Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 18, 2009 in
Barack Obama,
Blog,
Blog Comments,
Blog marketing 
Ask not what Obama can do for you, ask what can Obama do for your blog?
Love him or hate him, think he can do our US economy any good or not, there is one thing for sure, people and companies are cashing in on Obamanomics in a big way.
MSN Money Blog contributor Todd Harrison’s post(written by Minyanville Contributor Tal Pinchevsky) Obama swag stimulates economy shows a few examples of companies making it big and riding the “Obama is good for our bottom line” wave. Companies such as The New York Times, Pepsi, Coca Cola, Banana Republic and the list goes on.
With sold out copies of news papers, logo changes and even font following these are just a few examples. Last I looked Twitter listed him as having by far the largest following (though that is not an actual monetizer just yet but it is capital in tweetland)
Get yourself to start thinking out of the Oval and think about how you too can monetize your blog because of this history making president. I am sure he would be the first to say thank you for doing your part to stimulate our economy.
Ask yourself in what way can I tie into this trend with my blog and make it pay?
If nothing else he may add a few new readers to your blog just because you wrote a halfway decent post and used his name and maybe his picture…with a US flag 
So put a pic of the prez in front of you and ask him to pony up for you and your blog.
Tags: Barack Obama, Blog, economy, marketing, monetizer, money, Obamanomics, Pepsi, president, Todd Harrison, tweetland, twitter
Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 6, 2009 in
Blog,
Blog Comments,
Idea Farm 
Coach Mark
As I make my rounds to blogs I am reading recently I came to a few conclusions about commenting and have written 13 of them out for you to give some thought to.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- You will see the post from other sets of eyes-points of view- and this will expand your thinking about the authors effective ways to connection of the ideas to the readers.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- Comments are the second plot of land on the Idea Farm.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- Top rated bloggers visit other top rated blogs and comment, this is a way to see how they comment themselves.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- Other top rated bloggers that visit top rated blogs will read your comments and you will get noticed.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- You will see how the author’s ideas are viewed by his/her peers.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
- It is a good study in brevity. Saying the most with the least, like Twitter.
- It is easier to make a comment about a very well crafted, researched and thought out post than to go to all that work yourself.
What do you find yourself beyond the normal, hey I have a link now on a PR-X blog, good for me?
Bonus for you. If you are not commenting on blogs often and want a place to start, here and now sounds like a good idea to me.
Tags: Blog, Blog Comments, Learn how to blog
