Jan 6, 2012 Posted by Brian Monahan

Blog Jumping

One of the best ways to grow is to expand your circle of influence.  A “circle of influence” is  a phrase used to describe the people around you.  The world wide web and social media has given us the opportunity to expand our “circles” like no other time in history. My favorite way to expand my circle is by reading blogs.  Recently, I was reading one of my favorite blogs... read more

Oct 19, 2008 Posted by Brian Monahan

What Bloggers & Marketers Can Learn from Pumpkins

What can you learn from a Pumpkin? Last week I was out picking up lunch for my wife and I passed a “farmers market” selling pumpkins.  Alright, I admit it was not much of a “farmers market” it was the strip mall’s parking lot.  But a real farmer had a trailer load of some great looking pumpkins. 50 cents a pound was a little steep but these were “round hard walled... read more

Oct 18, 2008 Posted by Brian Monahan

HubSpot Wins my 100th Twitter Follower Contest

Recently I ran a contest on Twitter.  I offered 100 Word Promo to my 100th follower on Twitter.  I find it rather interesting that a Social Media Company ended up being my 100th follower. For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter, it is basically summed up as a Micro-Blogging platform limited to 140 character length blog posts.  This seems like a ridiculous format but it has become the rage of the... read more

Oct 4, 2008 Posted by Brian Monahan

Google Docs, My Blogging Buddy

Besides my addiction to notebooks and notepads, I have an addiction for Google Tools.  One of my favorite Google Tools is Google Docs.  Google Docs is a free web based word processor.  It has most of the features of Microsoft Word and has a few other benefits Word cannot offer.  Those benefits include online collaboration, sharing and search capabilities to name a few. If you are addicted to ideas like... read more

Sep 27, 2008 Posted by Brian Monahan

Is Your Blog in a Recession?

A “Blog Recession” is when you do not post to your blog on consecutive days equal to your average weekly posts minus seven times two. Blog Recession Formula: My blog is 19 Weeks old and I have 48 posts. Average weekly posts equal 2.53 posts per week. 7 – 2.53 = 4.47 4.47 x 2 = 8.94 days. Therefore, if I do not post for 8.94 days my blog is in a recession. In fact I did not post to my... read more