One of the most powerful, overlooked methods of blog promotion is making blogger friends. Blogs that have overlapping audiences with your own are read by people who would probably read your blog. They are also written by people who would read your blog. People who would promote your blog. If you were friendly. How do [...]
I looked around, surprised at the sudden silence: I had a moment to write. It was a Saturday. The kids were getting into the car with my wife, and I had an hour to myself, alone with my laptop. A few years ago, I would have spent the first ten minutes preparing to write. Instead, [...]
I post on a lot of different blogs every month. If you want to see where else I'm writing, here is a sample from January. The Ace of Sales blog Top 4 Time Savers for Social Media - I review my favorite 4 time-saving tools in social media. (I manage more than 50 social [...]
On a high quality self-marketing blog that I manage, when someone would add a comment that included an apostrophe, the apostrophe would populate on the page with a backslash behind it. From ' to /' every time. I could manually edit these in the Wordpress backend, or even use a search and replace plugin on [...]
There are nearly seven billion people in the world today. Why would anyone stop what they’re doing and talk to you? It's an important question for anyone, but if you’re involved in sales, self-marketing, or running your own business, you have to be interesting to new people all the time. New customers, new prospective customers, [...]
As a content marketer, I read a lot of blogs. Many of the blogs I read are about content marketing in general, and about getting more customers through content marketing in particular. This week, I read these 5 blog posts and realized they contain everything a beginning content marketer needs to get up and running [...]
Using 2 cameras in 2 performances, we got plenty of great shots for this breakdancing performance in Costa Rica. The lighting was challenging, and the pixel aspect ratios on the cameras were all different. We overcame these challenges to make a decent music video.
With my backpack and cell reception, I can functionally work from anywhere I please. The beach, the mountains, a Central American cafe, or out in the wilderness...wherever I have my backpack, cell reception, and time, I can work. I can write, or post, or call, or Skype, with anyone, anywhere in the world, from anywhere [...]
I don’t like to reinvent the wheel. I prefer to find out what successful people are doing, and model how they are doing it. Chris Brogan wrote an excellent blog post some time ago about how he prioritized his day. The man is a content output machine; he is one of the indisputable masters of [...]
You're setup with an email newsletter, but nobody is subscribing. Dangle the carrot, or I'll give you the stick. People are already dealing with information overload in their email inboxes. In order to overcome someone's reluctance to add to their inbox problem, you have to solve a different problem for them. Offer to solve a [...]