I’ve been mulling a post for a week. Wanted to write about the top 10 people who had the biggest impact on my life in 2006. Seemed like a good idea …. till I tried to write. Then it felt crappy. Like "how can I leave so and so out?" So, I didn’t write a…
Yet another way to raise your Blog’s Buzz Factor is to make use of Trackbacks. What are Trackbacks? Here’s the introduction to "What is a Trackback" from Typepad’s help documentation: "In a nutshell, TrackBack was designed to provide a method of notification between websites: it is a method of person A saying to person B,…
It’s been said that to be a great writer one needs to … read a lot … and write a lot. The same is true for Blogging … that special form of writing that ‘hangs it all out there’. And, to create traffic to your Blog. Don’t just read Blogs COMMENT on them. Make the…
Seth Godin makes a passionate argument for being marketable not electable. Seth suggests that to get a market or, more correctly, to get market share, we must be remarkable. And, to be remarkable we need to be among other things … well, us. That means some people — maybe a swack of them — are…
March 8th, 1985 I came within 5 minutes of dying. All because my job and my work environment had become increasingly toxic to me. Over the course of the prededing 3 years I had been hospitalized 3 times for clinical depression — and, suicide attempts. Over those same 3 years I had read countless books…
The common issue in my coaching work this week has been "writers block". Now, the interesting thing is that you don’t have to be making a living as a writer, or trying to make a living as a writer to suffer from Writers Block. You just have to be in that messy situation where you…
I wish I’d had Marti Olsen Laney’s "The Hidden Gifts of the Introverted Child" when my son was small. You see my son is(was) an Introvert. Poor lad grew up with 3, count ’em 3, Extraverts. At the time I thought he was just shy and quiet and thoughful. Then when I learned about the…
I just recieved an email from a 17-year old who stumbled upon this blog. RB asked me for advice on finding jobs for artists. Here’s what I said (and a bit more): "First of all, congratulations on knowing at 17 what you want to be! My advice is to take it one step at a…
There’s a bajillion Blogs in the Blogosphere! How do you attract folks to yours? In my last post I spoke about the obvious: ya gotta write! This post expands on that notion. To attract readers you need to write: With passion — Dull, insipid, stupid prose belongs anywhere BUT your Blog. It’s not like everything…
Several of my clients have asked me about strategies for promoting their Blog. So, I thought I’d pen a few thoughts… in my Blog! What else? Building Buzz for Your Blog – Strategy #1 This one seems obvious but … Blog! Ain’t nobody gonna read nothing, if there’s nothing to read….
