Welcome to The Running Total dot com and thanks for coming. This post is our first official post and will be forever archived as the one post that either made us or broke us. So help us out, read on…you might actually enjoy it.In a world of overproduced, mass marketed, heavily duplicated blogs only the few sparkle like diamonds. What makes one blog better than another? Exactly the question you should be asking. (Thanks for the narrative Don Lafontaine)

There are literally millions of blogs out in the blogosphere and more created every day. As of December 2007 Technorati was tracking over 112 million blogs. In case that number doesn’t sink in here it is again 112,000,000. Here’s you: 1. As you can see there is a vast difference between those two numbers. You can see how easily this could overwhelm and discourage many ambitious bloggers, personally I just see it as a number. In my mind, which at times can be very distorted, 1 in 112,000,000 doesn’t carry any weight on my success. This can either make me a little crazy, or at the very least a little crazy but who cares about numbers? Blog about what you love, blog about what you know and success will find you. At the very least I want to motivate every one of my readers to do what they love. I can’t tell you how much I love breeding success. I find successful people are much happier and when your happy and you know it you clap your hands.

Now, what’s your Catchy, Brilliant and Unforgettable idea?

What Should I Call My Blog dot com

Hopefully the title explains it all. Now you’ve found your idea you must find a home for it. This home has to be somewhere your idea can relax, spread out and grow. Your domain name can make or break you. The best domain names are short and memorable kinda like Danny DeVito. Once you have an idea of the name you’d like to use see if it’s available at somewhere like GoDaddy dot com. If not try to use a similar name or something completely different just make sure it doesn’t end up being http://www.ivefinallyfiguredoutwhatiwanttocallmyblog.com because seriously who’s going to remember that. The other recommendation I have is to try refrain from using a number in place of to, two, too, or for. It makes too many variations and it also means your site will be less memorable.

The Knights Who Say Niche

Finding your voice will be a hugely important part of your idea. This is YOUR blog, write how you would. I try to do everything I can to be unique in a lot of my life but that’s how I am and that’s how I write. Some people are going to absolutely love your blog and hang onto every word, others won’t find it interesting at all. Lucky for you there are over 6 billion people in the world. If you figure at least .001% can access your blog and love it you’ll have 1,000,000 readers! How’s that for a reader base? Again it’s just a number and not very realistic but my point is you’ll find your readers. Your niche is out there but it will take time to pinpoint it, perfect it, and bring it on home.

Will you keep reading?

So what did you learn so far?

The identity of the movie trailer voice guy?
That I might just have an idea or two that can help you?
That success will come to you if you do what you love?

Whatever you learned I hope that you learned that I am here blogging for your success. I love helping people, I love positive energy and enthusiasm, and most of all I love my wife. If you enjoyed reading my ramblings, ideas, and corny jokes don’t forget to join my RSS. Thank you again for reading…Happy people take it away!!