We are happy to offer a playback of Week One Webinar, Develop a Blog Business Plan.

There is still time to register here for the remainder of the session. This is the final eight-week series in 2008; the price for No Blogger Left Behind will be $297 starting in January, 2009.

Here is a handout for Week One.

We are pleased to announce that we are making a $25 contribution for each No Blogger Left Behind registration to CARE for humanitarian relief.

Sites and sources referenced in the Webinar are hyperlinked in the PDF handout. Other sources mentioned in the Webinar include:

• Mary Pope-Handy's award-winning blog, Live in Los Gatos
• Mary Pope-Handy's Haunted Real Estate Blog

Mary Pope Handy was a brand new blogger last spring. She launched her first blog, LiveInLosGatos.com as my Blog Apprentice under the watchful eyes of thousands of real estate agents and bloggers during the Project Blogger Contest sponsored by Inman News and ActiveRain. I had the privilege of working with Mary as her Blog Coach. She won the contest handily and she reflects upon the last year at her ActiveRain Blog.

Mary has numerous blogs now. One of my favorites is her Haunted House Blog. She launched another gorgeous new blog last week. ALMOST everything about that blog is perfect: design, illustrations, writing!

I confess that the title of this blog has my Blog Coach hormones raging out of control, however, and I have to give Mary a shout about her URL:

 www.SanJoseRealEstateLosGatosHomes.com

Mary, What are you thinking, girl! You have the keenest, most wonderful style in the Blogosphere ... your other blogs are wearing finery from their domain names to the smallest detail of their construct. Haunted House Blog is wonderful ... Live in Lost Gatos is easy to remember ... but San Jose Real Estate Los Gatos Homes????  This is a name that speaks to SPIDERS, not PEOPLE. It has no heart, no soul.

I beseech you to shed that awful, boring URL for something that befits a Mary Pope Handy blog. Your blog needs a more elegant name, something that reflects YOU.

Invite interactivity on your blog in more than just the COMMENTS section. Invite guest authors to write stories that you can share. Mary Pope-Handy, a REALTOR in Los Gatos, CA, publishes Live In Los Gatos for her local market. She was the winning Blog Apprentice in last year's Inman News/ActiveRain Project Blogger competition (photo at right l. to r: Mary Pope-Handy, Frances Flynn Thorsen, and Joeann Fossland hold check for CARE, the grand prize in the contest). Mary also publishes a niche blog, The Haunted Real Estate Blog. I wrote a piece for her yesterday about a an experience that I had when I was showing a house in eastern Pennsylvania.

Teresa Boardman publishes a highly successful  blog, St. Paul Real Estate. She has a regular contributor, Erik Hare, who writes a post for her every Sunday. It is one of the many ingredients in Teresa's formula for a highly successful real estate blog.  

In 2006, Joeann Fossland popularized Blog Guest Posting with her Coachadelic Blog Tour for CARE. She visited numerous blogs over several months with guest posts to raise money for humanitarian programs around the globe. Her Web Women Giving Circle raised about $25,000 for CARE.

RealTown Blogs has a multi-author, time-saving function that lets you grant author privileges to others.