The last post I wrote about building your audience through social media before you even launch a blog stood conventional blogging wisdom on its ear, and got a great response. I’d to follow up on that with another idea that isn’t unconventional… just overlooked. Instead of slaving away trying to make YOUR little blog make…
Monthly Archives: February 2009
How to Get an Audience Drooling for a Blog That Doesn’t Exist
Starting a blog is one of the best feelings in the world, but at the same time, it can also be one of the lonliest of endeavors. You’re slaving away, trying to figure out this blogging thing and writing the best content you can, and nobody shows up. Launching a blog may as well be…
Read This if You Hate Marketing
Most people are simply terrible at marketing. It’s kind of insane, when you think about it. Marketing activities bring in customers, without which you have no business. This makes marketing the most important activity you can do. After all, customers do not just magically show up and throw money at you. Without marketing, you have…
5 Stealthy Ways to Promote your Blog
Image via Wikipedia This is a guest post by Nathan McGee. It is challenging in the blog world to garner attention. Sometimes I have felt like the guy at the party that is just jumping up and down shouting “Look at me everyone! Look at me!”. Here are 5 ways to promote yourself with out…
Create Sellable Content the Easy Way by Repurposing Blog Content
When you’re transitioning from “just” a blogger to an “entreproducer” (entrepreneur + producer) in order to really live the life of your dreams, you will have to produce your first information product at some point. This means you will have to: Get over the fear that nobody will buy your stuff Figure out something to…
How to Borrow Credibility and be an Expert Even if You’re a Nobody
Bloggers seem to operate in a very small mental box. They tend to forget there is the entire rest of the world, where certain problems have already been figured out, such as establishing credibility for yourself as an expert… even though you are virtually unknown. In this audio, I explain how to “borrow” credibility through…
Blawging Lawyers Opens its Doors
If you’re an attorney, the most complete law practice blog marketing resource on the web just opened its doors this morning. It’s called Blawging Lawyers, and it’s the product of my partnership with Grant Griffiths. I really have no idea how many of you are attorneys (say hi in the comments!) but even if you’re…
Blogging and Internet Marketing – A Powerful Combo
This is an audio I recorded yesterday, but only just now have had the chance to post! Grant and I are only days away from opening the doors to Blawging Lawyers and things are a little crazy. This is really the story of how Grant and I met on Twitter and began a fruitful partnership….
Are You Serious?
I got an email the other day from someone cancelling their subscription to my email newsletter. I had sent out an email to a video by internet marketer Frank Kern. It wasn’t an affiliate link, I sent it because I learned soemthing valuable from it and I wanted to share. But this person wasn’t happy…
How to Not Pay Attention on Twitter (and Make Embarrassing Blunders)
This is kind of embarrassing, because you’d think I would know better. But when you’re excited about something and you want to share your enthusiasm with others, it can blind you to obvious things you should pay attention to. So I’m going to tell you this little story about how I made a faux pas…
Two Worlds, New Worlds
Thousands of people are losing their jobs, and they don’t have the faintest idea how they’re going to get by. Thousands more are quietly, desperately going to work each day wondering if and when the axe will come down on their necks… and they’re not doing anything about it. There is this whole other world,…
Knowledge is Power, Convenience is Weakness
There’s been some interesting reactions to my previous post on Google/FeedBurner problems and my announcement that I’m “de-Google-fying” my life. I have the more extended story, what I’m doing, and what I’m going to do, on the audio below. If you’re reading this in your email or in a reader and you don’t see the…
Rethinking My Heavy Use of Google “Services”
A service where you have no real help and no recourse if something goes wrong is no service at all. Even if the service is free, that is no excuse that it performs poorly or fails. I’m a pretty heavy user of Google services, and if I suffered through what some have suffered at the…
Blawging Lawyers Launching Soon
   I didn’t think I would have so much fun working on a project just for attorneys, but I’m having a blast. As the economy and technology change, every field will be transformed, and the legal profession is no exception. If you’re a lawyer, listen up, because I’m talking about your livelihood. If…
