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Update (3:01 p.m.): The account is working again. Thanks for your patience!
My business model has shifted in the last few months. As I focus more on providing web site content, I’ve shifted away from creating web sites and doing online marketing. As of February 22, 2007, I’m no longer accepting new blog creation and online marketing clients, at least for the foreseeable future. The same applies to editing, proofreading, and manuscript typing clients.
On a limited basis, I’m accepting new clients looking for a blogger/copywriter. If you need content for your existing business blog and/or web site, contact me.
One of my pet peeves is bloggers who write long posts explaining why they haven’t been blogging, so I’ll keep this short and sweet. The Language Artist has slowly shifted from creating and marketing blogs to providing content.
While I like helping clients create blogs and market their businesses, I really like helping them with blog content. I enjoy doing the research and writing necessary to keep their blogs fresh and informative.
Back in April I blogged about Passion and Profit and doing what you really enjoy. In the next couple of weeks I plan to redesign the site to reflect the shift away from creating and marketing to copywriting and blogging.
One of my last creation/marketing projects is Conservative Comebacks. Client Gregg Jackson wanted a web site to promote his new book, Conservative Comebacks to Liberal Lies. Gregg, a radio talk show host, blogs at Pundit Review with co-host Kevin Whalen.
If your company has a blog and you need help with content, research, etc., contact me.
It’s the irony of ironies: A business blog consultant who doesn’t have time to blog!
This blog will be on hiatus until the beginning of June. I’m working on several political blog-related and freelance writing projects, and updating the business blog has to be put on hold for a few weeks. The Language Artist is still in business and working with a number of long-term clients. I’m very fortunate, considering that I started TLA only a year ago.
While I’m gone, please peruse the archives and visit each of the great blogs on the blogroll.
Thanks for reading TLA.
Attention bloggers and wanna-be bloggers in the D.C. area!
There are still slots available for a seminar I’m leading with fellow consultant Ken Yarmosh. Crash Course on Blogging is geared toward non-profit organizations but contains useful information for anyone who is blogging or thinking of starting a blog.
I will explain the benefits of blogging, what a blog can do for your organization, and how to build an audience, and Ken will demystify the technical jargon and show you how to set up a blog.
The seminar will be held at the Leadership Institute on 1101 North Highland Street, Arlington, VA 22201, on Monday, December 19, from 7:00-9:30 p.m.. The cost is only $35.
For more information, you may contact me or Ken Yarmosh.
Web consultant and tech blogger Ken Yarmosh and I are hosting a blogging seminar for non-profit organizations (others are welcome to attend) called “Crash Course on Blogging” on Monday, December 19, from 7:00-9:30 p.m., at the Leadership Institute on 1101 North Highland Street, Arlington, VA 22201.
The event is limited to 40 people, so if you’re interested, sign up now. For more information, see Ken Yarmosh’s post.
Business blogger (and TLA client) Starling Hunter has written a report about BlogAds.
Read the Executive Summary.
Until I get around to writing a few how-to articles, I encourage you to check out these items in the business blogging world:
Link Love: The Busy Blogger’s Friend
A combination of commitments to clients, demands of my political blog, freelance writing projects, and 20th high school reunion (!) festivities has resulted in the temporary neglect of this business blog, so I’ll do what busy bloggers often do: link to other blogs. Enjoy!
This morning I met with an enterprising young man named Ken Yarmosh, owner of a DC-area technology company called Technosight. He contacted me after reading a press release I sent out last week. Ken visited my business and personal blogs and wanted to talk to me about some of his ideas.
Ken is well-versed in the technical side of the web, and I am a staunch blogging advocate and online marketer. We both know there’s gold to be dug in Washington, D.C., and it would be a shame to let it sit there unmined and unspent. Ken suggested that we develop seminars for various organizations and sell the idea of blogs and the importance of building and maintaining a web presence. I’ve always wanted to do something like this, but sitting down face to face with someone, putting our heads together, and coming up with a solid plan was just the impetus I needed.
Ken and I are both enthusiastic about what we do for a living. In fact, we were talking loudly enough at one point that another customer in the coffee shop overheard us. She came over, introduced herself, apologized for eavesdropping, and asked if we’d be interested in speaking to some people she works with about blogging.
It was a great morning. 
We envision offering a few free seminars to gauge interest, then offer courses in web development, business blogging, and online marketing. Blogging is a very inexpensive way to market a business and build relationships with existing customers, but many businesses are resistant. We want to change that. For non-profit organizations, a strong online presence is a cost-effective way to attract potential donors and increase grant opportunities. Washington, D.C., is filled with public policy organizations and other non-profits that don’t have blogs.
Ken Yarmosh and I have all sorts of ideas, but the key is sitting down, coming up with a plan, and getting things done. I’ll keep you posted.
Addendum: A blogger gets rich. Jason Calacanis, founder of a blog network called Weblogs, Inc., just sold his company to AOL for $25 million. Speechless.
Other bloggers talking: BL Ochman, The Angel Blog, Bloggers Blog, Blogspotting, Jeff Jarvis, Jeremy Wright, Micro Persuasion (and here), Business Blog Consulting, The Blog Herald…
My client Jerri Ward is very pleased with her law firm’s new site, Garloward.com. The old site was created with Front Page and old blog was hosted on Blogspot. Jerri wanted a platform that was easy to use, so I suggested we create the whole site with WordPress, and Lisa Sabin of Elegant Webscapes designed it. Blogging platforms can be used to create static web sites, too.
The new look is similar to the old, only much cleaner and easier on the eyes. And the blog is the home page, something I always recommend. We’re now in the online marketing phase of the project. I have no doubt Jerri will enjoy her new blog, and so will her clients.
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