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 … [Read more...]
Why Images In Posts Work
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 … [Read more...]
Tell Your Story
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 ask you to tell your … [Read more...]
Owning Your Future Time
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 first. Pick the tasks … [Read more...]
Linkedin: Finding the Full Value of the Ecosystem
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 … [Read more...]
Ideas + Discipline = Success
"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 … [Read more...]
Sharing Success – The ApplyMate.com Story
A while back I got an email from Tim Murphy of ApplyMate.com which contained the following excerpt: "...I recently launched ApplyMate.com - a free web-based tool that helps users track school and job applications. Most job hunters submit dozens and dozens of job applications, and most students … [Read more...]
Customer Service Automation Should Help All Involved
A self service customer portal should enable both the customer and the service provider to have a better customer service experience. Recently I've written about Time Warner Cable's customer (dis)service (in my opinion) and Sprint's exceptional customer service. Today I want to share my experience … [Read more...]
Blog Comments or Sharing via Twitter and Facebook?
Blog comments aren't dead any more than newspapers are dead. Until Twitter and Facebook became so big, blog comments were the only way to express your pleasure with a post. Now, sharing the post via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or other social media channels is a snap. Justin Levy weighs in. I … [Read more...]
Stream of Consciousness Writing
The comments on The Calm Before The Launches post have shown me that part of what I gain by writing this blog each day is organization. By capturing your stream of consciousness, at quiet unhurried times, you are able to capture the important thoughts running through your brain. In my case these … [Read more...]
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