Scott Rosenberg, author of the new SAY EVERYTHING, goes on a quest to footstep down the primal blogger. In SAY EVERYTHING, Rosenberg chronicles bloggings unplanned rise and improbable triumph, tracing its impression on politics, business, the media, and our personal lives. www.randomhouse.com
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The First Blogger, with Scott Rosenberg
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010You can’t Tweet “goodnight” on a first date…Why how you say goodnight is even more important than how you say hello on a first date
Saturday, February 13th, 2010As Facebook and Twitter infiltrate our social interactions, some things remain the same. Take going out on a date. You can make your date arrangements by tweeting or texting, but some things you still need to do unplugged. That includes coming up with a goodnight routine or plot about successfully ending the huge first date. And if you want a second one, how well you end the first date can play a huge part.
Paul A. Falzone, CEO of The Right One and Together Dating–one of the world’s largest brick-and-mortar dating air force with more than 60 offices nationwide—has corresponding hundreds of clients during his quarter of a century in business. So what does this like authority reckon about saying goodnight?
“You want to go into the date thinking things will go well. So it’s unquestionably not premature to at least imagine how you would like the date to end. That said, you don’t want how you say goodnight to turn into goodbye and that does take setting some boundaries for how far things will go,” said Falzone.
For starters, Falzone recommends:
? Meet at the place of your date – eliminating the home pickup and dropoff does reduce the likelihood of an overly affectionate goodnight. That can be a excellent and terrible thing. But if the date went well, not a dealbreaker.
? Goodnight kiss; handshake, high five? – See how the date goes and use your best instincts and discrimination. There’s nothing incorrect if the twilight gets a small amorous, that’s the thought. But going into the date with any expectations, even a peck on the cheek, is a mistake.
? Should I question for a second date? – The night’s gone well and you’re wondering “should I strike while the iron is hot and see if he/she wants to get together again”. Don’t. Avoid making plans as you’re saying goodnight. If it went well, do make plans to reconnect by phone, text or e-mail.
? Want to come up for a cup of coffee? – Again, use your discrimination. Is coffee coffee or does it mean a touch else? If it’s really coffee and you’d like to take up again the date and conversation, there are more than few coffee shops out there. Keep this date public. If it’s meant to be, there will be plenty of times for “coffee” at his or her place.
? Walk your date to their door or vehicle – Just a common courtesy and doesn’t mean anything more than you want them to get home safely. Don’t mistake walking them to the door to mean any more than that.
? And if it went terribly – You went out on the date and nothing. That happens. Just leave it at that. It’s a date, not a breakup and there’s really no need to make any declarations that you don’t want to go out again right there. One of the beauties of the technology we have is that if you don’t want to go out with somebody again, there are ways—e-mail, texting, and voice mail—to do it without a face-to-face confrontation.
“Having a goodnight routine is really about judging how the twilight went, assessing where you want things to go—or not go—and really using your best discrimination. And if all those things are helping, take it slow. As said earlier, if it’s meant to be, a succinct goodnight is not a dealbreaker,” said Falzone.
Episode 29: First look at the 2010 Golf TDI
Sunday, January 10th, 2010
A first look at the 2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI. More videos on my blog: askavwsalesguy.wordpress.com … Golf TDi 2010 question VW sales guy vendor wordpress Volkswagen Vdub MKVI Rcd RNS HID 9W2
Do You Know What is the First Thing a Blogger Do?
Monday, December 28th, 2009Keyword research should be the first thing you do previous to you even start a new blog. If you ever want to make cash online or make cash blogging for that topic, then you need to know how vital it really is to know how to do proper keyword research.
Not only that but you should also know that the time to do keyword research is previous to you buy a domain and start a new site or blog.
This is easily one of the most misunderstood aspects of Internet marketing…the keyword research. For more details kindly login on to www.instant-blog-and-ping.com. I reckon at first it seems to make significance to most newbies that you would want to target a keyword that gets lots of traffic, so you can make a lot of cash.
The more traffic then more cash there is to be made. This is right of course but not easily done! In fact, it is nearly impossible for a newbie to target a high traffic, high competition keyword and be successful. There are real pros out there dominating those keywords…you don’t stand a chance.
Somewhere along the road even the newbies learn that the way to go is with long tail keywords. Yes there is just a fraction of the traffic that the top keywords get but this is really to our advantage.
While the huge boys are dominating and fighting over the top keywords, we can easily dominate the long tail keywords because they are much less competitive. All newbies should target long tail keywords. These are phrases three to six or even seven words long. Usually though long tails are around three to five words long, but some are longer.
Once you realize that long tail keywords are the way to go, you must then learn to narrow it down even more. You should try to find an simple target so that you increase your chances of tasting success.
The KEI is an vital figure in keyword research. The KEI (keyword effectiveness index) is a search to results ratio in the end. The higher the KEI the better the chances you have to be successful with this keyword. A excellent KEI is about 400 or better. Sometimes you will see some terms with crazy high KEI…like over 300,000. This is a nice way to narrow down your keyword selection even more.
Once you find a group of long tail keywords and you start to narrow down your choices and check the KEI then what? Now you can check to see how much cash is in the keyword. I really do this part first as it gets me excited. You can also stay us at www.blog-link-generator.com. You just go to Google ad words and use the keyword tool there.
Type in your keyword and it will tell you how much the advertisers are paying per click. If you place adsense on your blog, and it is optimized for a certain keyword, you are going to trigger some of the ads in your niche to appear on your blog.
You will get somewhere between twenty percent and fifty percent of what the advertiser is paying to Google. So you want to make sure there is some cash in your keywords if you plot to use adsense to monetize your blog.
Google analytics on custom domain powered by blogger ,I am new to Blogger. Today was my first day & my adsence account has been disabled.I
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I am new to Blogger. Today was my first day & my adsense account has been disabled.I had edited the title & url in my first blog several times. I had applied for adsence with my previous url http://hoping1day.blogspot.com/ . Later i had changed the blog title to UAE Driving Licence & url to http://uaedrivinglicence.blogspot.com/. Now my ads have been removed and my account has been disabled. What should i do to enable my adsense account. I cannot login to my adsense account.
My blog was originally at www.awakeat2oclock.blogspot.com
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I now have it at www.awakeat2oclcock.com where it is powered by blogger.
Google analytics is only picking up visits to the ancient blogspot site, previous to they redirect. Where do I place analytics code to footstep traffic to the new site? The only HTML entry area I see is in the template. Does it go there?
Update:
Spelling corrected on new domain for original post.
blogging, blogger,blogspot,make cash from blog
My blog was originally at www.awakeat2oclock.blogspot.com
I now have it at www.awakeat2oclock.com where it is powered by blogger.
blogging, blogger,blogspot,make cash from blog
Google analytics is only picking up visits to the ancient blogspot site, previous to they redirect. Where do I place analytics code to footstep traffic to the new site? The only HTML entry area I see is in the template. Does it go there?
9/18/09
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misterrick
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9/18/09
Best answer – John Dini (Asker)
First thing you need to do is go into your Analytics account and delete your ancient website profile and make a new profile for your new customized URL address, next go into your Blogger account and in your template completely remove the ancient Analytics code and replace it with the new code that was generated for your new customized URL address preferably just above