Archive for the ‘Wine Blogs’ Category
The Wine Bloggers Conference is quickly approaching. At the conference Alder Yarrow and I will be conducting a seminar focused on Increasing Your Readership & Visitors. One of the fundamental points that I will be making at the seminar is that frequency of posting has an important impact on a blog's readership. Basically, the more frequently one posts, the better and higher the readership. To illustrate this point, I looked at the frequency of posting for just two months of…
I’ve been thinking about THIS POST from Steve Bachmann’s "Wine Collector" blog since it hit. Maybe anyone else with a retirement portfolio or investments should also. Like most folks in their 40s, I’ve got IRAs, savings, investments, etc. The idea is to save up enough for when you retire so that you don’t have to fight for a place on Van Ness Avenue where you can stand all day holding a sign that says, "Former PR Exec Down and Out…Any…
Ryan Opaz of Catavino, via the Open Wine Consortium, has posted a survey meant to be taken by Wine Bloggers in an effort to learn a great deal more than we already do about the nature of the wine blogging community. It’s an exceptional idea. If you are a wine blogger TAKE THE SURVEY. If you are not a member of the OpenWine Consortium, GO HERE to become a member of the most dynamic wine industry social networking organization.
If there’s one thing that can doom any magazine it’s an irregular publishing schedule. readers don’t subscribe to magazines out of pity. They subscribe to magazines for the pleasure or necessity of getting their regular dose of information of entertainment that that particular source. When the source fails to deliver, expectations are doused and, in part, the deal between the publisher and the subscribers/readers has been broken. The results are never good. This is what was in part on my…
Do you ever wonder how people find you on the Internet? Wineries, wine retailers and restaurants certainly do, as well as every other business that hopes to connect with prospective customers over the Internet. Bloggers should be wondering this too. One of the best ways to discover how you are being discovered (or how your website or blog is being discovered) is to look at your stats and see what keywords used in search engines bring eyeball to you. I…
