Randy Gage is a world class speaker, author, consultant, and prosperity guru. In this Webside Chat, learn how such a successful guy (who has admittedly few technical web skills) can become massively successful with blogging and social marketing. How Randy does Twitter alone is worth the time to check this one out. He’s doing Twitter right. Real right!

Check out Randy Gage’s blog and grab some killer free stuff just for stopping by.  He’s one to follow!  (And if you have $60,000.00 or more burning in your pocket, you can hire Randy to speak to your group.)

This was a fun Webside Chat!

I interviewed pro blogger Veronica Noone (Roni) from RonisWeigh.com, GreenLiteBites.com, and BlogtoLose.com yesterday.  This “mommy blogger” uses everything at her disposal to create really great blogs with different media and a less “formulaic” approach to blogging in general.

The result is a high traffic set of blogs with die hard followers.

Here’s what you’ll learn from Roni:

1. Her super easy blog video production process (that anyone can do!)
2. Organic blogging:  how to drop the formulas and blog naturally
3. How (and why) she quit a great job to become a full-time blogger
4. How all her blogs are doing today, traffic, stats, and how she got where she is today in traffic and followers
5. The social sites she uses most, and how she uses them

Yep, this one is jam-packed with tips to help you become a bigger, better blogger!  Click the play button below to hear it all!

Krista is a work-at-home mom, organizing consultant, blogger, podcaster, e-socialite, and all-around over achiever. She’s appeared on TV, in newspapers and magazines of all shapes and sizes, and is a finalist for Best Organizing Blog.

Learn how Krista gets attention on the web and how she turned her business into a formidable online blogging presence with a membership site attached, called the sheBang.  Click Play below Krista’s pic to hear this Webside Chat!

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Picture an authority blogger who doesn’t know what an Alexa ranking is. Someone who blogs professionally, yet her RSS subscriber badge is buried in the footer of her site. Picture someone who is an ultra popular, successful blogger with one of the the biggest followings on the web for a personal blog not knowing really what it means to be a PR 7 site.

After all the times I’ve said that all that really matters is content that grabs people and leaves them wanting more, I’ve found the perfect example of a “pure blogger” who is reaping the rewards of cyber-stardom. All without knowing 1/2 of the marketing tactics and technology that people around here know about.

Her name is Heather Armstrong and she is the owner of Dooce.com, one of the most popular personal blogs on the web today, by any and all measures of site popularity. (Her latest post, just today, now has 662 comments. Eat that TechCrunch!)

She doesn’t run an internet marketing blog or a tech blog. Yet she’s still famous. Her blog provides for her family very well. But she doesn’t write about the kinds of things Scoble, Rowse, Clark, Beard, Arrington, or Cutts write about on their popular blogs.

She writes about her life and her family. And she does so in a way that makes you want more. In case you think I might be blowing up her success for the sake of “ratings,” she was interviewed in May by Nightline and the Today Show. (Both videos below) I’m just the dregs after Kathy Lee Gifford (who sucked the air right out of the end of the interview with Heather).

I might have sucked at interviewing Heather, but my claim to fame is that I certainly didn’t suck as bad as Kathy Lee! (Why is she still on TV?)

Today’s lesson is: grab people by the throat with your content and gain popularity one reader at a time (who tells other people they have to go see this blog they found!)

This is what I hope to be the first of several talks with Heather. She epitomizes blogging authority in the hardest niche of all: the personal blog.

Heather is also the author of “Things I Learned About My Dad In Therapy” Grab it on Amazon. Read it on Kindle.

Watch for her April release of “It Sucked and Then I Cried: How I Had a Baby, a Breakdown, and a Much Needed Margarita”

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• “Mommy Blogger” Heather Armstrong Monetizes The Hate [Crap E-mail From World] (jezebel.com)

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How does someone like Andy Beal manage his authority online? How did he turn MarketingPilgrim.com into an authority?

How about his book, Radically Transparent, or his new reputation monitoring site Trackur?

Find out all about Andy Beal, or as much as I could find out in 45 minutes! You don’t want to miss Andy’s system for monitoring over 200 RSS feeds to keep up with his industry efficiently.

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• Interview with Andy Beal: Reputation Management in 2009 (marketingpilgrim.com)

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How would you like to have Darren Rowse all to yourself for 45 minutes to ask him any questions you wanted about professional blogging? That’s just the chance I got today.

Darren was just starting his day in Australia and mine was just about over here in the States. We talked about things that I try to ask any professional blogger, but Darren has been on my wish list for quite awhile as I think of him as one of the original pro bloggers who are still at it today.

So I had some specific questions for ProBlogger as well. He’s one of the few online who can really shed light on the history of blogging while at the same time share what’s working now and where it’s all headed down the road.

For 2 years I’ve been asking my readers to check out Darren’s stuff. Now you can sit back and check him out right here and get to know him a bit. THEN go read every word he writes at ProBlogger!

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• Darren Rowse Hits 5,000 (blogherald.com)

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I talk with Michel Fortin about his blog and what he’s done to make it a hot spot for copywriting and other internet marketing tips and insights.

In this Webside Chat, learn how Michel blogs, how he handles subscribers, gets subscribers, syndicates content to pull in visitors and rank in the engines, and lots of other great tips on being an authority blogger. You don’t want to miss the tips Michel shares in this podcast!

I got lucky and caught John Biggs from CrunchGear with bit of time available this morning. CrunchGear is part of the Michael Arrington TechCrunch network. In this chat John talks about what he sees as the future of Web 2.0, social media and publishing.

We also talked about what its like being part of the “Axis of Gadgetry” with Engadget and Gizmodo. John is former Editor in Chief for Gizmodo, so I got to dig up some dirt and good stories about the fierce competition in the gadget reporting world.

Finally we covered social marketing and other things John thinks are most important for aspiring authority site owners. You won’t believe how many posts he made daily when he was working on CrunchGear alone! Nor how many they make now with writers around the world contributing 24 hours a day.

About John Biggs

CrunchGear Editor in Chief

Personal Blog: BigWideLogic

Writing Credits
John has published work in The New York Times, Laptop, Men’s Health, Linux Journal, Popular Science and many others. He also writes for TechCrunch.com. John is also the author of Black Hat: Misfits, Criminals, and Scammers in the Internet Age.