New Military Blog

Skinny Moose Media has expanded its blogs from hunting and fishing to outdoor sports and recreation, to sports, and we have now opened it up to military style blogs. So I would like to introduce our first military blog called Ramblings of an Old Soldier. We have it listed as Old Soldier as he served in the Armed Forces in many wars and now has a lot to share. John also blogs at Coyote John a predator hunting site out of Arizona.

So make your way over to his new Old Soldier blog and check it out. The following is his bio:

I was born at a very young age, to parents who were actually married to each other. I know it’s a rare phenomena these days but it use to happen quite regular in the early 40’s. Grew up in western PA in a very rural community and belonged to the FFA and 4H which is what got me into predator hunting. As a FFA project I was raising a flock of Leghorn Hens which started disappearing at a regular basis. Set up in the hen house one night with my Model 12 Winchester 16 gauge and ended up killing my first grey fox, haven’t stopped since. Married my high school sweetheart, still married to her today, another one of them rare phenomenal things, have 4 children who are all married, the oldest being in her early 40’s and the youngest in her early 30’s, can’t tell you how old they exactly are, being girls they would take exception to their dad giving out that info. Strange as it may seem they too are all still married, must of been the poor up-bringing and bad example my wife and I have set for them. We have a total of six grandkids 4 boy and 2 girls and if’n I knew grandkids were so much fun I’d never would have had kids, I’d just have grandkids. Joined the Army right out of high school and enjoyed everyday of it, for 24+ years. Couldn’t believe they gave me a rifle and tent and rations and had to live in the boonies for weeks at a time, who wouldn’t enjoy that lifestyle. Somewere along they way they wanted to know if’n I like to jump out of airplanes, having never even been in an airplane before I was wondering why anybody would want to jump out of one, so I did, for almost the next 20 years. Then they sent me to a far away land and people actually wanted to kill us when all we wanted to do was help them, still can’t figure that one out. At any rate got a visit one day out in the jungle from a guy named Abrahams, had 4 damn stars on each shoulder and 4 on his hat, never seen a 12 star general before, said he heard some stories about me and wanted to make me an officer. I knew them there officer made more money, had newer cars and better housing so I said sure. Who ever said the Army had no sense of humor sure didn’t know what they were talking about. Finally retired in 1984, opened a gun and ammo store and did some guiding on the side. That got to be work so we sold that and I took up beer drinking. Them came September 11, 2001 started calling everyone I knew to see if’n I could get back into uniform. As luck would have it I found myself in another land just a few short months later with a whole new bunch of people trying to kill me. Made it out of there 2 years later, came back home and got a job as a buyer for a electrical wholesale house, did that for a few years and then fully retired. Now I still drink beer and fine bourbon and have become of all thing a “blogger”. Still trying to figure out what I want to become when I grow up.

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Skinny Moose Media Starts Up New Rodeo Blog

As Skinny Moose Media expands into Sports blogs we are happy to announce a new Rodeo blog called HumpsNHorns. Norm who also blogs at Outdoors With Norm, spent 8 years while living out West riding bulls. Having a hard time giving up one of his passions he has decided to follow the sport and blog about it. Please take the time to head over to HumpsNHorns and welcome him to the Skinny Moose Network.

The following is a bio:

Hello, my name is Norm Sargent. My friends and family members call me “Cowboy”. I grew up on the east coast and was raised around race horses. After high school I moved out west to where I was introduced to the great world of rodeo. I quickly fell in love with this great sport. I became a “rodeo cowboy” and continued this way of life for 8 years until I moved back east to be with my family. I continue to follow rodeo and as a dad to a two year old son plan on introducing him to this great way of life early on in his life.

Skinny Moose Media Continues to Grow

Skinny Moose Media is the fastest growing hunting, fishing, and outdoor blog Network. It is the only one of its kind and has been offering aspiring writers not only a place to publish their own articles but actually making a little money doing it. Skinny Moose has been around on the web for about a year, since early 2006, but just in the last several months we have seen lots of growth in the number of blogs, and in the number of potential advertisers, which ultimately helps pay our bloggers to do what they love.

There are great things in store for Skinny Moose and we look forward to a very busy year ahead of us as we continue to create new blogs and grow.

We encourage people to join Skinny Moose if they follow a certain criteria. First off you should enjoy writing about your passions as an outdoor enthusiast. You also have to enjoy being part of a team and tossing around ideas to help make you, as a blogger, better at what you do. And at the same time, you can make some money on the side from advertisers. The more active your blog becomes the more money you will find in your pocket at the end of the month.

Right now Skinny Moose is about to launch a few more blogs bringing the total blog count to around 30. We plan to increase that number as we move forward. So if you want to be a part of a growing online community centered around writing about your passions and blogging 4 or 5 times per week then please contact us and let us know. Ask some of the other bloggers in the community first. This may help determine whether Skinny Moose is right for you.

You can see for yourself what some of our current bloggers have said about Skinny Moose Media since they have been blogging with us. Enjoy!

“Joining Skinny Moose Media is a unique opportunity for the outdoor blogger to worry about sharing life’s lessons from the deer stand, instead of worrying about the tougher details of blogging. Skinny Moose provides it’s bloggers with accountability, advice, and an encouraging support network of other bloggers. Sometimes it feels like we are sitting around a virtual campfire discussing our most recent hunting or fishing trip. I think we’d all agree time spent around the campfire is always beneficial.”

Bill Anderson
Muskoka Outdoors
Trout Waders

“In my short time as a contributor to the Skinny Moose media family I have truly found a voice here for all things outdoors. All of the writers and staff here are not only professonal they are like family to me. What can I say….I wouldn’t want to write anywhere else.”

Brent Reece
(Aroostookbasser)
Aroostook Flyers and Tyers

My name is “SID”, I have a blog called SIDs paintball. I have been blogging with Skinny Moose Media for only a short time, but found that it was one of the funnest decisions I have made. Everyone here is fantastic and willing to help. I have met so many great bloggers and am honored to be part of the group.

SID
SIDs paintball

“Skinny Moose is an amazing group of people that love to share their ideas, tips, and memories with other people. I have been part of this community of people since early on and have seen this group grow. This community continues to become stronger and just as fine wine becomes better with age, so does Skinny Moose Media.”

Norm Sargent
Outdoors With Norm

“Since I have been blogging with Skinny Moose Media I have learned so much that it is almost addictive. I look forward to posting something everyday and sometimes more than once. Everyone with Skinny Moose Media has been very helpful especially when I did not know a thing when I started and I am still learning.”

Richard Kratzke
Tails and Trails

“Hey, John here. I write the Nutria News blog and find it fun, and challenging. When I started I knew nothing about blogs, and still don’t know that much. My blog deals with hunting and fishing in Louisiana, and I do commentary on legislative issues which threaten our 2nd Amendment rights and our ability to carry on the hunting traditions taught to us by our forefathers.”

Hello. My name is Rick Passek. I am the author of “The Fledgling FlyFisher” Blog. I have been blogging with Skinny Moose for some time now and have learnt much about how to improve my Blog and get traffic to it from Steve Remington (The Adminisrator of Skinny Moose) There have been times that I would get a writers block, But I found that Steve and the others at Skinny moose were always there to help out and get the creative juces flowing again. I look forward to Blogging more in the future with Skinny moose and I look forward to all the posts by the other authors involved with SkinnyMoose.
Rick Passek

“I really like Skinny Moose, because it is informative and I can see what’s going on in other parts of the country.”

Garth
Bow Hunting Maniac

“WOW, what a great source of information. Great info and great people. Look forward to a long and lasting relationship with Skinny Moose media.”

John Petrello
Coyote John

Steve Remington

New Bass Fishing Blog

Skinny Moose Media was hoping to expand out into more fishing blogs over the next few months so we were happy to add a new bass fishing blog authored by Mike Carroll who is currently residing in Dexter, Maine just off the shores of Lake Wassookeag. Mike Carroll, or preferably called M.C., is now blogging at M.C.Bass.

Please welcome Mike to Skinny Moose and go check out his new blog. Here is his bio below:

M.C. Bass was born in Eastern Maine and spent time in places such as Queens, New York and El Paso Texas while growing up.. but the bulk of his child and teen years were spent in Maine from Plantation 21 to the Belgrade Lakes-where he developed his passion for fishing and exploring the Maine Outdoors.

M.C. enlisted in the U.S. Navy after High School and spent several years chasing the ultimate fish, Soviet Nuclear Submarines, from a P-3 Orion aircraft around the Mediterranean, Atlantic and Artic Oceans. It was during a short stint in San Diego, California that he developed a love for Bass Fishing in particular. After attending the University of Maine as a Zoology Major, M.C.s love for Bass Fishing spiraled into true obsession.

Currently, M.C. resides near the shores of Lake Wassookeag in Dexter, Maine with the love of his life and their two children. He is a member of at least two bass fishing organizations and spends between 120-150 days on the water each year.

M.C. Bass is founder and director of Mainebass.com, a website and organization envisioned as conduit of information between Bass Anglers, the State of Maine and Landowners. Maine lakes are increasingly becoming the subject of confrontation between the people that use them and the people that reside on them. Mainebass.com desires to foster respect and understanding between all users of this precious Maine resource.

Steve

Blind Ambitions - Waterfowl and Dog Training Blog

Skinny Moose Media has just launched a new and unique blog to the Network. Blind Ambitions will be centered around waterfowling and training up hunting dogs. Our contributors is Dan from Moose Droppings and a new blogger, Billy Mosley from North Carolina.

Head over and welcome them to the Network.

Check out Billy’s bio below:

I was born and raised in central Florida, but moved to North Carolina bout 9 years ago. I have hunted my entire life and chased critters all over the country. My passion lies with waterfowl hunting and water dogs. I own and operate Avery Creek Retrievers and Guide Service, where we guide waterfowl hunts and work/train retrievers. I married my wife Nicole, in November of 2005. We live in the small rural town of Boiling Springs, North Carolina. Currently we own 4 labs and a cat. I enjoy any type of outdoor activities from just sitting on a farm pond with a cane pole, to being 60 miles offshore bottom fishing, to riding ATV’s, or just firing up the grill and cooking out. Nothing beats hanging out with my wife, my friend sand my dogs.

Another New Channel Opens, Makes Room for Paintball Blog

Skinny Moose Media is pleased to announce our very first outdoor sports blog. Sid will be blogging about paintballing at Sid’s Paintball. You can learn all there is to know about the sport as Sid lives and breaths the sport. Head on over and welcome him to the Network.

Here is a brief bio of Sid:

I live in Sullivan, ME. I have a beautiful wife of seven years and a terrific son who will always be my little man. I have played Paintball for almost 17 years and find that there is nothing that relieves stress better than the sport of Paintball.

Steve

The Top 5 Reasons to Join a Blog Network

Community - One of the first reasons most people join a blog network is simply because of community. There are always people in the Network looking to not only help each other out but just get to know each other. Here at Skinny Moose Media we sometimes don’t always talk about blogging and there have been some good off-topic conversations. Of course we are always talking and brainstorming about how to make things better, we can always rely on each other for conversations based on a number of different things. And how hard is it to just throw up a blog and get an instant sense of community? It takes time and there is nothing wrong with it but Skinny Moose Media already has an ongoing, new, and exciting community of people who are genuine.

Search Engine Optimization - Adding a blog to a network, or joining one, can really help when it comes to Search engine results. Our goal as a Network is become found through search results and we have been having some good performance. When you join up your blog becomes linked immediately to an entire community of blogs and it will not only be found through links but Search engines favor blogs and websites that have some type of relevancy such as those who have incoming links.

Traffic - One of the greatest parts of joining a Network is seeing traffic almost immediately. When you become part of a community and your network launches your blog, you will be given initial readership. It is your job from there to keep up that traffic and work together to continue to build it. The other thing to keep in mind is that as the network grows so will you, as you are part of it. So traffic is something a network can generate more of, which most individual blogs sitting out in cyberspace alone will have a more difficult time finding it.

Increased Revenue Potential - It is difficult to start new blogs and get the revenue one desires. The potential to make more money by joining a blog network is that much greater. Not only from a boost in traffic or better search engine results, but because there is a desire for advertisers to seek out Networks and not individual blogs. Networks provide a variety of benefits that individual blogs can’t, and, in turn, will then benefit all the blogs in the network.

For instance, Outside Hub a marketplace that enables advertisers, publishers, and ad networks to efficiently trade media, and in turn allows blog networks to earn revenue at the same time offering advertisers highly targeted readership. Outside Hub can affectively sell advertising to Networks which will benefit all the bloggers in the community.

Expertise/Administrative Work - Though you may be an expert in what you blog about, blog networks are experts in what they do too. And by joining heads you can become a powerful force. Think of all the Administration work that the network will do for you and all you, as a blogger, really needs to do is write blog posts, and worry about promoting and networking with others in your niche. So by joining a blog network you can leave the administrative work up to them and the blogging up to you. For those who work full or part time, this will give you more time to do the writing and less time fiddling with technical issues and administrative work.

Steve Remington
President/CEO
Skinny Moose Media

Update: This article is part of a Problogger writing project.

Creating a New Channel

Skinny Moose Media has made some changes and has grown to expand into a new channel. We currently have Hunting, Fishing, The Great Outdoors, and now Guides. The purpose of this channel is to bring about blogs in each state that will allow hunting, fishing, and other outdoor Guides to post some of their success stories, events that might be going on, and just engage in dialog with readers.

This idea surfaced because of an ongoing concern for those who were looking for Guide services that could meet and even exceed their own expectations. People for instance were booking hunts in far away lands and not knowing a thing about their soon to be Guide who would be taking them out and showing them a once in a lifetime opportunity. Hunters and Fishermen alike will now have an opportunity to see in the form of a blog the opportunities that await them prior to their hunting trip.

Right now we have opened our first blog in the state of Maine. Feel free to go and look at the Maine Guides Journal where Maine Guides will have the opportunity to post freely any information they feel will be pertinent to their cause, such as press releases, success stories, photos, events, and more.

Joining Skinny Moose Media

Have a listen to my latest podcast on how to join our Network. We make blogging fun and easy, and you may actually make some money doing it. Are you qualified? Have a listen and determine for yourself.

Steve

Tails and Trails Joins the Skinny Moose Network

Nothing like whitetail deer hunting. Welcome Rick from Connecticut who will be blogging about whitetail hunting. You can find tips, news, info, stories, pictures and reviews over at Tails and Trails.

Head on over and welcome Rick to Skinny Moose Media. Below is a photo and short bio. Click on the picture to get the full size…

Hello, My name is Richard Kratzke and I have lived in Connecticut all my life. I live in the town of Ashford with my wife Heidi of 21 years and my two sons Adam and Tyler. I have been hunting the Whitetail Deer for 17 years. It has become an obsession of mine. When I am not working or hunting you can usually find me in the woods scouting or at the gun range.

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