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For my penultimate post this year, I’ve been inspired by something Chris Brogan published yesterday on his blog about The Visible Media Maker. It’s a great post about being a personality while sharing stories.

One of my main goals for 2010 with Online Business Adviser is to make it more personal. When I say personal, I’m talking about injecting not only the blog, but also my social footprint with more information that is specific to me as a person in an effort to start more conversations.

In looking to achieve the goal, I’ve outlined 7 things that I believe are beneficial to any online business owner who wants to be more personal and build their brand. Some of these I have been doing all along, and some I am yet to do, but all are activities that should be a sooner rather than later project.  Read more...

I’ve posted before about practical tips for generating traffic to your blog site, but wanted to talk further about some specifics that should see you lift your blog traffic.

Firstly is a numbered list of something. By far and away my most popular blog posts in terms of traffic have been around topics that begin with numbers – 27 People To Follow On Twitter, 3 Practical Tips for Traffic Generation, 4 Steps to Managing the Information Flood of the Internet etc. This isn’t a new thing, as I have often read it from many other bloggers, but it is certainly a great step in generating interest in your content. Why? People love lists.  Read more...