What if your blog disappeared? Not because of some hiccup or snafu. But because your free blogging service decided you were doing something wrong and simply shut you down? That’s what happened with Tumblr users recently: The protections afforded by intellectual property law have immensely benefitted technology companies, but that doesn’t mean that they’re not…
Monthly Archives: April 2011
It’s not Fear of Failure or Fear of Success… It’s Something Else
If you can’t see the video below check it out on the blog. I’m in Chicago at the moment for SOBCon, the best business blogging conference in the world. And I’m really busy working on stuff but I wanted to quickly talk about this topic. So I recorded directly to YouTube from my laptop camera….
The Art of Consistency in Blogging & Marketing
Consistency is a bitch. If you’re anything like me, consistency in your blogging & marketing (and even in your work) can be next to impossible. We all fail at this at one time or another. I can be pretty terrible at it myself. But I know it’s important and I keep working on it. Consistency…
Your Best Work is Also Your Best Marketing Strategy, with Fairies
This is a guest post by Catherine Caine. You make shoes. Three kinds of shoes – running shoes, tennis shoes and climbing shoes. The running shoes are boring and moderately profitable – people always want them and you don’t mind selling them. The climbing shoes are honestly irritating – climbers are so very demanding and…
The Business of Selling Happiness (And Why I’m Not Buying)
This is a guest post by Jennifer Bones. There has been a quiet revolution brewing online. It’s not something we talk about often but it’s very real. It is a revolution of new ideas, newfound freedom, higher levels of expression and self-actualization. Blogs are no longer just content place holders. They are now vehicles for…
The “Slow Cooker” Method for Blogging & Information Product Development
Your subconscious is your most powerful ally. In some ways, it’s a black box: stuff goes in, some it disappears, some of it comes back out synthesized and transformed into epic ideas. Some of it comes back out looking like a cross between a lost sequel in the Hellraiser movies and Yo Gabba Gabba. Well,…
Link Journeys for April 23, 2011, the “Back to Basics” Edition
Let’s see what Uncle Mikey has in his grab bag of links from this past week of surfing the intarwebz: Links Interview: Remarkablogger Michael Martine – Increasing Your Bottom Line | Blogging Labs – This is an interview I did with Robb Sutton at Blogging Labs a while ago. Robb’s one of the few original…
The Four New Basics of Business Blogging
The difference between pros and amateurs is in how pros understand, practice and apply the fundamental basics. What basics need to be understood about business blogging? Let’s take a look. New Basic #1 – Building Your List is Top Priority Business blogging needs to support the goals of the business, right? Duh. But doing that…
Listen to Your Own Damn Advice
If you can’t see the video below in your email or reader, watch it on the blog. The Cobbler’s Children Have No Shoes That’s an old saying to describe how we’re so busy helping others that we often go without that which we should have in order to serve as good examples. Who would trust…
Business Blogging Success is Counter-Intuitive
Business blogging needs to support the goals of the business, right? Duh. But doing that is not as straightforward as it seems. Often what is the most successful is counter-intuitive. Conversion Conversion is when somebody does what you want them to on your website. So you have to know exactly what it is you want…
Watch This
If you can’t see the video below, watch it on the blog. Here are some things to ponder about this video: It’s breathtaking & beautiful It’s uplifting & inspiring It’s highly shareable — how could you not want to send this to your friends to inspire and uplift them? It’s a commercial Everything about this…
How to Whine and Bitch Online and Get Away With It (Complete with Incidental Grammar Tips)
I followed someone on Twitter a couple weeks ago based on a recommendation. This person is a fiction writer. Don’t even bother to ask me who, it doesn’t matter and I’m not saying. They didn’t last long in my tweet stream, because every tweet I saw was a complaint. Every single one. Somebody had not…
Link Journeys for April 16, 2011 – The “Not Really Book Reviews” Edition
Hope your week was awesome. A few days ago I said I hate doing book reviews. But I can do recommendations, hence the name of this week’s Link Journeys. I have a short list of books with Amazon affiliate links and I’m just gonna give one or two sentences about ‘em and that’s it. But…
How to Move from Blogger to WordPress
I realize that not all of you are using WordPress yet. Some of you are still on Blogger, and I’m sure you’ve been considering moving to WordPress. And if there’s one thing that’s holding you back, it’s that the whole process of moving is intimidating and full of the possibility to commit terrible mistakes. But…
How to Forge a Legend from the Perfectly Ordinary and Profit from Your Own Pain
Your personal story is more important to other people than you think. Your deepest pain can be the source of your greatest gift to the world. Whenever I ask people how they got started doing what they’re doing or why they want to begin something, I get two kinds of answers: I followed my skills…
What Narcissism Taught Me about Marketing
My girlfriend (whom I later married and recently divorced) and I were living in northwest Indiana and even though it was a bit of a drive, we’d sometimes go hang out in Ann Arbor, Michigan, just because it’s such a cool little spot: hip boutique shops and restaurants, college kids who were too cool for…
WARNING: Perfectionism will Kill You
If you can’t see the video of me with my “bed head” (note to self: look in a damn mirror first, next time, lol) below in your email or reader, watch WARNING: Perfectionism will Kill You on the blog. You are in Danger Over the past couple weeks discussions about perfectionism have cropped up. Paralyzed…
Link Journeys for April 9, 2011 – The 55 Degrees Edition
Heya webonauts, here comes not-too-lengthy list of linky lusciousness for you to look at. Why is it the 55 Degrees Edition? Because that’s FINALLY the temperature here in Vermont. Melt, you damn snow, MELT, I SAY! This week I ended up with a bunch o’ tips & tricks on everything from speeding up WordPress to making video…
The 7 Reasons Why I Deleted Your Comment
There are bloggers who say they never delete comments. I’m not one of them. If I didn’t delete some comments, my posts would appear to have a higher comment count, which in a superficial way carries a modicum of social proof. You might be surprised at the number of comments I delete and why. I…
How to Start a Blog and Hangin’ with the Big Girls
I got invited to be on the Cher Rue show, an online show for “big girls” who love the way they are and who are really dedicated to serving that market. And I’m just a total interview whore so of course I said yes. We had a lot of fun, as you’ll see if you…
Link Journeys for April 2, 2011 –
The “Bitchin’ Blogs” Edition
A bunch of the links this week are other blogs I’ve found to be worth reading and subscribing to, hence the headline. Up Your Impact Factor Delivers the goods in Jennifer’s unique voice and definitely doesn’t take itself too seriously. You can get a Clarity Session or have your cards read by a cat (if…
No Really, Maybe You Should Just Give Up?
This post began as an inkling of an April Fool’s joke. Except it wasn’t funny. At all. It may even be the most serious thing I’ve ever written. You may not even want to continue (you were warned). And I’m publishing it on April Fool’s Day. How’s that for being a shit-disturber? On with it……
The Ultimate “What Should I Blog About” Post
One of the most stressful problems faced by new bloggers is what the hell they should blog about. And that’s understandable, because if you don’t know the answer to that question, it means you haven’t thought things through quite enough in your business. In other words, it’s not a blogging problem, it’s a business problem….
