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Some folks are chomping at the bit for me to get back to my B.A.H.N. paradigm and that's coming soon. For those of you who are new to the web or blogs, I urge you to read a few blogs everyday and even jump in and start your own. Just forcing yourself to write on a regular basis will make a difference in your communication skills. I find that committing all these words to the internet helps me remember things, too. We have associations in our brains and given enough words and pictures that you use in this process of blogging, you'll remember some of the connections you haven't thought about in a while.
As for LinkedIn, Jim McClendon responded to my response to his blog and soon we'll be networking through LinkedIn together. Some really serious businesspeople like Paul Allen won't even consider talking to you unless you're on LinkedIn in the first place. I guess that's part of his screening process to make sure you can do things quickly and have at least a basic level of technological understanding. I am finding that I have to coach some of my associates in using the web and blogging and when you coach people you can earn more income or deepen relationships or both.
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A lot of my traffic comes from BlogExplosion. If you haven't signed up for it you can sign up by clicking on the title of today's post above. I do receive visitors from other sites, though. Technorati is one of them. I recommend really exploring it and connecting your blog to it. One interesting idea is simply mentioning Technorati [or LinkedIn, for that matter] in your verbage will get your blog noticed by Technorati. So, I expect I'll receive a few more visitors from Technorati very soon.
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Another good source of traffic for my site is Clickthru.com. I realize that some of you bloggers may pooh-pooh it because a lot of opportunity seekers use it, but it is one of my highest traffic producers after BlogExplosion.com and I see more blogs on there all the time. It also has some interesting stuff like paying people for tasks. You can pay people a few credits for doing certain tasks on your site and you also receive credits as with BlogExplosion, so you'll want to sign up others. Here's my referral link for Clickthru.com:
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One of the great things about Branica.com is the list of the top 20 sites where your visitors come from. I have noticed that as much as I love StatCounter.com's graphs for a visual understanding of what's going on, there is one thing that Branica.com does better. I like getting a count of people who visit your page through THEIR BOOKMARKS! I get really encouraged seeing that people are returning to my blog because they have bookmarked it. That's cool. With Sitemeter.com you will sometmes see the time someone stays at or "stickiness" of your site. Usually, Sitemeter shows a zero, which may have to do with so many people visiting through BlogExplosion surfing, or perhaps there is a technical issue that they haven't addressed. You can visit both of these sites by clicking the links at the very bottom left of the WeAreGrowing page.
Last but not least, I have also noticed traffic growing from another source through the back office of Branica - my other blogs. So, start another blog for a different audience or niche and link it back to your original blog. One of my newest blogs is OblivioustotheComplexities2 and you can visit by clicking on my newest blog link on the left side of this page or here:
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Thanks to all of you who have been clicking on my New Year's resolution links!
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