Now that I’m not spending all my hours playing WoW anymore (and not really missing it, either), my reading is back up to previous levels of voraciousness. Here’s what I’ve read over past couple weeks. Both of these books have short abbreviations consisting of numbers and letters, hence the cryptic headline for this post. All…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Link Journeys for January 29, 2011
Here’s what piqued my interest over the previous week: Offers that Convert Website Visitors into Qualified Leads – Great articles about different ways to increase conversions on your site and get more leads (I know many of you operate a business which services clients instead of or alongside selling products, so this will be very…
Open Discussion: 3 Wishes for Your Blog
If you suddenly found a magic lamp and out popped a genie who grants you 3 wishes about your blog or your skills as a blogger, what would you wish for? Tell us in the comments! Let’s have some fun.
What Good Content Really Is (Once and For All)
Telling people to create good content sounds great, but it’s an empty statement. It’s a delivery truck with no payload. It contains no nutritional value. What does it mean to create good content? Define good content. No, really, go ahead, I’ll wait. Tell me what good content really is. (Sound of crickets chirping…) Yeah, thought…
The Creative Entrepreneur Roadmap
As a Renaissance Person 2.0 (RP2), you care as much about creativity and uniqueness and choosing the right path as you do about meeting your financial goals. You also have a better mental toolkit than most other folks do to help you get there: you understand the web, you embrace the new world of entrepreneurialism,…
Link Journeys for January 22, 2011
Quite an oddball list this week, LOL! A few good ones for those designing their own blogs and some good marketing ones. Enjoy! What do customers expect from your social media practice? Remarkatweets Daily! (I created a paper.li newsletter. Check it out, subscribe for free and make your own!) Amazing collection of web page backgrounds…
How Google Analytics Improved
Our Business Over 75%
This is a guest post by Steve Chou. Picture this. You’ve worked nights and weekends for several months straight to get your business off the ground. Your house is a mess. Your sink is full of dirty dishes and you’re still wearing the same clothes that you’ve had on for the last 4 days. But…your…
Open Discussion: What’s the Toughest Aspect of Business Blogging for You?
Business blogging comes with many challenges. You have to accomplish all the goals of a non-business blog plus capture leads and make sales on top of that. I’ve found that most online entrepreneurs get stuck in these areas: Traffic Search rankings Subject matter Increasing reader engagement Capturing leads Getting sales Finding the time Any of…
The Renaissance Person 2.0 Guide to More Freedom, Money and Time
My post on Renaissance People 2.0 was well-received. More than I thought it would be, since it was mostly me just thinking out loud, but hey that’s cool… I’ll take it. If you read it and you don’t feel like you are a “RP2,” don’t fret. There’s a guide for creative types who need a…
What is Business Blogging?
Business blogging is different than any other kind of blogging. When you have an online business, you need traffic to your website and you need that traffic to convert into sales. A non-business blog, on the other hand, is a lot more like a magazine: it can make money for its owner via advertising and…
Link Journeys for January 15
Here are the best links I’ve collected for you over the past week. Hope you find them useful or entertaining: Blogging & Social Media 8 Ways to Use Social Media Share Buttons on Your Blog Make Your WordPress Blog Look Like a Million Bucks on an iPad (affiliate link) 9 Ways to Get More out…
Renaissance Person 2.0 – What it is, How to be One and Why
What does it take to succeed in online business? What would do the most to help your coaching, consulting or freelancing business thrive in troubled times? Is it some singular focus? Is there one single thing you can do to insure success? I don’t think so. You’re probably thinking, Wow, thanks for the optimism, Michael!…
Open Discussion: What Would Your Blog Report Card Be?
If you had a report card on your blog suddenly delivered to your inbox, what would it say? What grades would you get? A C+ in Headline Writing? An A- in posting consistency? A D+ in traffic? A C- in SEO? Of course, asking you a question like that is asking you to grade yourself, and…
What is Quora (and why should you care)?
Quora is taking the interwebz by storm. Question & answer type sites have come and gone, but Quora seems to have reached the tipping point. It’s getting a lot of attention and a lot of users. What is Quora? Quora is a place where you can ask and answer questions. How Quora differs from previous…
5 Secret Weapons for Online Business Success in 2011
A secret weapon is something only a few people are using, and they’re getting killer results. I’ve identified what I think are going to be the top “secret weapons” of 2011. These are tools few online business owners will be using, but those who do are, in my estimation, much more likely to experience greater…
The New Master Business Blog Program is Open
To say it’s been a while since I opened my group blog coaching program would be a masterful understatement. But people keep asking for it so really it is about time I listened and opened it back up. Every time I’ve opened the program up for registration it has sold out, so if you think…
Social Media is the New “Online”
After reading Why Your Social Media Strategy Sucks (EDIT: somehow forgot the link when I first published this, now fixed), I was reminded of an old IBM commercial from the 90s. If I remember correctly, it may have been a Superbowl ad (chances are, however, I’m not remembering correctly–mind like a steel trap: everything gets…
I Quit
This is not going to be easy. I have a tendency toward addiction. I seem to lack the ability to moderate. I have no “off” switch, in other words. Over the years I have become addicted to and then quit both cigarettes and alcohol, and I’m justifiably proud of that. But over the past year-and-a-half,…
Open Discussion: Do Your Customers Actually Have Any Money?
Because if they don’t… why on earth are you still trying to sell to them? Why are you spending countless hours creating free content on your blog to market to people who ain’t got no money? (Sorry for the terribad English but really there’s just no other way to say it as far as I’m…
7 Supertools Your Business Blog Needs to Succeed in 2011
A constant question I get is “what tools should I use?” We hate making bad decisions. We want to pick a winner the first time. Tools often require an investment of money and time and we freakin’ hate it when we put in the time & money only to disover the tool we thought would…
Link Journeys for January 1, 2011: The Best of Remarkablogger in 2010
Normally Link Journeys posts feature links to other websites, not my own. It’s a new year (the last one before the apocalypse, right?), and the internet is freakin’ choked with retrospective and best-of posts. And guess what? I’m doing it, too! But I’m not doing it as a mindless sheep, following the herd. Hell no….
