Helping the Non-Sleazy Learn Promotion

I should change the title of this blog. The Blue Moon Blog. Or the Prodigal Blogger. Or the Every Other Blue Moon Blog.

The Horsey Set Net is The Blog That Ate My Life. I’d feel guilty, but I love it too much.

So, it’s almost hard to believe that this blog is more than a year old now. (Yeah, I know – not so many posts, though. Oops. My bad.)

If you’ve been kind enough to keep this in your reader, I’m going to send you some links about helpful blogs that I’ve discovered along the. (No, they’re not affiliate links.)

They’ll be helpful to anyone who needs to learn about marketing (what we writers call “promotion.”) And they don’t look like those sleazy-looking irect mail type websites.

After spending more than six months hanging out with some Internet marketing hotshots, I’ve seen plenty of those. But I’ve also seen some that inspire me to make the unimaginable possible.

These aren’t affiliate links. You can learn tons from these folks without pulling out the credit card because they all blog. Yes, they do sell e-products, and I have used offerings from each of them and been very happy with what I bought.

But these are links to their blogs. Where lots of good free info awaits. Here goes:

Yaro Starak’s Entrepreneur’s Journey often has some gems. His audience is largely internet marketers, so he writes to their needs. However, he’s big on what he calls “the giving mindset,” as well as having balance in one’s life He’s doing some spiritual explorations lately, too.

IttyBiz looks like a tough, sassy place to hang out. Naomi Dunford has no problem with plain talk and swearing in her posts. But take part in one of her teleconferences, and you find out that she’s not as intimidating as the tough talk would indicate. She gives practical advice on how marketing helps people find what they want and need. And she’s a mom with a family business.

Naomi’s BFF Havi Brooks and her duck Selma take an even more spiritual approach at their blog The Fluent Self. Havi is a yoga instructor. If promotion feels ickily unseemly to you, Havi can help you ease your way into it. She renames gross-sounding things like “marketing” without sounding like she’s talking down to us.

For all of these blogs, your best bet is to probably snoop around the archives or site maps. Some have search boxes built into the site, and those are handy, too.