Archive for May, 2010
Stop Monkeying Around: Play By Your Own Rules
This is a guest post by Mars Dorian.
You read it everywhere – be original and make your blog stand out. Easy to say, hard to implement. Stand out – how do you do that ? Hey you, blogger, be unique, right NOW!
Not very practical. Being unique to me means you customize your entire online presence. It’s the way you treat you posts and promotion. There’s not one correct way of spreading your digital brand – anything goes. If you feel a little lost right now, I’m glad. Because after this post, you will be sooo much smarter.
iPad – A Blogger’s Field Test
I’ve been messing around with the iPad for a little over a week now. I thought I would offer a few thoughts, as well as answer this question…
Can you blog from this thing?
First, let me talk briefly about the Ipad as a media consumption device, then I’ll talk about blogging from it. Hint: I’m writing this post from my MacBook, if that tells you anything. 
The Question You MUST Answer To Be Successful As A Blogger
Why do you blog? What’s your offer? Why should I pay ANY attention to you whatsoever?
Do you have an answer for this?
There are a number of differences between hobby blogging and professional blogging. In my view, many of the bloggers trying to make money in this medium are running things like a hobby blogger and expecting money to pop out of it. And that’s not going to happen.
A Story Of One Of My Failures
I want to tell you a story.
Back before I had any form of public reputation as a blogger, I made some money by doing programming work. In fact, even as I was running PCMech, I was doing client web development on the side to earn more money. PHP/MySQL development was my thing.
As things evolved with PCMech, I saw the need for some kind of content management system. See, I began PCMech in the days where we were manually creating HTML files and linking them together. I’d use Microsoft Frontpage to manage things as a site and hopefully keep everything working. I eventually evolved to using server side includes to make certain things common and make site changes not such a pain in the butt. But, I needed a real CMS.
So, I began making one myself. I put all kinds of work into the thing and was using it to power my own site. Then, it dawned on me that I could probably make some money with it. So, I called it Miraserver and began to sell licenses.
Inner Circle Workshop: Reboot Your Blogger Brain
Before success in anything manifests in the real world, you’ve got to get a grip on what’s going on inside.
In this webinar workshop, David will discuss some exercises to help reboot your blogger brain. We’re going to ditch the clutter, get freed from overwhelm, and look forward with a new focus. In fact, we’re going into the realm of personal development a little bit here. 
Click here for details on Wednesday night’s Inner Circle workshop.
Do You Listen To Any Blogging Podcasts?
I have been dabbling with an idea. Not sure yet if I’m going to proceed with it, but the idea is this…
Do a podcast about blogging for a living.
Here are the reasons why I might not proceed with doing this:
Super-Easy Tactic For Increasing Reader Anticipation
One of the things we all want is for our readers to come back to your blog. This is why we like getting visitors onto our lists, follow us on Twitter, or subscribe by RSS.
However, there is another super-easy tactic you can use to increase anticipation: Showing them what’s coming before it is published.
With that in mind, here is some code you can copy/paste into your blog theme in order to easily list out scheduled posts.
The Big 5 Huge Sucking Sounds For Your Time
Yesterday was an interesting day for me. Interesting in that I was in my office almost the entire day and got very little work done. Interesting because it pissed me off, yet I was in such a mental fog that the best thing for me to do was just to get up and leave.
We’ve all had days like this. You start the day, full of piss and vinegar and ready to tackle your business, only to get mired down by your own disorganization. At the end of the day, you wonder what happened.
Well, I’ve thought about it. And I’ve identified the big 5. These 5 things are the huge sucking sounds for our time. Unfortunately, too, bloggers are particularly prone to these big 5.
Why Banner Advertising For Blogs Sucks [A Story]
So, I get an email from a guy. I’ll leave his company out of it.
In short, he wants to place a text link on PCMech.com for a monthly fee. He isn’t interested in banner advertising. Just the text link.
So, I reply and essentially tell him that I’m not willing to do a site-wide text link for the purposes of SEO. Now, his site is related to mine, so that wouldn’t have been a problem. It was more a point about visual clutter. I don’t wish to litter up my blog with random links just because I get paid for it.
Bloggers, Are You Building Your Assets?
One of the things I constantly preach is the importance of treating your blogging like a business. That is, if you actually want to make a business-level income from it.
That means thinking strategically about what you’re doing and how you’re developing.
In everything that you do, you should be thinking about how it is increasing your leverage and increasing your assets. Increasing your assets results in increased leverage.
So, what do I mean by assets?
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