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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…
Awake At The Wheel Is Evolving
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008
For those of you who tuned this morning, you’ve probably noticed a whole bunch of design changes in the blog. This actually reflects a bunch of much bigger stuff that going on behind the scenes, all to benefit…you!
Here are the highlights…
Two new great blogs: Write To Done and Anywired
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
I am always on the look-out for great blogs about writing and freeing up where, when and how you work. So, I was so thrilled when my friends, Leo and Skellie each launched new blogs that are not only generating instant buzz, but delivering some great content.
Skellie’s Anywired blog offers great ideas, tools and interviews for anyone looking to work their job around their life, not the other way around. She’s got some great interviews up, too!
Building business and blogs with extreme value
Friday, January 25th, 2008
Every once in a while, you stumble upon a story or an experience that brings you back to Earth.
Something that reminds you to ask if you’re spending enough time creating extreme value…instead of extreme image.
The Name Killer: how the wrong name took down a $2-million business in 2-weeks
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
It’s got to be the biggest fear of every new entrepreneur.
You pour a ton of money into a new venture, devote relentless hours to get it going. It’s perfect in every way. But, within hours of launching, you realize something is wrong. Not leaky faucet wrong. Not temporary signage wrong…but head-on crash, fatally wrong.
How can something so apparent have been so hidden?
How to make every word you write unputdownable
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Ever read a James Patterson novel? I have. Every one.
And, every time I do, I curse the bastard!
Not the character, but Mr. Patterson himself. Why? Because…I don’t want to stay up until 4am to finish, really I don’t. But, he grabs me with the opening line, hurls me in, then greases the slide thoroughly-enough to render me powerless to stop my screaming descent to the last page.
He makes it un-put-downable.
Is he a master of story-telling, plot-development and suspense? Sure. But, he’s also a master of a handful of literary techniques that appear in the world of direct-response copywriting. They’re the ones that compel you to read long after you’ve decided you really don’t have time to devote another second to the book, blog or ad.
And, once you know them, they’ll give you the near-magical ability to make almost everything you write, from ads to blog-posts and letters to books, a giant step closer to un-putdown-able, too.
Top bloggers confess: size matters!
Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
This article is the third installment in my top-blogger’s roundtable series. Here, I’ve asked a celebrity panel the following question:
Does post length affect readership growth and, if so, how?
And, this is the pure-gold they revealed…
To Niche or not to niche: Top bloggers tell all
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
“If you are drawn to write on a broad variety of topics (3-5) even if there is a remotely common thread, are you better off doing it on a single blog or creating several niche blogs for each one?”
I recently posed the this question to a round-table of top-bloggers and social-medialites and here’s what they revealed…
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