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Making It Big

Trish — Tue, 13 May 2008 20:00:56 +0000

This week has been full of win, and it’s only Tuesday!

All the Cool Kids (and me)

My humble little blog TrishaLyn.com has been featured on Alltop.com under the Marketing category. Alltop is a digital magazine rack, per se. At each Alltop site, they display the latest five stories from 30+ sites on a single page, aggregating the information as a starting point. Alltop is a great way to expose yourself to blogs and websites relating to your interests that you may not have stumbled upon before. The interests range from women’s interests to sports, religion to geekery. In the marketing category my humble blog is mentioned amongst the likes of Andy Beal’s Marketing Pilgrim, Michael Martine’s Remarkablogger, and Seth Godin’s blog. I’d say that lives up to the “all the cool kids (and me)” slogan!

Guest Co-Host of AffiliateThing on WebmasterRadio.fm

Regular host Shawn Collins of AffiliateTip.com and co-founder of Affiliate Summit invited me on to co-host the weekly Affiliate Thing podcast in lieu of regular co-host Lisa Picarille of Revenue Magazine who can’t make it tomorrow. I’m excited as I know this is a well-produced, professional podcast broadcast on WebmasterRadio.fm, so I can’t wait. I’ll be recording from the pleasure of my own home in the morning and can’t wait to chew the affiliate fat with Shawn. I will say that I’m glad I’m not the one who has to edit it! it’s all recorded over Skype, so it’ll be great quality I’m sure!

Featured Expert on EzineArticles.com

That’s right, yours truly is also now a featured expert author on article site EzineArticles.com. So far I’ve submitted my Top 10 Things That Improve Work Ethic article and plan on submitting many more. If you’d like to see any of my former blog posts as articles on Ezine, drop me a line and let me know!

So that’s it! I feel like all this work I’ve been doing is paying off, and let me tell you, it’s a terrific feeling! I’ll be sure to report back on how the recording of Affiliate Thing goes tomorrow!

Explain the value to me

Trish — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:00:00 +0000

Okay, so there are some websites that I just don’t get. So this is a participation welcome post. Well, okay all of my posts are, of course, welcome to comments, discussion, and participation. But today we’re going to jump into web 2.0 and the world of user generated content!

There are a couple of biggun websites out there that I just don’t understand what the value of these pages are. On one hand I do understand the getting your name out there and a wide & varied web presence will generate traffic (however little). But on the other hand, there’s only one of me so where do I allocate my personal resources?

Here are the websites I just don’t get – someone explain it to me! Remember, this blog is dofollow so feel free to throw in a link for your trouble!

Squidoo.com – Isn’t this just a big affiliate link venue?
FriendFeed.com – This seems like a lot of redundancy since the people I’m inclined to follow on friendfeed I already follow through their channels that are linked. Make sense?
Technorati.com – Is this just scrapped content heaven? Is there any value to your Technorati authority?
Mahalo.com – What is SO much better about this cultivated human powered search engine?

Cribbed Content for March 7th

Trish — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 19:21:00 +0000

Instead of whining about how my Trackur free trial is over, I’ve collected a few stories for you from around the web. Or you know.. just from my feeds

Apparently Seth Godin invented the Everything bagel. If you want to talk bagels with me, let’s discuss egg bagels. mmmm tasty.
The affiliate marketing industry is all a flutter with a cat fight between n00b network Pepperjam & veteran Commission Junction. I think that if the accusations against CJ trying to strong arm affiliates & merchants are true… that’s pretty poor form. But I’m not really taking sides; I’ll wait it out and see how this unfolds.
Sam Harrelson of ReveNews hearts Twitter!
Andy Beal (I think I might just quote him weekly!) speculates that Digg is circling the drain and looking to sell. Personally I’m pretty disenchanted with Digg and I wouldn’t mind it biting the big one.

I’m personally very glad to have NOTHING planned this weekend so I can rest, relax, and get some housework done. Enjoy your weekend as much as I will mine!

I KNEW IT – Genius Level Ain’t Bad

Trish — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 21:17:00 +0000

Seth Godin understands me, without knowing it. He recently made a post about dumbing down to reach the average.

The thing is, when you dumb stuff down, you know what you get?

Dumb customers.

Too true! I recently made a post myself about my blog ranking at a Genius Level reading ability. I pondered whether or not it was a good thing, since the Melissa Donovan’s post (where I first saw the quiz) was proposing that it was good to rank lower so more people could understand you.

But that’s not how I write. It’s not the type of people who appreciate my writing. So why should I “dumb down” what I write in order to reach the average middleman? That was my stance, and I don’t mind saying that I feel justified that a major blogger like Seth sees things my way.

One of the comments on my previous blog noted that you should write the way you speak when blogging. That opens up the conversation. I completely agree with that, and the thing is… I do speak this way. Which is why I write this way. I need not apologize for my love of grammar and syntax!

2007 REALTORS® Conference & Expo is NEXT WEEK!

Trish — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:43:00 +0000

The games are about to begin! That’s right, next week is the 2007 National Association of REALTORS® Conference & Expo at the Sands Expo Center in Las Vegas. PsPrint will be there in full force at booth 2740 in the NAR Partner Pavilion. Stop on by and participate in our great giveaways for an iPhone, some wine, or a Visa Gift Card. We’ll also be offering a 30% Off show special discount for any orders placed at the show.

I’m super excited for this show, and not because it’s in Las Vegas since I was just there a few months ago. This is my first massive trade show, and I’m stoked to be representing our company and attending some really great seminars. The two that I’m the most excited about are on Tuesday and Friday. Tuesday afternoon there is a seminar given by Seth Godin, author of Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, and a great blog that I subscribe to (speaking of Seth speaking[heh]). Friday at the close of the show there’s another presentation being given by Scott Bedbury, marketing genius behind Nike’s “Just Do It” campaign and Starbucks’ marketing campaigns.

There are just so many learning opportunities for me at this conference, not only in the way of marketing but also networking and trade shows. I hope to really knock the ball out of the park on this one. Unfortunately we’re also working on some changes to our affiliate program over here, and that all has to be postponed until we return from the show on the 19th. But those changes will be exciting as well in their own right!