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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Here it is, the keys to the blog-growth castle…
It’s not uber-networking, commenting on every high-traffic blog you can find, sucking up to big bloggers to get links, befriending social-medialites, installing plug-ins to get people to subscribe or thank them once they do or building your profile and family of friends.
Do those things help? Yes, but…
Only if you do one much more important thing really, really well. What’s that one thing?
Be insane.
- Insanely interesting
- Insanely entertaining
- Insanely informative
- Insanely useful
- Insanely provocative
- Insanely kind/compassionate
7 A-list bloggers get caught with their pants down
Monday, May 12th, 2008
I literally passed out when the news came my way…
Since joining the blogging community, I’ve become privy to a growing feed of scandalous information about major players in the blogging arena. And, until now, I’ve kept my mouth shut, but this latest round of news is just too good to keep to myself.
So here goes…
Horrifying link between twitter and butt-size
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
It wasn’t so long ago…
You wanted to talk to someone down the hall, so, rather than tweeting, IMing or e-mailing, you got up off your butt, walked to their office and, stay with me, you actually stood in front of them and had a conversation. A real live, eyeball to eyeball, face to face, mannerism-twitching, body-language-revealing conversation.
God bless technology…
It’s made it so that we don’t have to move more than a mouse-click to share our message. All this has been great for productivity (not too great for stress and expectations) and allowed us to talk to people all over the world all day and night, even when they’re just down the hall.
Prove it or lose it: how social proof can kill or fill your blog
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Picture this…
You’re walking down the street and the shop in the corner has a big glowing sign that says, “Marketing geniuses. We can pack any business with customers, leverage cutting-edge technology, make the world talk about you and get customers to run screaming to hand over their life-savings.”
Wow, nice promise. Global domination in a day.
Then, you peer in the window and see a dimly lit office, beat up furniture, a single person behind a desk, an IBM 386 on the desktop, a rotary phone, dust all over the place and the guy behind the desk kicked back reading a newspaper, drinking coffee and having a leisurely lunch at 2pm.
Subtle changes to blog design, bring on the Twitter
Friday, April 25th, 2008
Happy Friday all!
This morning, I launched a few subtle changes to the blog design:
- Bye bye sumo-dude. I took down the little sumo guy on the top right side in the get updates box. The sumo dude was cute, but wasn’t really adding much beyond being a distraction. Almost nobody clicked on his image or listened to the audio message.
If you wanna graffiti my blog, ask first
Friday, April 4th, 2008
Imagine you come home from work one day to find the word “moron” spray painted on your front door in bright red.
What do you do? Duh, the answer is so obvious!
You go and get your own can of even-brighter spray paint and, directly underneath the word “moron,” write “am not.”
What’s that? That’s not what you’d do? Heck, no!
You’d run to the garage, get the paint-remover and scrub it off as fast you could.
Persuasion and the power of patterns and expectations
Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
In baseball, there’s a pitch called a change-up.
It’s generally slower and easier to hit than other pitches, but, more often than not, it ends up as a strike. Why? Because batters react as much to what they expect will be coming their way as they do to what actually comes their way.
It’s all about expectations and patterning.
In fact, we all do the very same thing all day long. We respond to the circumstances of each day based, in part, on what those circumstances really are and, in part, on what we project or expect based on prior experience.
For the last time, blogging is not passive income
Monday, March 24th, 2008
A few months back, I wrote an article describing my feelings about certain myths associated with passive income.
Okay, so I pretty much called the whole “get rich from passive-income” thing a big, fat scam!
It is directly controverted by a bunch of research, including a fascinating study that showed how very few U.S. pentamillionaires made their money passively or inherited it. For the most part, they worked their butts off trying to solve a problem that affected a huge number of people. And, their success came after years of decades in a relatively short burst or event.
Paying top-bloggers to guest post: a brewing storm?
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Recently a reader asked me this question:
Many probloggers recommend submitting guest posts to bigger, established sites to get the word out about a blog. What about asking these probloggers to guest post in return for payment? Is there a protocol for that? I mean, I’m talking about situations where you already have a relationship with the problogger. Not just sending random requests. And the hope is that the problogger would mention that he/she has a guest post up on the site and lead readers there.
Great question! Now, I have my own feelings about this, but I figured I’d get some top-bloggers to share theirs, too.
Strip Blogging: how naked will you go?
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
Did you ever write a deeply personal letter, one that revealed your insecurities, your desires, your triumphs and paper-thin humanity? Knowing the whole time you’d never send it, but wondering what might happen if, one day, you just let that sucker loose?
Well, there seems to be a new generation of bloggers who are doing just that, but instead of mailing it to one person…
They’re laying bare their lives to the world!
A few months back I was reading Penelope Trunk’s Brazen Careerist blog and my jaw dropped when I hit a post entitled, “My First Day Of Marriage Counseling” with the following line…
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