A blog for business

What makes a suc­cessful cor­porate blog? Can there even be such a thing? The Guinness blog, written by Guinness UK mar­keting managers, is quite clearly a part of the brand’s mar­keting efforts, but tries hard not to shove Guinness down your throat (chance would be a fine thing). Instead, they cover the places they have been, the campaigns

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Fear the reaper, successful bloggers

Anxious about the success of your blog? With my one regular reader (me), perhaps I ought to be. But it seems one secret of blog success is to wait around for a bit and soon your day will come. Tristan Louis has analysed the top 100 blogs listed at Technorati against the same list nine months earlier.

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Another get-​​rich-​​quick scheme foiled

Thanks to Drew B for drawing my atten­tion to a fant­astic article about blogging in New York magazine. The gist of it is that while blogs can earn money for writers, it’s not very likely. There are a number of issues, but the key is the number of inbound links. A large site with a staff can produce

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