightful, germane to the subject, and valuable. At the very least, you can use Feedburner as a way of offering up your blog posts as subscribable by email; or, if you’re really willing to commit to the newsletter as a method of keeping in touch, MailChimp seems to be the way to go these days; however, AWeber and Constant Contact seem to still have strong market share. MORE >>

If you’re like me (and if you’re not, read this anyway), you’re looking for ways to monitor social media and blog feeds without jumping around to multiple platforms.  We’re all busy, and am sure we have our own methods to monitor, share, and comment on the tweets, posts, blogs, and updates we receive each day.  First, my toolset: RSS Reader from Google. Google Chrome.  Accounts on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, and Google+. Gmail account to use Google’s Reader. Extended Share for Google Plus. LinkedIn sharing. The easy ones.  MORE >>

By now, most members of the inbound marketing community are probably aware that RSS exists (and if you don't, this blog post will help ). While this may be true, my guess is that many still aren't aware of just how versatile RSS can be. The good old RSS feed can be a lot more powerful than you might think. Sure -- it's a great way to keep your blog subscriptions all in one place for easy reading. 10 Helpful Marketing Uses of RSS Feeds. Subscribe to industry news sites/blogs to stay on top of industry trends and topics. Write about it! MORE >>

Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You. LinkedIn is a professional network built around one’s employment capabilities. People who use LinkedIn expertly, like Christopher S. Here are some thoughts on amping up your LinkedIn presence. The first horror show I see when reading other people’s LinkedIn profiles is that they’re written completely dry, as if robots are the only thing that will read them. LinkedIn has an official opinion on connecting up with others. business , linkedin , networking , socialmedia100 , socialnetworks. MORE >>