Pondering this today. Why is the blogosphere mean? Are people bolder behind a keyboard? It is interesting how technology is changing the world. But is technology also revealing more about human nature. Ponder that next time you post on Reddit my friend.

What better way to gain authority in your niche than to interview an expert? You get a quality post, learn something new, and can sell their product or service just like that.....

Have read that to aggressively promote your blog, 3 posts a day need to be written. At least. If you must research your articles, then this would take at least six hours to do and at most 10 hours.

That doesn't even factor in blog promotion or site maintenance. Yikes. Talk about burn out.

Am trying to create a disciplined way to promote my blog...and am thinking something like.

DAILY GOALS

-Comment on 5 blogs in my niche
-Comment on 5 Twitter feeds in my niche
-Comment on 5 Chimes
-Comment on 5 FaceBook pages in my niche

What would be interesting is if other bloggers would change the amount of comments they did daily. For example, if one blogger did each of the above 1 time a day or another did it 10 times a day. Then we...

Have used Chime In a few times to post my content on but haven't been regularly using it. Am thinking about coming up with a daily plan of posting my content there and commenting on like 5 Chimes. But a few questions linger...

1) How much traffic is there?
2) What is their demographics?
3) How do I convert them to readers of my blog?

Found out there is a Community section on Chime In. You can start a forum for Chimes related to one topic. Will see how...