I started this year with The 2011 Plan and today it's time to see how that turned out. The plan consisted of three key words: customers, content and strategy. I arranged those three words visually on a page in my notebook. While I didn't look back at the plan often, I did look back about once a … [Read more...]
What to write so people read your blog
This post easily could have been entitled "The top 5 posts of 2011." The problem is that some posts were skipped over depending upon your trust of WordPress Stats or Google Analytics for accurate rankings. Instead, I looked at the types of topics that were most viewed (read) out of the 254 posts … [Read more...]
10 tips to find more time to write
I'm often asked how I find the time to write four or five blog posts each week. Here's how: 1. Turn off the TV. I do watch TV, but when I do it's typically live sports or shows we've recorded on the DVR and watch as a family (skipping over the commercials to compress time). What I don't do is have … [Read more...]
Why I write and publish
I write to make ideas tangible. I write to test the validity of ideas. I write because it's the doing part of thinking. and here's the big one... I write to fill the time I used to fill with behaviors and habits that could have destroyed my life. Sometime between June and July 2009 I pulled my … [Read more...]