The Simplest Thing You Can Do to Get Your Blog to be a Success
Do you want your blog to be successful? Sure you do. The problem is when you first start your blog, it can be awkward. We struggle with getting our words out there, but we can also be afraid that people won’t like what we have to say, or even how we say it. Often we settle for a watered down, politically correct, beige version of what is really in our head. Want your blog to succeed? Don’t dilute your thoughts. Want throngs of adoring fans hanging on your every word? Be who you are. Simply, unabashedly, shamelessly, authentically, 100% you. Why will this work? People connect...
read moreThe Art of Productivity
In this day and age we are busier than ever. The problem is that we, though busier, are less productive, less focused. We do a lot of things designed to make us more focused and more productive. We make lists designed to balance the many “important” projects that we have on our plate, only to find, ultimately, our plate is too small to hold what we have decided to take on. Before you know it you are burnt out, stressed, unhappy and can barely remember the last time you spent solid, quality time with your family. What would happen if we chucked it all out the door? What would...
read moreQuestions For Anocial
Information is much more valuable when it fills a specific need. The reason for the huge success of search engines is that it enables people to fulfill that need for specific information. I have a couple of months in now worth of writing posts for Anocial, but I’ve never directly addressed any questions or issues you may have. So let’s do some Q & A. If you have any questions about the topics I have covered or about social media in general, leave a comment or email me. I’d like to see more generalized questions since I’m trying to make the answers relevant to...
read moreCan Social Media Find You a Job?
Well can it? In a word, yes. It’s really not that simple though. Possible yes, but how, is the question. We know from many personal stories that is has been done, so we can look at these examples and find how it is possible to engineer your own digital presence and how people can accomplish their own success through social mediums. It’s all about risks, and being willing to take those risks. Some have landed jobs just because they IM’d the right person at the right time. Some have taken their blogs to new, more profitable, heights. The point here is you’ve got to be...
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