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The Obvious 3 Part Solution to Better Blog Content

December 5, 2010 By 5 Comments

Internet marketing is designed to promote your content, but creating content has little to do with internet marketing.

Great content relies on the combination of good writing, editing and publishing. And the better your content, the less marketing hype you’ll require to sell it.

Sounds pretty simple, but not too many bloggers or internet marketers have a basic understanding of this stuff. With that said, let’s go over these basics to get you familiarized:

Writing

You either love writing, hate it, or you’re somewhere in between. But it doesn’t really matter how you feel because as long as you’re a blogger you pretty much have to write content. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Editing, Publishing, Writing

A Few Great Tips on Getting an Unavailable Domain Name

October 21, 2010 By 2 Comments

Not a day goes by when I’m not thinking about a cool and quirky website that tons of people would love to have in their lives. Immediately after I picture that website, I think about the name.

Then I think: can I get that in .com?

Usually I can’t. Some cybersquatter or domainer has it locked up in cage somewhere with other cool domains, or it’s being used by someone who was faster and smarter and beat me to it.

But over time I’ve learned not to get too discouraged about this. For one thing it’s pretty darn fun and rewarding to come up with your own original domain name. And it that doesn’t work, there are few things you can do. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Publishing

How to Be a Successful Writer and Publisher: The Best of Wordful

October 5, 2010 By 1 Comment

A few days ago on October 1st, this blog turned 2 years old.

Looking back at my work here, I thought it would be nice to share with you some of the best ideas that have come to represent what Wordful is all about:

Being yourself

I constantly stress the importance of being a genuine person.

Being a poser may work in the short term, but trends don’t last forever. You have to discover the foundation of who you are before people can give you praise and money. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business and Marketing, Publishing, Writing Tagged With: , , , , ,

iPad Vook Review: Sages and Scientists

September 15, 2010 By 1 Comment

Cover of Sages and Scientists vookI was given an opportunity by Rachel Balik of Vook to review one of their latest titles, Sages and Scientists. I’ve written about Vook in the past and like what they’re doing in the publishing space. For the record — I have no formal ties with Vook and this review is completely voluntary.

About Sages and Scientists

Sages and Scientists by Deepak Chopra and the Chopra Foundation is a small collaboration of writings and mini video interviews with some of the world’s most brilliant scientific minds. The title was catchy enough to attract someone like me who really digs transcendentalism…but also happens to really suck at science.

Each chapter — there are 11 total (nice prime number, by the way) – contains a short but powerful treatise on the connection between science and metaphysical consciousness. Unlikely, I know, but that’s what makes the vook so intriguing. [Read more...]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous, Publishing

Want a Future in Publishing? Focus on Choosers

April 28, 2010 By 2 Comments

Right now the progressive talk among publishers centers around pricing, ebooks, gadgets, branding and community/social media (in somewhat loosely connected terms). All important stuff, but we need to focus even more on choosers.

Choosers are people who share and recommends things to others, and they’re at the center of the evolving social web.

They decide what’s what sticks and what flops, where to go, what to read and—let’s not forget—what to buy. If you’ve ever shared anything online, then you’re a chooser, too.

If publishers want to save publishing, they need to start [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business and Marketing, Publishing
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