Meme Racking

Yep, the memes have been racking up for a bit. It seems I get tagged for one every week. Since I write 5 posts a week, participating in all of them would take up about 20% of my content. That’s a little much. I like participating in them. I also like efficiency. So I thought I’d save … Read more

Lost In January. No.

I’m in a jam. A big, big jam. And as I sit here thinking about it, I realize that nothing short of a full-scale riot can get me out of it. I guess I better start at the beginning … I watch about 5 or 6 hours of tv a week (manic, I know). Mostly … Read more

Internet Marketing … Go Ahead … Experiment

I like to try different things and see what sticks. Most marketing tactics don’t give you rapid viral results. Those little gems are always found sparingly, and a lot of times “going viral” just happens by chance … you reach a few key influencers and everything rockets up from there. Zoom! The only way to … Read more

An Ebook Marketing Study

Since I first started Zoomstart I’ve thought of a number of things I’d like to do to add some value to the site. I’ve had some great success in the past with free downloadable resources. A flash measurement converter I put together was picked up by an Italian PC magazine. And I recently got an … Read more

5 Steps To Becoming A Blogging Warrior

I thought I’d do some blogging about blogging. I sat staring at the screen for a few minutes. And nothing happened. Zip. Zilch. Nada. I got nothing. The problem: I really didn’t know what to write about. I needed an angle. Maybe I needed to appreciate my readers? Maybe I needed to talk about my … Read more

Getting Creative Fuel

Exercise your brain. It’s easy to get burned out if you do the same thing the same way at the same time every same day of the week. But that’s the beauty of the internet. It’s endless. And it’s full of endless ideas, large and small, that can all throw a little fuel on your … Read more

Branding Your Blog. Does Your Blog Have A Greeter?

Whether you’re blogging for love or money, ultimately you want people to read what you write and you want your readership to grow. To help build your readership you need to be memorable. You have to build a brand. And that brand is you. Yes, you. There are a number of elements that go into … Read more

Smart Topics Around The Web

On business, the net and whatever, here are some posts around the web I enjoyed in the last couple days. They’re worth checking out … Garr Reynolds has a post with great tips for increasing the signal and reducing the noise of your powerpoint presentations at Presentation Zen. The before and after pics really illustrate … Read more

Floating Through Cyberspace

The last few weeks I’ve been floating through cyberspace and visiting many different blogs. It’s amazing how much great stuff people are writing and how many new insights I’ve gotten on a lot of things. So I started compiling a list of bookmarks of blogs that I want to check in on regularly. At the … Read more

How Search Engines Implode; The Portal Trap

Blame it on Wall Street. Blame it on evolution. Popularity. Blame it on whatever you want. Sooner or later every search engine stops being a search engine and becomes a portal. And then it dies. Remember when Yahoo was THE search engine on the internet? No longer. Remember Infoseek? Gone. Could the same thing happen … Read more