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10 Brilliant Uses for Your Blog Other Than Making Money

November 25, 2009 By 10 Comments
cool birthday cake with 10 candlesSick of hopelessly blogging for dollars? Instead of taking the easy way and giving up, consider using your blog to:
  1. Make you famous, or at least position you as a bona fide expert in your field. Ideas can carry much more currency than dollars, especially when people trust you.
  2. Expand your brand. Sounds cliché, but it’s true. Look at Shoemoney: he blogs everyday without a hint of sales pitch. Yet, his brand is strong. In fact, if it wasn’t for his blog, Shoemoney wouldn’t have a brand at all. Money in the bank—yes—but no brand. Huge difference.
  3. Exercise your 1st amendment rights. Free speech is ever so precious. So why not trade in some of your inner capitalist for some outer expressionist? Stop worrying about the market and start speaking your mind to the world. It feels grrrrrreat, by the way. [Read more...]
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How to Stop Hating Mondays

November 23, 2009 By 3 Comments
photo of bored office worker in a cublie; presumably it's MondayIt’s Monday morning. You’ve coasted through another beautiful, short-lived weekend. Now you’re back at the office—slow, cranky and out of focus. Sound familiar? Don’t let it be this way. Mondays are not the enemy. They’re just as precious as Tuesday through Sunday, but need some special attention.

Anatomy of a Weekend

Weekends are by tradition everything your working life is not: adventure, leisure, home improvement and time with the family. They are meant to give you a well-deserved break from your career so you’re “recharged” and ready to go come Monday. Hardly the case, right? What usually happens is you get so enraptured in the free time fun that you lose your mojo, so by the time Monday rolls around, you have to spend the rest of the work week trying to get it back. A classic case of [Read more...]
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Have You Mastered the Art of Ignoring?

November 20, 2009 By 1 Comment

ignoringFocus, create, listen, read, educate, write, share and engage. What about ignore?

Ignoring is as important as engaging, and far more challenging. It requires us to turn off our attention or retune it to something far more remarkable. Because of information overload—blogs and articles and updates and time-wasting on beautiful sites like this one—ignoring becomes a tough art to master. [Read more...]
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Let’s Keep Talking: How You Can Connect with Wordful

November 13, 2009 By Leave a Comment
0161If you read Wordful, then first of all: thanks. I appreciate you. If you happen to also enjoy the content, then please consider checking out our social media communities. These are admittedly humble but emerging hotspots where I look forward to more interactivity and conversations with you on blogging, content media, publishing 2.0 and life. Give it a try! Here’s where you can find me: Like what you see? Pass it on to your friends!
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How to Assume the Mood of a Blogger

November 12, 2009 By 1 Comment
Chris_BroganChris Brogan blogs about the power of human relationships in a world of virtual interface. His advice and stories are interesting. They are poignant and useful to our work and life. The other day, Chris talked about three factors required for blogging every day: discipline, practice and ideas. How utterly direct and simple. I like that. Blogging every day without those three assets working together is tough. Even more challenging are the days you’re just not in the mood to blog. These are days when discipline, practice and ideas are nothing more than abstractions floating through your psyche. And all the advice and courses and classes you took on blogging suddenly don’t matter. So what do you do? [Read more...]
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