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Get paid for blogging! If you have something people want to read, share it on blogbank and make money in the process. 
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Marty Note Startups are so pressed for time they often ignore or make a C priority developing content marketing. That is a huge mistake when it comes time to close a round of funding.
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Plus unboxing videos and links to my new collection, Whatcha Gonna Do. It's not clear that the most trafficked posts are my best posts, but it's a fine place to start. Via Ken Morrison
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Seth understands brevity and great headlines. Takes no time to "read" these posts all of which are informative and fun. Read my story of spending a day with Seth here: http://scenttrail.blogspot.fr/2008/05/working-with-seth-godin.html#.UOG6fW80V8E
Ken Morrison's curator insight,
December 31, 2012 9:02 AM
Seth Godin has released a list of his top blog post of 2012. I am so thankful that this man has provided short tips for me to improve my careeer, my production, and my outlook for the past four years. He is a great example of doing something every day to build something big. His ideas are very relavent both for marketers and those building a social media presence.
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SMB owners and managers often rattle off myriad excuses about why they don't blog. The worst excuse is not having enough time. Here's why that excuse doesn't fly.
Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
Working on a piece for startups about how to create content marketing. Content marketing is the new advertising, the new market maker so to NOT blog and curate content across social nets is to give up on having online authority.
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Marty Note Via Marie Ennis-O'Connor
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Martin (Marty) Smith's insight:
I previously curated this piece into Curation Revoluiton, but, on the eve of Christmas, I'm moving it to Startup Revolution because startups need to focus on making content as strategic as every other aspect of their marketing. If you are a startup is your blog/content strategy ready for Christmas?
Martin (Marty) Smith's curator insight,
December 11, 2012 8:58 AM
Great post from my friends at Paper.li (@SmallRivers) on how to get your blog ready for all the new stuff happening now and in 2013. Is your blog ready for 2013? Not until you've read this excellent post from Paper.li. 
Kelly Hungerford's comment,
December 11, 2012 2:54 PM
Thanks Marty, much appreciated. We're having such a great time with Mack and the #blogchat community. There is amazing knowledge share and fun going on and it's been an incredibly rewarding experiencing bringing the two communities together and I'm learning a ton. Join us if you can!
Kelly Hungerford's curator insight,
December 11, 2012 3:20 PM
I saw this tweet today from Marty and laughed. He's got such a great sense of humor. I highly doubt that his blog isn't ready for 2013. From what I enjoy from his blogs, he is the master of content and keeping readers loyal, so my guess is that he's got it all under control.
But in any case, we hope to see him and anyone who wants to exchange ideas, tips and best practices as well as share in some festive seasonal fun!
Paper.li joined forces with Mack Collier's #blogchat for the month of December and we've been having a blast. It's an early wake-up call for Switzerland - 3am, but it's well worth it! Join us and check it out!
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You're a blogger and you spends a lot of time to write your blog posts. Maybe you would like make some money so that you could continued your blog, if it's the case, this excellent article will give you interesting information about how you can do it. [note mg] Like most bloggers, you probably want to make some money from your blog. Chances are good you’ve tried things like writing product reviews or putting banners or links to affiliate products into your sidebar.
In this post, I’ll show you how you can re-purpose three of the most successful blogging strategies to get more out of your affiliate promotions. As a nice extra, these tactics will also have a positive effect on your blog. But more importantly, you’ll learn how you can merge them into a combined and even more powerful strategy for your affiliate promotions. Read more: http://bit.ly/wRpcaz Via Martin Gysler
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Blog Bank
What if you could get PAID to blog? Sounds great right? But there's a problem. I don't blog to get paid. I blog to give back
Blog Bank is an interesting startup with an easy to use, well-crafted microblogging and micropayments User Interface. I blog almost daily and know a passel of bloggers. Would they like to get paid?
Sure, but no one I know blogs to get paid OR we get "paid" in other currency such as followers, shares, and likes. If you read the great book DRIVE: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Pink note his discussion of mercenaries vs altruists.
Pink puts the money motivated at 15% of the population with 85% wanting to "do the right thing". Every blogger I know would blog and is blogging without a thought to currency compensation.
"Blogger psychology" creates a significant barrier for BlogBank.com as structured today. The chance even my friends with following that dwarfs mine would make enough to pay for the meal I just had at Durham's Burger Bach seems remote and besides the point - they don't care and don't blog to make burger money.
On the other hand, BlogBank.com has created a smooth, mobile friendly and potentially cool tool IF / WHEN they expand their game. My friends don't blog for cash, but they sure do so for OTHER KINDS OF COMPENSATION (OKC).
I try to keep a running total in my head. When someone shares, likes or does some menschy thing to support Curagami.com or content on one of my social nets I try to make a mental, "need to pay back" note. If that "mental note" sounds precarious and fraught with lost opportunity you know me (lol).
What if BlogBank.com could do some basic Online Reputation Management and tell me when I'm OVER or UNDER with major supporters, those who JUST supported me (or my content) and alerted me to those I SHOULD be supporting?
If you read David Amerland's important What If We Had A New Value System for Goods and Services you can tell that one stumbling block is lack of a BANK. Maybe BlogBank.com isn't what it thinks it is or, better yet, maybe it is what we need it to be they just don't know it yet :). Marty