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What's the secret to keep the blogging momentum?

Ted Demopoulous over at Blogging for Business just posted an update to his book "One Year Later - What nobody ever tells you about blogging and podcasting"

I had the fortune of connecting with Ted and being interviewed last June.   I also agree with his comment about motivation and ideas and believe there is a real need to understand your individual motivation to blog as well as to connect with others that have succeeded where you have not yet gone.

And if you haven't read it yet, the 101 stories from people who profit somehow from the blogosphere may just motivate you and give you some new ideas. It did with me.

Over the past few months I seem to keep finding more and more "abandoned blogs" after 6 months, a year or even less of starting it.  The unfortunate part is that people are keeping their link on their main web page to their blog, but when you get there you find yourself disappointed since they haven't kept the momentum and their last post was 6 months or longer ago.

For me that has me wonder....hmm, what's up...is the business still active or are they just too busy to write  IF they are THAT busy why haven't they hired a ghost writer to help?

So what's the secret to keeping the blogging momentum?
(here's a few ideas to get you going)

Growing Up With Eli: A Favorite Car Game "Punch Bug Yellow" with a POW!

In the past month Eli and I have been playing a game that I grew up with in the 70's - "punch bug" or "slug bug" as my west coast husband refers to it. So if you want an easy car game fory your long Thanksgiving drive read on.

It's been a ton of fun - our eyes constantly searching and then the wind up and "pow" as "punch bug yellow"  is yelled at the top of our lungs.  Of course when I'm driving I have an advantage and offer a little bit of a delay so that Eli can some times see the "punch bug first."

Interestingly, since we started playing he has asked to move his car seat to the middle of the back seat so he can see better.  I suppose he is over the excitement of being able to open the window on his own for now.

He loves to keep count and  when he is winning announce, "I am so luckier today."

What is punch bug or slug bug? 

Mark Hendricks 12 Days of Christmas 2007 is Back

This is the 5th Anniversary of Mark Hendrick's 12 days of Christmas promotional free giveaway to build your online home internet business.  He's a smart man and enlists the help of peers to provide great Internet tools for free. 

It's really a win / win for all - the providers of Internet products such as ebook, business in a box, software, and scripts get connected to possible clients.  Internet marketers and hopeful internet newbies get to try some products that could help their business or simply inspire them to create some thing just like it.

It's definitely worth checking out...I know that last year I enjoyed a few of the gifts myself like a script for audio with a simple format that allows me to put audio directly onto web pages and blog pages, some blogging tools that were fun to check out such as one for how to better utilize wordpress, and some PLR (private label rights) products that I wouldn't have bought but were curious to see how they were laid out and what kind of content was included.

Other ways you can use the gifts:  

• Some of the better ideas come as the OTO (one time offers) when you get your free gift. 
• Sort through the gifts and look for products and ideas you can use with clients and offer as a bonus.

Here's my post from last years Mark Hendricks' 12 Days of Christmas Giveaway which has more potential product details.

I do warn you that with each gift you are joining the list of the product's providers - so pick wisely or be ready to quickly discern who provides value and which list you want to unsubscribe.

If you sign up and find some thing you think the rest of us do need to know about, please be sure to share your thoughts on the comments.

Michele Corey, writing for Knee Deep Blog A dose on insight and a little crap from your not always average home based business and Internet mom and Money Wise Women: A Blog for Women that are ready to get their financial house in order

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