Do you find yourself opening up and telling others your deepest, most shielded thoughts and feelings through blogging?

I was reading a very personal post last night, when I caught myself drifting back to a past life where I once attended a college that specialized in a particular type of medical training dealing with radiology. While attending this school, I took a few psychology classes. These psychology classes moved me so much I nearly changed my major. Then in the blink of an eye life happened and I ended up changing my entire direction in life. Although it has been over a decade, I am still very interested in psychology. As I look back I even wrote my high school thesis on hypnosis. So psychology in one way or another has been an interest for a very long time. But we will not go there today. Today we are looking at a form of persuasion through personal blogging.

Jumping to the present. On almost a daily occurrence I come across some very moving physiological writing about our environment that really draws out deep inspirational thoughts. One person’s blog that I read daily writes about his daily life and how he deals with small issues such as washing his car to the most earth shattering events in his life. Sometimes these blogs that I follow motivate with only a sentence or two, others transcribe every thought containing page after page in organized detail how to achieve a particular outcome. What they all have in common is that they blog about really personal information that some of their closest companions may never know. They do this knowing that they are gaining a rapport that is more motivating than any sales page could ever be.

What would someone from Classical Antiquity think of our world if they were to read our blogs?

Is bearing all to see the real secret of social behavior marketing?

Is letting others feel like they can crawl deep into ones mind a new doorway of persuasion?

Is this all old school marketing creeping into the Internet and becoming mainstream since blogging has now become mainstream?

Let me know by going to my Linked in page located at www.Mark-Laymon.com and give me the most inspirational review that you could possibly ever give.

PageRank, PageRank, PageRank
I Can Hear Horrified Calls From Here!

So tonight I see we have had a change of the Google PageRank. I have dreaded this was coming.

I am going to turn off my computer now. Call me next month when the coast is clear to come out.

Social Network Ice Breakers?

Many social networks offer their users some type of online ice breaker to meet other people in their system. If you are an A-list blogger close this window NOW!

• Yahoo Mash has their Mash Pets. These widgets allow you to introduce yourself into the community without being annoyingly in your face.
• Facebook has SuperPoke, Zombies, and Vampires, they are always in your face and are getting to be very annoying, even more annoying when someone like me starts to use them.
• Digg Also jumped into the game recently with Shouts. Digg Shouts are the ultimate in annoying people. More than one or two a day and you will get blocked.

The ice breaker of choice for me has been using Facebooks’ SuperPoke to throw Toilet Paper. It reminds me of long ago nights sneaking about looking for the teachers house. Oops I did not say that did I?

Many of my subscribers I have targeted specifically by using social network ice breakers. I use these ice breakers to pick out key people in the SEO industry with the intent of them seeing me and subscribing to my blog. Once they I believe that they are getting to know me I will go farther and pick off one by one to become closer and enter their inner circles. Once I have reached these inner circles asking for an interview or other such favors will be that much easier.

How can you regurgitate the online ice breaking process to your benefit?

Lets start with Facebook. Have you targeted other bloggers in your niche? I am talking about your A-list bloggers. The A-list bloggers in your niche are people that dominate Google Blog Search every time they write a post. Now add them as your friends and find out exactly what they are reading and searching for online. Once you know what they like, submit something that you think will get their attention, but do not run out and email them. Use something simple like a basic poke. If they poke back great they now are starting to know you. If they do not poke back not all is lost.

You should have at least 50 friends in your friends list for the next step. On Monday morning you are going to start with the top ten people you really want to know. They would have already added you as a friend, so they should have at least looked at your profile. Now you want them to keep coming back and reading at what you are writing. Go threw your list and Poke another ten each day till you have completed your list. While using this technique, you should have a few people that respond. These are going to be your best allies to writing reviews of your work, keep in contact with them. Once every few days poke back throw a sheep, do something to keep them interested. Then just before your next big announcement, contact them and let them know that you would like them to be the first to review your content. Since they are getting comfortable with you, most will be more than willing to write a desirable review.

But now that I have wrote this, the SEO industry is going to be spoiled, go find a niche that pays well too. Tomorrow I need to start working on my next list of bloggers to target…

Their is one side effect from doing this. I have met several people that I am now very privileged to now call friends. If you do not like people… well you would not have read this anyway.

Now it’s time for me to open a new batch of Toilet Paper!!!