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NOTE: This post was originally written as a guest post for Jim Kukral, whose book Attention: This Book Will Make You Money features a prominent excerpt from my blog post “Stop Trying to Monetize What Isn’t Interesting.” You have a product or a service to sell. Maybe it’s a widget. Maybe it’s a cause. Maybe [...]
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Last week, Ian M. Rountree and I started Read It All Week, a challenge to read everything we were subscribed to — especially all the blogs we so easily subscribe to, but never actually absorb. We did this for two reasons: To reconsider why we subscribe to certain kinds of media, and To learn how [...]
On Sunday nights, Mack Collier runs a Twitter-based group chat called #blogchat, which I highly recommend to anyone who wants to learn more about blogging while hobnobbing with their peers. But, based on the defensive reaction to some of my comments from several of the #blogchat participants, I’ve realized that #blogchat is strictly a place [...]
In January, I started bookmarking articles and videos I thought were exceptionally insightful, entertaining or relevant. Reviewing them all at the end of the year would be too daunting, so here are some of the highlights I stumbled across in the first 3 months of 2010.* (NOTE: I expected to summarize January through June here, [...]
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Ego, Cynicism and Bad Reviews: What I Learned by Peeking at My Bounce Rates
Last week, I shared what I learned by blogging weekly instead of daily. Judging by the high volume of traffic, retweets and comments that post generated, people are very interested in what makes someone else’s blog tick. One comment that caught my eye was from Virginia Nussey, who said: I shared your findings with my [...]
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