From time to time I’ve discussed on this blog managing multiple writers for my blog network, Blogtown Press. Mainly I’ve dealt with the odds and ends of finding, organizing, and paying bloggers to writer on one or many of my various blogs. Those articles are helpful but they haven’t really given tips on helping with …
Starting a Blog Network
Generating Content for Multiple Blogs
Content is king, you have to write content to get visitors, you have to write regular content… content, content, content. That’s pretty much the party line for any blogger worth his or her salt. Get more content, entertain your visitors and get more visitors. It makes sense. Why else would someone want to visit a …
Interesting Articles About Weblogs, Inc. Early Days
I’ve been doing a bit of researching on business models and plans for building an online media and entertainment company and stumbled across a few interesting articles about Weblogs, Inc.’s early days when Jason Calacanis was a pie in the sky dreamer it seems like. The article was found from this reporting and deals with …
You Really Need to Have an SEO Plan
One of the biggest things I’ve learned in building my blog network is that I should really listen to what I read. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve browsed a blog post that says “Follow these steps to sure fire win SEO,” or something like that. Even if these bloggers were just writing …
41 Links to Help You Start a Blog Network
As I said in my last article, I’d like to try my best to help others build their blog networks, and in doing so I’ve put together a little list of articles that I think might help some of you work your way towards a successful blog network. 1-5: Should you Start a Blog Network …
Marketing Your Blog(s) Can Be a Full-Time Job
Ever since I started hiring bloggers to blog for Blogtown Press I’ve been focusing my efforts on promoting and marketing the blogs within the network. I thought blogging was time consuming! Marketing and promoting blogs consists, in my mind, of two groups. You want to gain readers, and if you’re in it for a monetary …
Check out the First Winner Coconut Pic
The first winning coconut went out in the mail and here’s a sneak peak at the beauty. Straight from Hawaii to your doorstep, you could win it. All you gotta do is enter the contest! (PS all you have to do is write one post with a few links)
Blogtown Press WILL Ship Coconuts Worldwide!
This is an important update. Blogtown Press will now Ship Coconuts Worldwide!!! We’ve had several people interested in the contest but dissapointed that we only shipped to 4 countries. Well we checked again and the USPS will ship worldwide a Coconut, without the box, like a postcard to anywhere it ships! That’s great news to …
Sift through Post by Post Archives to Win Coconut
In an effort to make it easier for bloggers to enter the contest I’ve posted links to all the post-by-post Archives of each blog. These are the title and date archives so it should be super simple to create post to enter the contest. You can be blatant about the entry and say it’s a …
Link to a Coconut – Example Entries
Ok, for those of you who have emailed me regarding the contest and what the post needs to entail I say, not much. Just a simple post. If you’re one of the first 5 to enter the contest you can get a free PR5 link from this blog to yours active for at least two …
