Lara Nieberding

Even large companies identify a niche

Find Your Niche and Develop It!

And I’d speculate that your business or industry probably isn’t that different either. It’s a universal truism that all businesses need to find their own niche and align their strengths around it. Aquascape’s strength is in its products, training and education, marketing and brand. Our distributors’ strengths run the gamut, and it’s up to each and every one of them to figure out for themselves how they want to leverage those to service the customer. And the customer, after all, is the only one who truly matters in the end. As for our original distributors who chose to stay on … so far so good! Almost every one increased sales in an open market, further validating that free market economies work. That is, provided you find your niche!

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January 30, 2008 at 8:06 AM

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Blog email listserv

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BLOG-L: What it is

There are lots of blogs about blogging, but I didn’t find much in the
way of email discussion lists on the subject. Since email discussion
lists have certain advantages over blogs for quickly accessing the
collective wisdom of a large number of people, it seemed like a good
idea to create one for blogging, so I did.

BLOG-L
is an email discussion list about blogs and blogging.� Email messages addressed to the list
are received by all subscribers to the list. Subscription is free. BLOG-L’s mission is to provide a quick and easy way to share information about blogs and blogging.

Subscribe to BLOG-L

Email:

Visit this group

Written by The Purple Lara

January 29, 2008 at 3:46 PM

Posted in Blogging

Define success for your blog

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From 0 to 2000+ Subscribers in 120 Days

I often get asked how I did it, and I decided to compile this article as a record of my experience with hope that others might benefit from what I’ve learned. I want to show you that it is possible to achieve your blogging goals starting from scratch, using my case as a live example. I’ve learned that there are no real secrets to blogging success, all it really takes is a deep desire to do so, along with an urge to action.

I have three important reasons why my blog has been successful:

Concrete Goals & Focus – You can’t get what you want if you don’t know what you want.

Content Creation – Where I spend most of my time. Content and understanding your audience is king.

Getting the Word Out – Actionable tasks I did to market my blog. All are easily reproducible by anyone. But only focus on this after area 2 have been in place. Without content, all your marketing efforts will be ineffective.

Written by The Purple Lara

January 29, 2008 at 2:17 PM

Posted in Blogging

23 Questions for Prospective Bloggers

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Please note that these questions are in essence a list of qualities of successful bloggers that I’ve come across over the last few years. If you don’t have some of these qualities it’s not the end of your blogging dreams. The list is idealistic and the questions are there to help potential bloggers enter into blogging with open eyes and making good decisions about whether a blog is right for them. It also might help potential bloggers to think about what type of blog they might start and what type of skills they might need to develop:

Without further ado – here’s my 23 questions:

Do you enjoy writing?

What’s your Message?

Are you a good communicator?

Are you better at writing or speaking?

Do you want to be the central voice on your website?

Are you a self starter?

Are you disciplined?

Do you have time?

Are you thick skinned?

Are you willing to be in the public spotlight?

Do you have any technical ability?

Do you enjoy reading?

Are you willing to work hard?

Written by The Purple Lara

January 29, 2008 at 1:45 PM

Posted in Blogging

Intro to blogging

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What is a Blog?

Confused yet? Don’t be – its really quite simple. To put it as simply as possible – a blog is a type of website that is usually arranged in chronological order from the most recent ‘post’ (or entry) at the top of the main page to the older entries towards the bottom.

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Written by The Purple Lara

January 29, 2008 at 1:21 PM

Posted in Blogging

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Happy New Year!!

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Wishing you a prosperous 2008!

Written by The Purple Lara

January 1, 2008 at 7:27 PM

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Virtual Skills = Real Skills

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I hope the use of the word “virtual” here is not meant to imply less value or inferior to “real” life skills. The social skills, work ethics and friendships are very real in a virtual world.The Data Digger
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Raising Virtual Children

These are places of learning. This student is learning to look for symptoms; earlier in the article, she was flipping burgers to make money for a scooter. She needed 50 bucks so she could buy a scooter. This is a place of learning, learning virtual social skills, virtual work ethics, and making virtual friends. This is all stuff you and I do not understand, but to these students, this generation., this is their playground

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December 26, 2007 at 11:23 AM

Posted in Education

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Can Second Life be an educational tool?

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Surfing Second Life

Second Life is often described as a 3-D version of the Web because it adds a rich visual aspect to Internet activities such as socializing, fact finding, and doing business. Since it is technically not a game, there is no intrinsic goal to playing, and the range of possibilities is almost infinitely wide. At the Pyramid Club, for example, a fox-like virtual character (or avatar), a man with 40-foot-tall wings, and a girl in black jeans dance on an electric-blue platform while a killer whale cruises by under the glass floor. Far away, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Science on a Sphere island, a tsunami simulator puts avatars waist-deep in water and a submarine ride lets them view algae-covered reefs and dolphin pods.