Falling in love with blogging again

I feel like a relationship expert this weekend. It seems that we’ve reunited hundreds of people and their blogs in the last week since we launched TrackBoost and Utility Poster.

I had a feeling this might happen. Bloggers often have a love/hate relationship with blogging because of the demands a blog makes on us as writers and “filters” of information.

We love the traffic and having no restrictions to what can be achieved with a popular site. But we hate having to be responsible for putting up great posts day after day. Sometimes you’re into it and sometimes you’re not.

Problem is, people are searching right now to find you on new keywords and through buzz generated about your latest and future posts. Having a blog is like caring for a Great Dane. It must be fed, a lot, to really see growth and to establish authority.

Money for Something

The good part is, unlike a Great Dane, a blog will make you money the more you feed it.

As the web settles into a pure dynamic landscape, where information truly flows, changes, and syndicates itself, we are all collectively realizing that content development and publishing has to be done regularly and done well to compete with others who “seem” to have no trouble at all feeding the beast.

The new users of TrackBoost and Utility Poster are finding that they too can “seem” to be at their computers day and night producing great content. While actually not spending as much time at it as before.

And the beauty of these two tools is that they will only produce bad results if users are bad editors or filters of the information they collect to post. Because we left the human element in the process and didn’t try to make anything close to a spammy information scraper or outdated RSS poster to create great posts, your personal touch and style is left in the process.

A Boy and His Blog: Reunited

This post would normally have taken me at least an hour+ to put together by hand. Going back and forth to all those sites getting the title, URL, snippet, and trackback URL for each and every story is a nightmarish scenario we all know too well.

Of course the research to find all that content is a whole other matter, taking a considerable amount of time the old way. Add another 30 minutes to the task for a reasonable search and review, sifting through many poor or average posts to come up with the gems.

I made the post above in about 25 minutes last night.

One new TrackBoost and Utility Poster owner had this to say:

“Been playing with these tools for a couple of days. They are addictive. Nice work.”

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Addictive? I thought about that for a moment and realized he’s right. I too play with both apps frequently and, consequently, post more often here and on remote blogs because I enjoy it so much.

Enjoy blog posting?

That’s new! But having the right tools makes the job easier as well as making research fun again because all the hurdles to finding and posting good content have been removed, leaving us to focus on the fun parts of blogging: posting great content fast and seeing immediate results as readers comment and submit your posts to social news and other social media sites.

A reader submitted the post above to StumbleUpon last night right after I posted it. I logged on this morning to a nice bump in traffic from that one source (above what I normally get on a Saturday night)!

So much fun, that I even enjoyed putting this post together, word for word, a little more than usual.

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Tags: content development, feeding the beast, trackboost, utility poster

The Day After…

Launching a new product is always interesting. Seeing your baby hit the market and received with positive reviews and feedback is priceless.

Its funny. I never get used to launch days. There’s always a nervous energy and, though I’ve had a lot of these by now, always some apprehension wondering how all the work producing a product will be received.

Yesterday we launched two products in fact. Utility Poster and TrackBoost. Double apprehension!

Everything went more smoothly than most product releases we’ve done and the feedback so far has been awesome!

Here are some comments that are spread throughout recent posts I made for both apps:

Jack,

I bought TrackBoost and all I can say is Thank You! This tool will save me a boat load of time and will generate a much needed improvement in my blogs. I can see it helping me reach out to other bloggers and work together in niches and above all bring me a lot of traffic and money. I am sure I will recoup the cost in less than a few days with the right blogs and products.  -Daniel Beatty

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Hey Jack,

I just want to tell you that both Utility Poster and Trackboost are great.

At first, I did not think I would have much use for them honestly — but I’ve used at least one of them on every post I’ve done since I started using them.

What I typically do is write my post, do all the magic we do from SPL — then come back in a few days and use either TB or UP on the post.

I do it this way as it gives me another opportunity to ping the post (with TB) as the content on it has changed. -Andrew Daum

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“Utility Poster freakin’ rocks.”

Blogging so easy even a Caveman can do it.

Thanks for the tools Jack!

-Walt Goshert

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Thanks Jack,

No more excuses not to make a post! The features of this software really explain the title. This should really help us out. Thanks again Jack! -Steven

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This is Outa Site, works Wonderful !!!******

Simple and Fast to use !

Thank you Jack and Crew !!!******

-Greg Lunger

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Sales have been robust and I imagine a lot of people are just playing with their new toys and haven’t gotten back here yet to give feedback.  This is the place to do it.  Would love to hear more of what you all think and would like to see some examples of the work you’re doing with either app on your blogs!

Thanks to all our customers for your undying support and enthusiasm!

Give me a shout below about TrackBoost or Utility Poster… 

Tags: trackboost, utility poster

The day that blogging changed forever…

Hey, drama is fun sometimes. I don’t know if we’re “changing blogging” today, but we’re making it a heck of a lot easier without sacrificing quality content development and link building.

In fact, we’re enhancing bloggers’ ability to post more regularly with relevant, keyword-tight utility posts while gaining all the links we’ve all missed for lack of time to search them out.

We’re doing this in 10 minutes when we open up Trackboost for sales at 12 p.m. EST.

The biggest problem every blogger I have ever talked with (and that would be thousands) is the amount of time it takes to get good quality content together on the days between the big, lengthier posts are scheduled.

Close behind that is the time it takes to get premium linkage. Those are links that come to your site with keywords in the anchor text and where actual human beings flock to click on them.

If you’re being honest about your daily life as a blogger, you know you’ve got a problem. I do. We all do.

One need only check out the latest stories in the blogosphere and you’ll inevitably find stories about overworked, out of shape, stressed out, heart-attack-waiting-to-happen bloggers who really could use a bit of their lives back.

So, we made software to help.

And now, it launches in 7 minutes. Gotta go. Enjoy your new found freedom from blogging and promoting every minute of the day!

Tags: blogging software, trackboost, utility poster

Trackboost and Utility Poster Answers

In this video I answer some of the common questions that have come up in the fantastic feedback we’ve been getting for Trackboost and Utility Poster. I also let everyone know when to expect the release of both titles and expose a brand new feature added to Trackboost in the last 24 hours.

Tags: blogging software, trackboost, utility poster