http://buzzmommy.com Get Them Buzzing Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:15:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Much has been made of ill-timed and ill-fated pitches made to bloggers, especially Mommy Bloggers and how NOT to talk to Mommy Bloggers. The savvier Public Relations agencies are doing research about pitching bloggers, in fact I just got off the phone with a representative who was interviewing mothers who blog. For ... http://buzzmommy.com/2008/10-tips-for-pitching-mommy-bloggers/ We've spoken with a lot of fabulous mom (and dad) entrepreneurs who have fantastically brilliant ideas, but do not know where to go from there. If your idea is a fairly simple t-shirt or snapsuit design, you can often produce these fairly inexpensively or float a test balloon at CafePress. But what ... http://buzzmommy.com/2008/getting-your-product-to-market/ A lot is written about "black hat" SEO and marketing and if that is the way you wish to do business, it can bring in some more sales in the short term.  In the long term, however, I do believe that the old fashioned values of vision, hard work, and ... http://buzzmommy.com/2008/do-nice-guys-finish-last/ PageRank is, at the simplest level, a number that Google uses, in part, to determine your place in search results. To complicate matters, PageRank is dynamic. Your PageRank is continually calculated and re-calculated. However, you cannot see this number changing. Every three months or so (or when they feel ... http://buzzmommy.com/2008/what-is-pagerank-and-does-it-matter/ You have a fierce product and you just know you are ready for some national media and celebrity exposure, but you do not have the time, connections, or money to make this happen. Put your energy into local media. Small businesses may not have the resources to get noticed by the big ... http://buzzmommy.com/2008/pitching-local-media-public-relations/ We want to help moms, dads, bloggers, and other small business owners promote themselves.  Periodically, we'll post some free tips, suggestions, and advice for doing business on the Internet. http://buzzmommy.com/2008/hello-world/