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August 2010

Do your activities feed each other?

August 21, 2010

Here’s how the activities I engage in each day intertwine and work together to fuel current and future success. Reading fills my conscious and subconscious mind with the fuel that inspires my writing and also provides good content to share on Twitter. Writing solidifies my ideas into plans and “how-to” guides, that even I refer [...]

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Your Turn – Question For My Readers

August 20, 2010

This week I have shared four of the actions I take to get readers here and to keep them coming back once they find me. Here’s a recap of those activities: Why Images in Posts Work Consistency and Reliability Gain Readers Use as Many Channels as You Can Don’t Forget email I’ve been watching the [...]

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Don’t Forget email

August 19, 2010

A solid email list is pure gold. Promoting your blog via social media channels is great but locks you into the subculture. Everyone’s email list is different, mine has been built over fifteen years with several different and effective methods. Don’t get trapped by the social media subculture. I read Tom Snyder’s recent 10-4, Social [...]

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Use as Many Channels as You Can

August 18, 2010

I recently learned that all four of my siblings and my mother read this blog on a regular basis. This is especially strange to me not only because I am the youngest of the bunch but because of how they each find their way here. Small Sample….but. I was a little surprised that Mom and [...]

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Consistency and Reliability Gain Readers

August 17, 2010

Right after publishing daily, there is no single change I’ve made to increase readership more, than to publish at the same time every day. The consistency of being able to set your clock by Jim Raffel’s blog post at 4:30am central time every day leads to a reliability people like. Reader gains as measured by [...]

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Why Images In Posts Work

August 16, 2010

Recently, I was scrolling through Avinash Kaushik’s Win Big With Web Analytics: Eliminate Data & Eschew Fake Proxies when it hit me why images in posts work. First, I don’t pick which Avinash posts to read by title. He only writes a few posts each month so I skim each one for value (also his [...]

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Tell Your Story

August 15, 2010

This post started when I shared the following on Twitter: 4am, after laying awake reading “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years” If you are expecting a book review, this is not it. Perhaps when I finish the book I will do a video review of it. No, in this post I am going to [...]

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Owning Your Future Time

August 14, 2010

Planning your work and powering through it when you don’t feel like it will lead to owning your future time. How do I know this? Because today, I stuck to my plan all day and now at a few minutes after 5pm I’m doing what I want to do – writing this post. Proven productivity [...]

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Linkedin: Finding the Full Value of the Ecosystem

August 13, 2010

I know plenty of people (myself included) who struggle to find the value of Linkedin. My gut tells me there is plenty of value there and I have found several small pockets of success already. The goal now is develop a more complete understanding of the entire Linkedin ecosystem and how to maximize the benefit [...]

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Ideas + Discipline = Success

August 12, 2010

“How do you pick which idea to write about” and “how do you write every day” are the two most common blogging questions I am asked. They are great questions, because you need the ideas and the discipline to write regularly in order to achieve blogging success. First, the ideas. Now that I have developed [...]

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