During the course of September, I’m working through Darren Rowse‘s ebook “31 days to build a better blog”. First assignment? Create an ‘elevator pitch‘. Here’s what I have so far… Short version? “e1evation.com is about educating, equipping and empowering” Long version? e1evation.com is about marketing, sales and technology for small business owners, non-profits and academic institutions. [...]
Shareaholic…
Here’s my new, favorite Firefox plugin… “Shareaholic makes it easy for you to submit the web page you’re on to your favorite sharing or bookmarking service, including: digg, del.icio.us, facebook, friendfeed, google bookmarks, google reader notes, kaboodle, magnolia, mixx, myspace, pownce, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, and ycombinator. You can also e-mail the web page directly [...]
10 Tips for Opening Your Next Blog Post
Having trouble posting? Listen to Darren Rowse… We all have a message drummed into us throughout life: people make snap judgements on you based upon the first impression you give. In many instances, those judgements are lasting ones.* The same is true for your blog posts. Your opening line really does matter—readers will make a [...]
10 Hard Truths About Blogging
With job satisfaction rates at record lows and more and more people looking to enjoy a higher quality of life, millions of people are desperately trying to leave their miserable jobs and are flocking to the world of blogging and Internet marketing.If you’re already a blogger, chances are you’ve heard of Darren Rowse, Brian Clark, [...]
Just in the nick of time…
…Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has some suggestions for getting back into blogging after a vacation… “Yesterday was my first day back at blogging after a 10 day vacation with my family and on Twitter I commented that I was finding it a little hard to get my brain back into blogging mode. @Mikeachim responded by [...]
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WordPress rulez!
There’s a blogging faceoff going on over at Mashable [you can participate here]. When I voted, these were the results… 33% of the top blogs in the world use WordPress and so do I!
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Home bases and outposts…
Darren Rowse of ProBlogger has been reading my mail. Or attending my seminars. Or both. Seriously, he does a great job in this video of explaining some of the tactics that I use to drive traffic to my blog…
IMNOTAWRITER
Image by kk+ via Flickr Whenever I present on the topic of ‘practical, tactical social media’ organizational leaders usually like what they hear about social media and how to implement it to build their brands online until they hear that in order to achieve maximum results, they’ll have to post a thought every day for [...]
“What the hell am I supposed to write about?”
Image via Wikipedia I’m a huge fan of blogging for small businesses — after all, it has worked so well for me! This question invariably comes up sooner or later… “What the hell am I supposed to write about, I own a {insert your small business here}? Really, who cares about your flower shop, bike [...]
Taking your expertise for granted
Image via Wikipedia This post from Darren Rowse has me thinking about myself and the people in my trusted network… “I recently was chatting with a new blogger and they made the comment that after 3 weeks of blogging that they’d run out of things to write about. They had written 10 posts so far [...]
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