The blogging A-list is short, and you want on. But where do you start? Believe it or not, the real starting point for professional blogging has more to do with character traits than it does with a “cool blog with great content.” After six months of blogging, I’ve extracted seven must-have survival skills from some […]
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On Saturday I instantly lost six Twitter followers with this four-word tweet. Don’t ask me why, but maybe it offended some people. No big deal. What is a big deal is when a few words can destroy a lifetime of hard-earned success. Even one word can do it. It can happen to people who spend decades working on […]
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Killer Web Content by Gerry McGovern, 2006. Amazon says: Killer Web Content provides the strategies and practical techniques you need to get the very best out of your web content. The book helps readers to: provide visitors to their website with the right content at the right time, write compelling web content that users respond […]
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I was recently perusing one of those free downloadable viral reports and discovered a very interesting line of copy. It was a simple yet profound statement that summed up everything about the web content niche I don’t believe in: Today we are going to show you how to appear like an inspirational, creative, buzz generating genius, with […]
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Sonia Simone at Copyblogger describes two types of people on the web: thought leaders and marketers. Thought leaders (she calls them the “Cool Kids”) constantly push the boundaries of conversation, attention and influence, while the Internet Marketers chase the cash through quick, aggressive, black hat tactics. Then she poses the question: which tribe is lame and […]
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