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By: Brian Clark

Brian Clark — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:40:13 +0000

>>Firstly a giggle… I clicked on the link to Copyblogger and todays post has a YouTube video of Prince doing the Super Bowl half time show….
DOH!
It just figures, doesn’t it? I stay focused for an entire year, someone gives me credit for it, and I go and post a Prince video.
What can I say? 😉

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 17:34:02 +0000

Maureen,
That’s awesome about the chat feature success. I wonder how many others have had a similar experience with the chat tool.
To each their own for sure, and who am I to say what is going to work for everyone?… my main point is that it is through the quality of the message and the frequency of the message that one should look to impress their audience, not with the bells and whistles.
Heck, I don’t strictly follow my own advice: my sidebars are full of chicklets and I have some logowear as well. But on the other hand, I tried the chat feature for about 45 days and although I have upwards of 350 visitors a day (and growing) I couldn’t get a peep out of y’all. In fact, I wouldn’t know what to do if you had started using it because it was out of my control to monitor such a tool.

By: Maureen Francis

Maureen Francis — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:28:11 +0000

I added my first chicklet this week. Mybloglog creates a social connection. I like it but none of my clients or prospects show up there. Just other real estate bloggers. I am happy to see their faces, of course, but my prospects and clients are still anonymous.
Blog chat actually got me a new client within 24 hours of having it up on my site and one prospect. Much better results than my contact me page has ever had.
Yes, I think that blogs can get too blingy. If you dont have good content they wont come back.

By: Gena Riede

Gena Riede — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 06:37:55 +0000

Jim, I love all your bling! It’s funny that you mentioned all the bling. Went into a sports bar and couldn’t get over all the TV’s a stuff…I think it’s more a generational thing. This new generation wants and needs a lot of stimulous, in my opinion but you are right, if you have good content that should be all that’s needed. Very thought provoking and I really need to check out Brian a little more carefuly. I do get his RSS feed but now I’ll look at it more closely.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:13:47 +0000

John,
I’d be happy to send you a ‘Friend of the Tomato’ chicklet for your sidebar. 😛

By: John Lockwood

John Lockwood — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:11:11 +0000

There are dozens of community-based “opportunities” for me to increase someone else’s link reputation, most of which offer little or no value to my readers or to me. Circa 2002, it seemed every other real estate site had half a dozen links to some award, “Real Estate Top Banana” or “Real Estate Immaculate Honcho”. Now it’s all some bloggie thingie mucking up the page.

By: Toby Barnett

Toby Barnett — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 22:47:16 +0000

I have to agree that the bling is getting pretty wild in the blogosphere. Everytime I visit a new blog there are new toys that can be added. MSN Spaces platform is this way anymore, it was my first blog, and since their launch when the only cool things were a photo album and moveable modules there is now YouTube, Amazon and many other add in modules. I have steered away from them all on Spaces because load time dramatically goes up. My ActiveRain blog I have added some links to directories but havent gone for much bling. Not really needed and plus having all these tools it is difficult to keep track of it all.

By: Jim Cronin

Jim Cronin — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 19:54:34 +0000

Teresa,
Definitely. I don’t follow my own advice above: logowear, blogroll, blog directories… I was just pointing out that if you are truly good at what you do, then the bling just becomes a distraction. In marketing, sometimes we need a bit of flare, or imagery to ‘paint the picture’ – just don’t go overboard.
I love my T-Shirt on the sidebar. Does it do anything for my message? Probably not. Is is kind of fun? I think so. Should I take it down? Probably.
I wonder if I offended any of the community with this one… I know got a lot of the examples of bling from looking around at our peers.

By: Athol Kay

Athol Kay — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:26:45 +0000

Firstly a giggle… I clicked on the link to Copyblogger and todays post has a YouTube video of Prince doing the Super Bowl half time show….
Anyways,
There is a balance between stripped down naked, and being cluttered with garbage. I think a lot of that comes with just time and effort, see what works and what doesn’t.
Somethings are good for a season, then you and your blog out grows them. Right now for example I have a MyBlogLog widget on my site, it can be kinda lonely at times chugging away, and it energeizes me when I see peoples faces circling through my site.
Meebo seems to have potential.
SNAP Preview is THE DEVIL get it off your site.

By: Teresa boardman

Teresa boardman — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 17:13:52 +0000

You bring up a lot of good points about all of the doodads we can put on our blogs. I just want to say that for blogs like mine pictures are critical because my blog is about houses and St. Paul. There is a phot album embeded in my site that has actaully been responsible for most of my leads.