The more popular blogging becomes, the more designers who specialize in blog design are in high demand. The best designers are scheduling work a month or two out, and have their choice of which clients they'd like to work with, and which they'd rather take a pass on. Particularly in the case of WordPress, there is more work these days than there are designers to do it.

If you've spent any time reading online marketing blogs or sites like this one, you're probably either blogging or thinking about blogging. Of course you also might be wondering about more traditional online marketing options like the ever popular email newsletter. But if your time is limited, which one should you get your focus? That's the question being answered by Rich Brooks at the Flyte Blog today.

In another installment of what I might call "Fun with RSS," I've created a video that will show you how to automatically post any content you want to your web site or blog using bookmarking.

This is a great little trick for creating "In the News" pages or for scraping company or industry mentions to re-purpose to a web site. I use it to post news mentions I get and mentions of my book from around the Internet, but you could easily use this technique to create custom content pages for search purposes or even create highly personalized newspapers for customers and prospects. Once you get this set up anyone surfing the web for you can build these highly personalized pages.

"And that," he wrote, "is that."

Doesn't much make you want to pitch in with your own views, does it?

We all tend to focus on catchy headlines and gripping titles. That split-second interest grabber is important. Copyblogger's great posts on headlines thankfully tell you exactly how to craft your words to create snappy headlines.

Within an Investor's Business Daily editorial last week was a great example of how to respond to negative information in blogs about your company. Reputation Management is an area of concern to many corporate executives, unfortunately many of them do not have plans in place to respond when negative news breaks.

I see blogs… and even businesses that constantly advertise and promote themselves in the same mediums time and time again. You see it in blogs a ton. The same bloggers reach out to the same bloggers all the time. The same people goto the same conferences all the time. The same business's advertise in the same mediums all the time.

I read a nice little post by Brent Csutoras I had been pointed towards it by Brian who is quoted within. I have been preparing a post on Mixx since before Christmas for Collective Thoughts so was keen to see another perspective, I was pleasantly surprised but also a little concerned.

Sheer Volume of worthless traffic is still worthless

Those of you that have followed my site over the last few years have known that I think domain names are hot property. The latest beachfront are 4 letter .coms. The 3 letter .coms that went for 3-5 thousand dollars two years ago now sell from 8 thousand up. Even junk ones sell for that low range. Now investors have moved on to 4 letters.

Xobni (that's inbox backwards - cute!) is the next big idea in productivity enhancements for your inbox. The Xobni software is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook that offers email management and quick access to important information in your email. But more than that, Xobni claims to "expose the hidden social network" in your email. That's ingenious because everyone I know is in my email...somehow, somewhere...but they may or may not be my friend on MySpace, Facebook, flickr, YouTube, etc. This is especially true for my family members over 40!

Most entrepreneurs believe a bunch of myths about financing new companies that hinder their efforts to raise money. Here are a few:

Myth 1: It takes a lot of money to finance a new business. Not true. The typical start-up only requires about $25,000 to get going. The successful entrepreneurs who don't believe the myth design their businesses to work with little cash. They borrow instead of paying for things. They rent instead of buy. And they turn fixed costs into variable costs by, say, paying people commissions instead of salaries.