Create Business Growth – Find 2 to10 Extra Hours Per Week With One Simple Action
Christine writes a great article about how to be more productive using some techniques from the 4-Hour Workweek.

Pro Blog Design – Weekly Wrap-up: Why Redesign A Blog?
Michael writes about why blog redesign is all the rage now. Hint: two major blogger redesigns helped.

Alex Shalman – Never Lose A Great Idea Again
Alex talks about how to never lose a great idea again.

ViperChill Marketing – ViperChill Video No.1 ~ Introduction
Glenn’s first stab at video podcasting. Nice work, buddy!

CashQuests – Find Money By Creating A Screenshot Of Your Site
Kumiko gives us a make money online opportunity by leveraging our shorter posts.

Writing For and By Coaches – Blogging for Coaches
Great article about how blogging has helped this author.

Untwisted Vortex – Confessions of a Blogaholic
RT Talks about being addicted to blogging.

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All of these posts are must reads. Congratulations to this week’s Powerful Posts:

Blogtrepreneur – How I Made $506 Blogging In July 2007
Adnan admits that when he first started blogging, he was very much in it for the money. However, he has been patient at monetizing his blog and clearly sees the bigger reward of establishing long term and loyal relationships, and guess what – the money is starting flowing in. He made $506 through blogging in July. Definitely a solid income for a 17 year old!

Meridian Crest – A Better Way to Estimate Keyword & Niche Traffic 
Scot shows us a better way to research keywords and traffic. Scot has been on a roll lately with both informative and highly useful posts. Way to go, Scot!

Problogger – We’re Entering New Design Transition Phase
Problogger enters a new era with a radically different design. Personally, I think it is awesome. Very crisp and pleasant to look at. Definitely worth checking out. Congrats, Darren!

Zoomstart – Get Out of Debt, Part 1: Stop the Bleeding
I have always appreciated Shane at Zoomstart for being not only very knowledgeable, but also a superb writer on a number of topics related to business and finance. He just wrapped up the third part in his series, “How To Get Out of Debt.” I recommend you read part one before the others, but they are well worth the read for anyone who is a little bit over their heads in debt.

Matt Blancarte – What is your core competency?
What makes your business remarkable? Up and coming blogger Matt Blancarte asks us the vital question, “What is your core competency?” A great read for anyone who is currently developing a business.

King Nomar – How Google Might Filter Annoying Pages
King Nomar writes about a recent patent filing by Google which could filter offensive ads through AdWords. Basically, if you web site contains flash elements or any “objectionable” material, Google will find out and hunt you down. Be scared.

ViperChill Marketing – 2 Social Media Marketing Failures
Glen shows us two poorly executed social media marketing campaigns. An interesting read if you are considering some kind of social media marketing for your business. Nice work, Glen.

Net Writing – Is it good To Diversify a Niche Blog?
Tejvan outlines the positives and negatives of diversifying a niche blog. Do the pros outweigh the cons? I have been considering how to diversify a few profitable sites I have been working on. Well worth the read.

David Airey – 1 year anniversary prize giveaway
Congratulations to David for his 1 year blogiversary which is coming up. David is celebrating his blogiversary by giving away a bunch of awesome prizes from some industry experts. Yours truly will even be contributing a prize!

Blogging Tips – 10 Ways to Get More Interaction from Your Readers Today
Kevin and his Blogging Tips crew show us ten awesome ways to encourage more reader interaction. This is a topic I’ve talked about quite a bit, but Kevin covers a lot of great points I failed to mention. Great post! Hopefully Kevin and I will swap guest-blogging duties in the next week – that should be fun!

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Stephen Welton – Dala Lama – Risk Something Already!

Blog About Your Blog – Don’t Underestimate The Power Of Link Love

Community Spark – Get to know and understand your members

Daily Web Ideas – The Essential Guide To Building Successful Web Sites Ebook

Meridian Crest – 5 Plugins That Automate Reader Service

Web Ink Now – Smart Marketers are statistically improbable according to Amazon.com

ProBlogger – Write a Tip Post – Rediscover Your Blogging Groove

David Airey – One vital addition to any monetized blog or website

King Nomar – One-way links, reciprocal links, three-way-links. What’s best?

Blogtrepreneur – How You Can Find That One Big Idea

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Welcome to the latest installment of my Powerful Posts series!

King Nomar – Nobody Said It was Easy!

Patrick Lee – Diversify your goals

Hoobin Resource Center – LinkBait : Pragmatic Way To Unleash “Content Is King”

FundZine – Your Retirement Power: Common Sense Approach

Matt Blancarte – perseverance and why you need it

Josh Mullineaux – I Think I’m Turning Geek… I Really Think So…

Sam Breadstone – What you should think about when you first start your blog?

Stephen Welton – The How and Why You Should Start Leveraging Video

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Betshop Boy – Personalize Your Blog Posts – Add a Signature

iFFECT.net – Contrast and Readability

A Tentative Personal Finance Blog – 9 Questions To Ask A Financial Planner

Organized Mashup – Blogging for Business

Patrick Lee – Diversify your goals

Create Business Growth – If you are going to blog, do it with integrity

Smart Wealthy Rich – Brainstorming Is Useless If You Can’t See The Big Picture

Suncoast Scribe – To Incorporate or Not To Incorporate

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iFFECT.NET – Why WordPress Is The Only Blogging Platform I’d Recommend

Create Business Growth – A Smart Game for Prioritizing Your Goals

Stephen Welton – Ferrari Fast Lane! Do You Know What Success Feel’s Like?

Antbag.com – The Great Blogging Conflict

Community Spark – Never stop experimenting

Josh Mullineaux – What Would You do with Unlimited Funds?

Technology Evangelist – Authenticity in Blog Comments and Product Reviews

A2 Business Blog – Are Personal Posts a Bad Thing?

Aim For Awesome! – Seeing the “Big Picture”, a very useful Lifehack!

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Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

Welcome to this week’s Powerful Posts. This is the time when I get to highlight some of the great blog posts I have seen around my community.

This Week’s Powerful Posts…

Josh Mullineaux – The Difference Between Being Rich and Being Wealthy

Blog Clout – Easy Trick to Achieve All Your Goals

Zoomstart – Leverage. It’s How You Make Big Money In Anything

Founders Cafe – Ultimately, is growing your blog worth the effort?

David Airey – Here’s your advice for writing effective press releases

Mr. Gary Lee – Optimize your Landing Page with Google Optimizer

Smart Wealthy Rich – Are You And Your Business Prepared For Growth?

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A Few Other Articles & Mentions…

Carl Ocab is giving away $220 worth of prizes in a contest for his birthday.

My good buddy, Matt Coddington, recently auctioned off and sold his popular blog, Net Business Blog. It will be interesting how the blog does without its original life-force.

Better than Google? This guy thinks so. Interesting article on a new search technology which could be BETTER than Google’s. Thanks to Scot for the heads up.

Thanks, everyone, for the Powerful Posts!

Welcome to the latest installment of my Powerful Posts series. For those who are new readers to my blog, every so often I like spread some link love to great articles I find around the blogosphere (and especially my community).

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This Week’s Powerful Posts…

Pick the Brain – 27 Lessons Learned on the Way to 3000 Visits a Day and 2200 RSS Subscribers

Community Spark – Give your site personal appeal

Everybody Go To – RSS Reader Base != Number of Comments

Andreas Bard – Handling Criticism

David Airey – What inspires you?

IFFECT.net – Text Link Ads – Are They A Thing Of The Past?

RandLIFE – How do you feel about paid reviews?

Thanks, everyone, for the Powerful Posts!

Zoomstart – Does Your Personality Fit The Business?

Jane May Blogs – Turn $100 Per Day Into $300 Per Day

Julie Anne Bonner – Website Wednesday/Article Marketing

Coopreme – Dealing With Adwords Quality Score

Iffect.net – 101 Tips To Drive Traffic Away From Your Blog

King Nomar – Semantic Indexing Continues

Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

Center of Muse – My Top 10 Tips on: Writing, by Meg Meyer

David Airey – The gaming of Technorati favorites?

Community Spark – Make your site feedback friendly

Andreas Bard – Mingle Tips

A2-Blog – 7 Ways to Impress Anyone in Business

Take More Risks – Monetizing New Blogs – Is It Really Worth It?

Zoomstart – Measuring Time: How Much Time Does It Take To Build a Business?

Jane May Blogs – How to Make $100 Per Day

Smart Wealthy Rich – Pillar Content vs Link Trains

Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

BTW, if anyone wants to enter part 2 of my 1000th comment contest, there is only 1 other entry, so your chances of winning $25 and a blog review would be 1 in 2. Not bad.

Welcome to the latest installment of my Powerful Posts series – a collection of interesting posts I have seen from community members around the ‘sphere.

the.[ED]ition – Blogging Basics: The Importance Of Being First

The Paper Bull – Free Business Tools

j david macor – The “Simplicity” School of Thought for Design

Jane May Blogs – Choosing Keywords For Your Web Site

Mr. Gary Lee – 10 Steps to Getting Links for Non-Bloggers

Andreas Bard – 5 ways to motivate others

Zoomstart – Chess Strategy For Business

Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

Welcome to the latest in my series of Powerful Posts in which I highlight some of the more interesting posts from the blogosphere.

This week, it was especially difficult to select single posts from members of my blogging community as everyone has been writing so much great content lately! Keep up the great work, everyone! That being said, here are my choices for cream of the crop blog posts:

45n5 – 2009 Google Whores And Problogger Splogging

bitbol – Google and control – not a good mix

Team Tutorials – Clean URL’s with WordPress

HarpzOn – Monetizing a Blog Without Using Ads/Affiliate Links

Josh Buckley – I want to work for google

Mr. Gary Lee – 10 Things to Remember in Web Marketing

Zoomstart – Going The Extra Mile: Ron Bass And The Ronettes

Staska.net – So, you have a brand new (make money blogging/online) blog?

Meridian Crest – Make the Interview Your First One Call Close

Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

Every week I like to browse my community blogs and provide some link love to my favorite posts. If you want to get on the Nate radar a.k.a. Nadar, please join my MyBlogLog community and/or just participate in my blog a little.

Zoomstart.com – Branding Your Blog. Does Your Blog Have A Greeter?

Jon Lee – Good Looking Color Themes to Avoid

David Airey – Logo design sketches that don’t work

Meridiancrest.com – Branding Your Blog: Create a Memorable Identity

The Paper Bull – two very classy ways to reward your readers

SmartWealthyRich.com – 5 Things You Might Want To Consider When Starting Your Online Business

WordPress Guy – Plugins: Category Icons made Easy

Trailblogging – advice for self employment

Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

Every week I like to browse my community blogs and highlight some my favorite posts. If you want on my radar, please join my MyBlogLog community.

HarpzOn – Finding Your Feet When Blogging

Goodword Editing – How Will Publishers Compete with FREE Content?

Career Ramblings – The Necessity of Professional Network

Mr. Gary Lee – Quick SEO Checklist

The Paper Bull – 50 things I learned this month while blogging

Ryan J. Parker – Does Your Blog Require a Login to Comment?

Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

This is the third installment of my Powerful Posts series. This is a collection of interesting articles and blogs I have come across from the community of fellow bloggers who frequents my blog.

Baron VC – Does Blog Censorship Work?

Hannes Jonhson – Celebrate Every Little Victory And You Will Achieve More

Formula One Blog – Environmentalists Hate Honda’s Earth Car?

The Wrong Advices – Web Fundamentals Bloggers Should Know About

Hate the Grind – How to Surive the Digg Effect

The Thinking Blog – Cult of Apple

Computer World – Cracking Google’s ‘secret sauce’ algorithm

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Thanks, everyone, for the powerful posts!

I love reading my fellow blogger’s blogs and would like to show the appreciation for their well-written and insightful work. This is the 2nd weekly set of links for what I will now call my “Powerful Posts” series.

Baron VC – Is Google Destroying Our Minds?

Career Ramblings – Weekend Quotes #4
- My favorite quote from the bunch: “There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.”

Daily Domainer – Registering Valuable Domains for Resale Profits

King Nomar – Huge Chaos at Registerfly

Ryan Parker – Two Books Every Blogger Should Read

Zane Jamal – Outsiders view on Apple marketing

Andreas Bard – The power of online communities

Take More Risks – Creating a New Website Vs Buying An Old One

Net Business Blog – The Secret to Utilizing All Social Media Sites

The Outboard Brain of a Geek – Blogging Privacy – To Write or Not To Write?

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Thanks everyone for the great write-ups!

In closing, I have come to the realization this week that success is never achieved instantly or without a great deal of effort.

If you want to be successful in what you do, you must, enjoy the journey, stay unbelievably dedicated, and most of all, be prepared to fail one thousand times before you succeed. They say those who succeed are those who fail the most.

Jay-Z has a great line from his song Blueprint 2: “But I will not lose, for even in defeat / There’s a valuable lesson learned, so it evens it up for me.”