This is a guest post by Stephen P. Smith. Stuck in a rut? Tired of the same-old same-old day in and day out? Let’s make a few small changes in the way you work for a big impact on your results and personal satisfaction in a job well done. Injecting some “capital-C” Creativity into the…
Monthly Archives: September 2011
Are Referrals More Important to Your Online Business than Strangers? Then Why are You Blogging for Strangers?
Where do your clients really come from? And what is your blog doing for them? One huge problem I see time and again is people blogging for and interacting with their peers instead of their prospects. But even for those who are smart enough to not make that mistake, they may be making another one:…
Create an About Page for Your Blog that’s a Secret Freelance Sales Weapon
When you do the same thing everyone else is doing, you can hardly expect to get better results than everyone else, can you? What’s the “autopilot” way of creating an About page? It’s biographical and you talk about yourself, maybe include a picture and… That’s it. Pretty lame, and it does nothing to get you leads….
The Crucial Difference Between Blog Post Headlines and Email Subject Lines
First of all, apologies for the empty post that got published earlier. Hit the wrong button. Do you know what the difference is between blog post headlines and email subject lines? Email Subject Lines for Newsletters Well, it depends on how you do your email marketing. If you have a more conventional “newsletter” what seems…
I’m Presenting at the International Freelancers Day Online Conference (registration is free)
On the 23rd (just a couple days) is the International Freelancers Day Online Conference. It costs nothing to register and attend the presentations. If you do any kind of freelance work, this is going to be well worth your time. There is a lot of crap on the net that purports to help freelancers earn…
Is Your Blog Niche Stifling Your Creativity? Try Blog Projects
This is a guest post by Neil Matthews I’m running an experiment at the minute on my personal blog, where, instead of having a traditional blogging niche, I am working on a series of blogging projects. How Do I Define A Project A project is a series of focused blog posts on a particular topic…
The Life Cycle of a Business Blog Post – Know it and Maximize Your Marketing
On a business blog, where you’re marketing your business and not “just” writing a blog, you do not write a post out of the blue, hit the publish button and call it good. Unless of course you like wasting your time and getting lackluster results for your efforts. If you want to see real influence and…
How To Create a Blog That Punches People in the Face
This is a guest post by John Hoff. Sucky blogs tell. Good blogs teach. Great blogs have impact. Blogs that make an impact on readers and the blogosphere shine the best when they do one or both of the following: Solve something Share something But just because you do those things doesn’t mean your blog…
Personal Branding vs. Company Branding – Which One is the Winner?
The big news story driving this post is the possibility of Michael Arrington leaving TechCrunch. Arrington began TechCrunch as “just a blog” and grew it into the tech juggernaut it is today. The TechCrunch story is a powerful demonstration of what happens when you exercise complete editorial freedom and have great writers. There are now…
