Today is my ninth blogging anniversary. On March 12, 2009 I published my first blog post using Blogger.com. You can find an archive of that post here. In it I listed a collection of topics I planned to “blog” about. I threw out almost all of those ideas once I found out what really worked….
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Gary Vaynerchuk’s $1.80 Strategy for Instagram
When you are first starting out, no one knows who you are. You pick a platform pump out some content and you get crickets. No traffic, no impressions, no likes, no comments, and no shares. The mistake a lot of people make is just to create more content. Eventually, they will get seen or heard,…
The Two Kinds of Bloggers
I’ve been blogging since 2009. I’ve read thousands of blog posts and written hundreds myself. I’ve experimented with different formats and found a lot of success in my career thanks to the practice of blogging. If it wasn’t for my “blog,” I wouldn’t be living my dream of becoming an author and professional speaker. This…
Identify Your Blogging Villain
Steven Pressfield started a series on his blog titled “Start with the Villain.” I haven’t written any fiction yet, but it sounds like great advice. It got me thinking this morning. “Start with the villain” is great advice for non-fiction writing, too. In fact, Pressfield is well known for his incredible work of non-fiction in…
Newsletter Names: Don’t call your email newsletter a “newsletter.” Use one of these ideas instead.
I heard Nick Stephenson say in an interview that renaming his email “Newsletter” as a “Reading Group” increased the number of people that signed up. Listen to the full interview here: Getting Your First 10,000 Readers with Nick Stephenson (Self-publishing School Podcast) He pointed out that no one wants to sign up for a newsletter,…
