No matter if you are blogging for money or for passion, your blog is about to blow up!

The Thinker, by Rodin

How do you blog? Why are you blogging? What is your blog about?

Blogs got started as unpretentiously, simple online diaries, and became one of the easiest, faster and funniest way to make money. Why? Because it is all about you! You can choose the topic, and the post, pick the pictures and a template. You are the writer, the publisher, the editor, the audience, all the same time.

People who blog for money naturally blog differently then the ones who blog only for the need of putting their ideas out. Who are being more successful? That is a tricky question.

Understand how companies are using Twitter for advertise their business at the next iBreakfast

A lot of people are hearing that getting an account on Twitter is good for your projects and businesses, but there are much more things involved on the Twitter use.

The Twitter tool might work as a way of attract people to your blog, but there are manners and a few tips that can really make the difference for the reputation of your brand. on last, January the iBreakfast, the topic was “Glitter in Twitter”, and the main discussion was How Business are Using this micro blogging tool.

In the video above are a few insights from the speakers on the panel:

• Howard Lindzon, from StockTwits

• Stephen Gilberg, from WineTiwts

• Chris Muscarella, from mCommons

• Gregory Galant, from Sawhorse Media

Micah Baldwin talks about Lijit’s corporate blog, his personal blog and gives good tips for new bloggers

How can you divide your time to blog more professionally and more productively? We have just finished a nice interview with Micah Baldwin, from Lijit.com and this was one of the most interesting insights of our conversation.

Micah writes his personal blog Learn to Duck, and he actually got the job at Lijit after installing it to his blog. “I believe that having a personal blog is extremely important”, Micah said on his interview for Bloggers School Radio, on BlogTalkRadio Network.

He gave these really helpful tips for ADHDs bloggers just like us to divide and organize our time having time for reading and writing. Micah has three rules of blogging:

Make your business free of the Yellow Pages and advertise for free using Inbound Marketing online

You know you have a good product, but is difficult to make sales because the costumers can’t find you? Then you figure you need some marketing and advertises: flayers, Yellow Pages, announces on newspapers… Okay, might work, but this is kind of expensive. Besides that, why do you think people are going to choose your product in the middle of so much information, so many options?

Don’t get desperate. Breath and think about Inbound Marketing. Instead of getting yourself out there and trying to catch people’s attention in an ostensible way, make the costumers find you. They prefer this way.

The biggest tip on this post is:

Give up information for free
Sell your knowledge, expertise and solutions

What it means is nowadays, with so much free information, people search, compare and need to trust your product and your brand before purchasing. You educate first, and then you sell.

Blogging and Social Media have been doing an amazing job when comes to advertising your business for free online. Check out these videos from HubSpot, witch are Inbound Marketing campaigns for itself. HubSpot is authority on Inbound Marketing and their videos are fun, funny, instructive and really make you feel like “Hum, I want to learn more about this company and its products”.

The video below became and internet viral campaign and it is a parody of Alanis Morissete song “You Ought a Know”.

This second video is another fun approach from HubSpot for telemarketing sales and old school marketing techniques. Have fun!