This isn’t another sales tip on how you should follow up an initial sale with a back-end off. Nope, this is more important and more personal.

Honestly, I wasn’t even going to post today; so much to do ya know.

However, I received an email today (Nov. 4th) that nearly knocked me off my seat…and a big bang that woulda been!

The following email is from Nick at romandock dot com, and that’s all the lead in it needs. Read the email and quickly see why I think Nick truly has what it takes…..

“You may or may not remember this, but on October 11 you left a comment on a post of mine inquiring about subscribing to romandock dot com via email. Well, I finally got that set up and the option is now available.

Sorry for the wait, I had a bunch of comments to sort through Congratulations, we have two contest winners!

1. Yan and his BloggingForBeginners blog for suggesting the “Most Popular Pages“, thanks Yan! (As you can see in the left box, that will go in as soon as I find a decent one…..Alex King’s no longer seems to be working properly.)

2. Wiehanne from WiehanneContest for the suggestionS of my RSS Subscribe Box & my Social Network buttons, thanks Wiehanne! (I didn’t know just how far below the fold my RSS really was until this…it was above the fold on my screen.)

Congratulations you two! You have until Friday the 24th to claim your prize. As a reminder, you can pick ONE of the following…..

A Site Review - (Click link to see exaclty what you will get if you choose this.)

It’s been said time and time again. Blog subscribers all over the ‘Net, whether by email or RSS, rant about this issue consistently, myself included.

And I make no apologies for it.

I am here now, one more (last?) time, as both a blogger and blog subscriber, to speak to ALL my blogging colleagues (i.e. Everyone with a blog), to say…..

Respond to Comments or Risk LOSING Subscribers!

Allow me to be brutally honest for a moment. You are NOT too busy. You’re really not. Seriously. I’m not kidding. Ask anyone.
For those that wish to dispute it, I’ll make it real easy for you. Multiple choice even…

1. You’re lying

2. You’re lazy

Those are in no particular order, so please pick the one that suits you best and leave it in the comments below. See what a swell fella I am?

Please don’t misunderstand. I’m all for fighting comment spam as much if not more then the next blogger. If you desire the use of a captcha or two, go for it. I fully support you.

For cryin out loud though people, use one that is CLEARLY VISIBLE.

I read and comment on a LOT of Blogs in the sphere and the pure disdain I have for those teeny tiny little question/answer captcha’s placed in amongst the other fields (name email URL) cannot be measured with todays technology.

A real PITA if there ever was one. Btw, for those that don’t realize, that’s PAIN IN THE ASS. Who’s brainchild were these?

Now I know the first silly question popping off all over, “If you have to fill in those fields anyway, how can you miss it?”

Answer 1: Easily. One click of the AutoFill button within the Google toolbar takes care of it.

I realize I just recently posted about another Marketing Contest, but no worries, this is not turning into a contest blog.

I only post contests that I feel are beneficial to your marketing efforts, and I think you’ll agree that CASH PRIZES are ALWAYS beneficial!

Mattaw from MoneyBites.com, a blog about how to earn online is giving a total of 75 to 3 lucky winners. 1st place 50, 2nd place $20, 3rd place $5.

It’s super simple to enter. Simply sign up to his RSS feed via email, write a blog post with at least one link back using the anchor text “how to earn online” and your done!

This money can very nicely be spent on many aspects of you marketing, such as Advertising, PPC, Domain Names, Web Hosting or whatever!

Never stop pushing forward!
Dennis

Hello All!

OK here we go. As I mentioned in my last post, a brand new feature here is the monthly post round-up. What this means is, at the end of each month I take the best articles from that month (decided by several factors) and link them all in one post.

So as not to duplicate myself too much here, read the last post to see WHY this is something ALL bloggers should consider doing…there are many benefits, both for the blogger and readers

Since this is the first one, combined with the fact that I was only able to get 7 posts up this month (8 including this one), I’ve decided to make this extra special…I’ll be picking posts all the way back to the beginning

Lets get started then, shall we? For our purposes here, I’ll be shortening some post titles. All links open in the same window. Read/comment and simply back-space back here

In my ever vigilant effort to make a clean looking AND user-friendly Blog for everyone here, I am trying one more plugin to try and get the combination of post snippets on-site, while having full feeds go through the feed.

if you recall, I first attempted the Full Feed plugin and it was a disaster. I then thought it would just be best to change the look of the Blog a bit, and publish full posts.

Neither you nor I liked that very much.

When suddenly…..on one of my blog commenting escapades I ran across Colin King, a true geek :-). A great guy, a real swell fella; seriously.

I was conversing my woes to him and he told me of (or reminded me of) the Optional Excerpt right here in the WP ‘write’ admin. I had seen it many times of course, but never knew what it was for.

Read to the end for a big link love fest for those who participate.

First and foremost, HAPPY MOTHERS DAY! to all Moms and expectant Moms out there, did you call yours? :-). This post is for all Bloggers far and wide that think it’s “just not happening”…it WILL.

Since I make it a point to tell everything that happens on or to this Blog, here goes.

Read to the end for a big link love fest for those who participate…

Those of you that have been with me since the beginning, know that this blog hasn’t been up all that long. I started 8 months ago in October 2007, although it doesn’t look it.

That may seem like a lifetime to some, but it really isn’t. Especially since I really didn’t start promoting much until the last couple months.

Hello all! If you’re a regular reader and especially if you have linked to any posts in the past, please read in its entirety and take the appropriate action. Thanks!

Due to my lazy - err - busyness in not posting one post, I’m now killing a couple birds here…

Regular readers, especially those of you that have been with me since the beginning may notice some weirdness afoot here on the blog. Notice the archives are a wee thin? October 2007 now no longer exists?

It may look odd for a while, feelings of deja-vu even. OK, Ill explain…..

I did start this blog and the whole idea behind it back in October, and oh boy was I ready to blog! POST POST POST! Was all I thought about…promotion be damned, just keep posting.

It don’t work very well that way does it. No.

As I wrote last, after reading much about how RSS subscribers hate having to click the link to read the full article, and even getting some personal requests for a full feed, I have complied After all, it’s all for the readers right? Yes!

After atempting the “full feed plugin” and failing miserably, I contacted Feedburner for some help. Their forum is now closed so I found their new “help” group (sigh) with a plea for help. The response I received was a little less then helpful, “If FeedBurner doesn’t receive your full post, there is no way for it to republish your full post.”

Umm OK, so much for that idea.

So as you can see here, I’ve decided to publish full articles right here in the open…no clicking for feed or straight blog readers!