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Welcome to the January 5, 2009 edition of linkedin bloggers.  I think this is the biggest/longest one we’ve had yet!  So good to see so many people participating.  Please do make sure you visit the blogs linked below and encourage our contributors.  All participants are members of Linkedin.com and write blogs.

I’m looking for hosts for this year from March through to December – so if you’re interested, please get back to me.

Brian Terry presents 5 Powerful Ways To Instantly Jump Start Your Article Marketing posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “Article Marketing is the process of distributing information online that proves your expertise within your niche market. Article Marketing also helps you build 100’s of inbound links for your website that help you attract more quality traffic which lead to increased sales and revenue.”

CMOE presents CMOE Contest Giveaway – STARTS TODAY! posted at Teamwork, saying, “CMOE is a world renown business coaching center and they just opened up a new contest to help motivate people to become familiar with their resources. Win Amazon cash and a set a CMOE’s business coaching books.”

SEO Genius presents Blogging | 7 Factors that determine a blogs success posted at SEO Tutorials – SEO Tips and Tricks – Marketing Articles, saying, “This article takes a look at what makes a blog a success, determining the main factors which make a blog a success.”

Thomas J. West presents Flute Teaching for the Non-Flutist posted at Thomas J. West Music, saying, “Unless flute was your major instrument, it is likely that your ability to demonstrate proper flute embouchure to a student is limited. The best way to learn, of course, is to pick up a flute with your students and learn along with them. If you have a music education degree from a creditable institution, you most likely had the woodwind methods class that gave you a taste of playing the instrument yourself. You probably don’t have enough clock time on the instrument to develop much tone or control of the flute, however.”

Susan Tatum presents Business Website Development – Testing and Measuring | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Brian Terry presents Blogging Your Way to Big Traffic posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “Having a blog means one thing: in order for you to be successful, you need to be able to generate a constant stream of traffic to your blog. You need to have traffic; otherwise, you’ll be getting nowhere with respect to your goals. So how can you blog your way to big traffic?”

Brian Terry presents 5 Essential Search Engine Optimization Tips To Increase Your Website Ranking On Search Engines posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “If you are selling products on a website, then search engine optimization (SEO) becomes a very important part of your web business. An optimized website tends to have higher page ranking on search engines. Naturally, the website also receives larger volumes of traffic directed through search engines. The more traffic your website gets, the more business or sales you are going to make.”

Jackie Nees presents It’s Not Who You Know – It’s Who You Used to Know posted at Virtual Girl – Virtual World.

Terence Kierans presents How to Stay in Business—When the Sky Falls In posted at CVS Blog.

Janet Barclay presents Are You in it for the Long Haul? posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay, saying, “Do you see your business as a temporary source of income, or is it your career? The answer to this question will impact on nearly everything you do!”

SEO Genius presents Marketing Articles | 12 Ways to bring in targeted and untargeted traffic posted at SEO Tutorials – SEO Tips and Tricks – Marketing Articles, saying, “12 Ways of increasing traffic both for the short and long term to your blog. Using these 12 key strategies you’ll increase traffic forever.”

Tim Tyrell-Smith presents Do You Have a Job Search Strategy Or Are You Just Spinning? posted at Spin Strategy™ – Tools for Intelligent Job Search, saying, “My linked in profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/timtyrellsmith My blog is about a new job search strategy, tips and the psychology of search.”

Craig S. Kiessling presents West Bank Marketing Genius | CSKnet posted at CSKnet.

Andrea J. Stenberg, The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur presents 7 Ways to Use Twitter For Fun & Profit posted at The Baby Boomer Entrepreneur by Andrea J. Stenberg, saying, “Ever wondered how to use the microblogging site Twitter.com as a marketing tool? Andrea J. Stenberg shares the top 7 ways she uses Twitter. Check out Andrea’s LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/andreastenberg”

Raymond presents Where Is The Safest Place To Save Or Invest Your Money? posted at Money Blue Book.

Sheila Scarborough presents Put a fork in it, the press release is (almost) dead posted at Every Dot Connects, saying, “How to use your social media network to get the word out about your event or business, rather than overpriced press releases.”

Brian Terry presents 3 Major Keys To Online Wealth? posted at Big Yellow Blog of Turbo Marketing Secrets, saying, “In all that I’ve learned so far in my studying of what it takes to create wealth online is that there are a “lot” of keys you need to understand how to use.”

Andy presents Do search engines like your Web site? posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Between 75% and 98.8% of visitors to Web sites come from searches made at search engines. If you’re going to get high levels of traffic – and hence the levels of ROI you’re looking for – it’s very important that the search engines can access all the information on your Web site.”

Anne Maybus presents Does viral marketing work? posted at The Tall Poppy, saying, “A great example of the way viral marketing can work and things we can learn from it. http://www.linkedin.com/in/amaybus”

Sandy Naidu presents Publicity Tips For Women Owned Business – Starting Up A Publicity Business – Business Idea Entrepreneur | Interviews With Successful Business Owners posted at Interviews With Business Moms.

Andy presents Video – Use Blog Carnival & get FREE Targeted Traffic posted at Personal Hack, saying, “How to explode your search engine rankings and get lots of extra traffic to your website for free.”

Anya Portnik presents Now is the time for sales heroes posted at Gavin Ingham.

Dustin Woodard presents LinkedIn Humor posted at Web Connoisseur, saying, “Linkedin profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/woodard”

Brian Terry presents 4 Great Ways to Explode Your Article Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “The idea of building your online business via article marketing has been around for ages. Even before the Internet it was used by publishers to get free content from contributors in exchange of free advertising.”

Andy presents How Boost Sales And Boost Profits Effortlessly | Personal Plug posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Nearly all web marketers squander their time hunting one trend to another. Be it SEO, social media, press releases etc. Obviously, I am not saying those techniques are completely ineffective. If accomplished aptly and in the correct situation, they are all vastly valuable. But without the proper basis, they are basically that – marketing processes. They do not earn any sort of earnings without this skill.”

Simon Stapleton presents The SimonStapleton.com Cancer Charity Fundraiser : SimonStapleton.com posted at Career & Personal Development for CIOs, Technical Professionals and Self-Professed Geeks, saying, “So until the end of this month I am going to help Cancer Research charities by giving $1 for every Digg and Stumble of my site and 50 cents for every comment left!”

Andy presents Shared Website Hosting – The Pros And Cons posted at Personal Plug, saying, “For people looking to host a website the most popular and cost effective choice is usually shared online webhosting. Shared online webhosting offers multi platform website solutions for many websites shared online webhosting is the ideal solution.”

Sarah Scrafford presents 100+ Free Open Courseware Links for Web Designers posted at eLearning Gurus.

Susan Tatum presents Are Prospects Searching for You Online? posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Andy presents Tip On Writing A Feature Article – For Online Success! posted at Personal Plug, saying, “The No.1 challenge of all marketers is getting targeted traffic and targeted paid traffic is rarely cheap. You all know that Adwords costs are skyrocketing these days just like oil prices and it is getting harder to make money using PPC.”

Janet Barclay presents The Importance of R&R posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay, saying, “How much time do YOU spend working and playing? Please answer this very short survey and I’ll share the results in a future blog post.”

Wayne John presents 10 Cool Create an Avatar Web Sites posted at Wayne John, saying, “What web site are these people visiting to create these cartoon styled avatars? I found a mess of them, and tried each one out. If you are looking for a new look on the web, this is a great starting point.”

John W. Furst presents Todays Lesson: Burying BlogRush Syndicate posted at E-Biz Booster Blog, saying, “It started out with a big, big rush around September 15th 2007. Now it’s history, but don’t miss the one important lesson…”

Raymond presents How To Become A Millionaire and Get Rich In 10 Steps posted at Money Blue Book.

Mark Montgomery presents The Credit Crunch and Financial Aid: What Will It Mean for College Admissions? posted at Great College Advice.

Andy presents Top 5 Tips On Designing An Seo Friendly Website posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Getting high rankings in major search engines is essential for maximizing your visibility online and growing traffic to your small business website. More and more small businesses are realizing that the best way to reach prospective customers is through search engines like Google.”

isabella mori presents simplicity and the internet posted at change therapy, saying, “an article a propos to the topic of this carnival. how many online connections can we sustain?”

Brian Terry presents Traffic vs. Sales Conversions – Which Is Better? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “This is a question I get time and time again, “how do I generate more traffic to my website?”. The problem is and it’s what most people miss out on is it’s not just about the traffic.”

Kevin Dawson presents The 10 Commandments of Direct Marketing #2 – Your USP posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “Value of Unique selling proposition”

Andy presents How To Avoid The Big Newbie Affiliate Trap posted at Personal Plug, saying, “One of the best ways to make an enormous amount of cash on the Internet is by selling your very own product. The reason it’s the best way is because every one that you sell, you will get 100% of the profits.”

Brad Trnavsky presents Can the best sales people become the best sales managers? – Sales Management 2.0 posted at Sales Management 2.0 – Featured Blog Posts, saying, “A great post with substancial comments about sales people and the transition to management. My linkedin URL is: http://www.linkedin.com/in/bradtrnavsky”

hank presents Dream More, Work Less posted at My Investing Blog.

Ian Richardson presents How to create and run an ezine for profit, Part 1 posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is the first in a 3 part series of articles I have written on creating and running an ezine for profit.”

Ian Richardson presents How to create and run an ezine for profit, Part 2 posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is part 2 of a three part series on how to create and run an ezine for profit.”

Anthony McCune presents The Reward For Being Loyal To Stan Bunting Is Not Getting Paid posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

Anthony McCune presents John’s View In New York City (Borough of Manhattan), New York, USA posted at What I See Out My Window.

Anthony McCune presents PRN PAIN posted at The Vanity Of It All.

Anthony McCune presents Multiple Strategies Are Incorporated To Deter Drunk Driving – Installment 4 Of 5 posted at Stark County, Ohio News And Views….

Cindy King presents Culture Changes How Brains Work posted at Cindy King, saying, “Businesses targeting broad international audiences with one website need to pay particular attention to the images and visual perceptions of their websites. And this is part of the reason why country-specific websites provide stronger marketing.”

Cindy King presents Review Your Product For More International Sales posted at Get International Clients.

Cindy King presents International Article Marketing posted at Cindy King, saying, “Visibility Is Not Marketing. The internet does provide an opportunity for international visibility. But people still try to have an international business without any business activities.”

Brian Terry presents 5 Red Hot Tips To Effective Forum Marketing posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “You’re NOT allowed to advertise or market directly through your forum posts, this is seen as spamming the forums. It’s a “surefire” way to get banned from ever posting to them again. Here’s the secret to highly effective forum marketing…”

Ian Richardson presents 5 Ways to Make Your Website Sticky posted at Make Everything EzyAs123, saying, “This is an excellent article on 5 effective ways to make your website sticky.”

Andy Birol presents A Small Business Owner’s Prayer For Obama posted at Birol’s Blog, saying, “A Small Business Owner’s Prayer for Obama”

Andy presents Network Marketing Business – Secret To Succeeding With A Small Business Opportunity posted at Personal Plug, saying, “There is a distinct difference in small business opportunities today and those of previous eras. What is it? Simply put, the internet. Today, small business opportunities on;line are more popular and pursued than those off line.”

greg Group presents A Social Media Blueprint for Your Business – Associated Content posted at Associated Content.

Wayne John presents One Simple Method to Keep Visitors on Your Site posted at Wayne John, saying, “One method I use to help keep visitors on my site is by creating my hyperlinks so they open a new window when they are clicked.”

Diana Freedman presents How to Makeover your Linkedin Profile posted at U Stand Out.

Kevin Dawson presents The Important Art of Slogan Writing posted at Kevin Dawson’s Copywriting & Traffic, saying, “The importance of a good slogan”

Anthony McCune presents Thinking Of Starting A Business? The Top 10 Tips posted at The Lives and Times… of Anthony McCune.

Bhupendra Khanal presents Entrepreneurs : Don’t Do an MBA posted at Analytics Bhupe, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/khanalbhupendra”

Andy presents Seo And Website Design For Small Company posted at Personal Plug, saying, “Some people are too tired to do the thinking and will opt to go with the flow whatever is the trend, be it on fashion, sports and even with businesses without even thinking what it is for. Most businesses find themselves in the need of providing websites for their company and/ or products because everybody else does. If you are one of these people, you may now start knocking your head for a very expensive mistake of not knowing what you do.”

Diana Freedman presents Before Networking on LinkedIn, Makeover Your Profile posted at U Stand Out, saying, “LinkedIn is a powerful tool for networking if you know how to utilize its features. But before you do, it’s important to have a well-written profile that fully explains your work experience.”

Diana Freedman presents Building Your LinkedIn Network posted at U Stand Out, saying, “Once you write a strong LinkedIn profile, it’s time to start building your network. Start by inviting people you know, getting your link in the search engines, and getting quality recommendations. Then you’ll be ready to branch out into the vast LinkedIn networks.”

Wayne John presents Recursively populating a TreeView controls TreeNode collection posted at Wayne John, saying, “Every now and then you come across a scenario where a Treeview control is the best solution for presenting a hierarchical view of data. How do you populate the tree? A recursive routine is what you are looking for perhaps (at least, I haven’t run into any other tree scenario where a recursive routine was not used).”

Jeff Rose presents 401k Tips: What Not To Do posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrosecfp”

Ralph Jean-Paul presents How To Become a People Person posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, ““All things being equal people will do business with people they like. All things not being equal, they still will. Learn to become a people person and become better in relationship, leadership, and influence in every part of business and life.””

Andy presents Seo Black Hat Marketing Techniques – Black Hat Is Back Increases Profit! posted at Personal Plug, saying, “If you are like most people who are feeling the cold crush of fear caused by the unrelenting financial catastrophes slinking around you right at every turn, then this may be the most important information that you will ever read.”

Raymond presents Credit Card Offers For People With Bad Credit Or Poor Credit History posted at Money Blue Book.

Brian Terry presents The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic | Big Marketing Secrets Blog posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “I’d like to welcome you to The Beginner’s Guide to Overnight Traffic™ where I’m going to teach you “Seven Steps to Getting Massive Traffic Using Google™ AdWords™”.”

Kara-Leah presents Why writing a communications strategy matters – even for a yoga website posted at Prana Flow NZ, saying, “A website is a way to communicate, and if you’re running your own website you could benefit massively from writing a communications strategy for your site. Simply a plan of attack that articulates your key messages, audience and how you’re going to reach them, a strategy is something that anyone can write. Join communications professional K-L Grant of Prana Flow NZ as she leads by example and puts together a communications strategy for her yoga website.”

Janet Barclay presents How an Internet Marketing VA Can Support Your Social Networking Activities posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay.

Wayne John presents Modifying Your Blogger Header The Blogger Way posted at Wayne John, saying, “A common thing you’ll find when you start blogging is that you’ll want to make changes to your template. If you use the Blogger blog system, it can be easy or extremely difficult depending upon what you want to do. This post will show you where to go to modify your header as well as some advice as to how to approach the issue of modifying your header image if you choose to do things yourself.”

Mark Montgomery presents Elements of a Good College Fit, Part One: Academics posted at Great College Advice, saying, “Finding the right college is like finding a good pair of shoes. You have to know what you need. You have to know what you like. And you have to shop around.”

Tushar presents A List of 100 Top Directories posted at TUSHARVICKKIE, saying, “Directories are an important way to obtain a valuable link back to a website. Directories are not maintained by software tools, or run by search engine spiders, but rather Human Editors, which makes them unique. Now continuing from the last post, here one can find the list of top 100 web directories. Here is the list of top 100 web directories.”

Wayne John presents Using Social Submitter to Promote Your Posts posted at Wayne John, saying, “With the number of social sites popping up each week, I’ve been pondering how one might start using these sites to help promote your own site without becoming buried by the sheer number of them.”

Wayne John presents Sorting Generic.List Items posted at Wayne John, saying, “Great example of sorting a Generic.List collection of objects and a class that can be reused in future projects to sort a collection of custom objects.”

Prashant K Shukla presents SEO and Meta Tags | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “SEO and Meta Tags – Meta Tags play significant role in SEO and if we take utmost care in building these tags, result would be the perfect optimization of our website.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Site Indexing – Great Eight Tips | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “Site Indexing – The most effective SEO technique is to index the pages of new website. There are lot of important issues, one should take care. We are providing a simple guide steps to help you in this regard.”

Prashant K Shukla presents Search Engines or Web Directories | My Smart SEO posted at Prashant K Shukla, saying, “After you have built a website and optimized it by tuning its meta tags to the best, it is the time to get it submitted to major search engines and directories. So, that your site gets indexed by the search engines and the directories. There are lot of confusions in submission to search engines and web directories.”

Brian Terry presents How To Profit Online Without Selling Or Referring? posted at Big Marketing Secrets Blog, saying, “A big question about internet marketing is ”how can one make a significant amount of money without buying or selling or doing anything concerning referals, etc””

Robin Bal presents People Giving Up Pets As Economy Falters posted at Fortune Watch, saying, “Americans are giving up their dogs and cats to animal shelters in growing numbers as the emotional bonds between people and pets get tested by economic ones.”

Cindy King presents Christmas Buffling In Britain posted at Cindy King, saying, “An example of business waffling. This time it is in a Christmas setting.”

Get International Clients presents What Is International Multichannel Marketing? posted at Get International Clients, saying, “Are you seriously committed to developing your international markets?”

Wayne John presents Using Images For Your Social Links On Blogger Posts posted at Wayne John, saying, “You’ve more than likely seen images used as well as text links for social bookmark links on many different blogs and web sites. Using images for your social links will add a little more flair to your Blogger posts. Not only that, using images will save a little more space than the textual name of each service will, in most cases using images will also be more pleasing to the eyes.”

LinkedIn and/or Business

Susan Tatum presents Nine Ways to Know It’s Time to Expand Your Marketing | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Nara presents Surviving Marital Infidelity – Signs of Infidelity » Emotional Infidelity – Emotional Infidelity: A Love Affair Or Just Friends? posted at Surviving Infidelity, saying, “How to tell whether they are just friends or if it’s something more serious”

Ralph Jean-Paul presents Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions posted at Potential 2 Success, saying, ““”Start sticking to those New Year’s Resolutions by learning what resolutions really are, why some resolutions don’t work, and how to follow through on them.”"

Susan Tatum presents Making Marketing Happen – Are Baby Steps Better? | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Jeff Rose presents Four Options With Your 401k When Changing Jobs posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrosecfp”

Susan Tatum presents Simplify Your Marketing – Take Aim | Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing posted at Technology Marketing by Tatum Marketing.

Janet Barclay presents Planning for 2009 posted at From the Desk of Janet Barclay.

Raymond presents MonaVie Acai Berry Juice Scam posted at Money Blue Book.

Jeff Rose presents Where Theres A Will, Theres A Way posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “www.linkedin.com/jeffrosecfp”

Jeff Rose presents How Much Should Retirees Save For Health Care? posted at Jeff Rose, saying, “www.linkedin.com/jeffrosecfp”

Vickie Sloderbeck presents A Day in the Life of Your Husband posted at Joyful Journey Productions, saying, “LinkedIn profile address: http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_side_pro”

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