January 7th, 2009

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Bring Donny Back

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Well I finally found a little bit of information on Donny Deutch’s show “The Big Idea”.  It appears that the show has been put on hiatus because of the economy.

Gee, that makes sense.  Take the one show on TV that applies to all self-employed small business owners and remove it.  Heck, small business only makes up, what, 70% of the economy?  Small business owners don’t need the encouragement in times like this, right?

Geez.

C’mon, CNBC.  While I didn’t necessarily agree with the path the show had taken recently, I’m certainly not happy to see it go.

There is a petition, although I don’t think it’s getting much press.  Plus, the letter they ask you to print out and send to the CNBC execs isn’t exactly polite.  I say go ahead and sign the silly petition, and then write your own heartfelt letter.  You can catch more flies with honey…

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Out of Creative Blog Post Ideas?

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

From time to time we endure slumps where we can’t think of anything to blog about.  Every writer has ‘writers block’ and it’s no fun.  If you can’t think of anything to write, let me help.

My regular readers know I’m a fan of Google alerts, and here’s another great usage.

First, a little background.  Yahoo! Answers is a great service that lets people ask questions about anything, and other users submit answers to their question.  And when I say questions about anything, I mean anything.  Which is great – there is lots of content there that we can use.

So in your Google alerts account, set up an alert for the following:

site:answers.yahoo.com keyword

keyword should be replaced with an industry-related word or phrase that people would use in their questions that applies to you.  For instance, if you are a Missour Wine Club (cheap plug), you’d likely use ‘wine’ or even ‘wine’ and ‘missouri’.  Now anytime a question is posted that uses the word ‘wine’ in it, Google will automatically email you a link to the question.

Watch over the questions, reword and use the appropriate ones for your site.  If one person is looking for an answer to that question, there are probably hundreds more looking, too.  Why not get those visitors to your website and show how much of an expert you really are?

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