HubShout Review
Here is a review of a recent experience with a company called HubShout. They mistakenly over charged my credit card $240. Several weeks ago on December 27th I called my rep and notified her. She said she had another client with the same issue and would look into...
Why people reject the idea of failure
There are plenty of reasons why people reject the idea of failure, two of them are. 1. Their view point of failure is rooted in the industrial age. Then success was about getting BIG, and selling lots of stuff, in order to achieve economies of scale. Building a big...
Self Doubt
There's a little, tiny voice that speaks to you. It tells you things like... You can't do.... You're not good enough! You're too.... You might fail! They're going to laugh at you! etc, etc, etc. Acknowledge it so that you can ignore it!
Content Marketing Strategy Tip 5 – Listen To Social Media Conversations
One of the biggest benefits of social media is that it gives you a real-time feed of what your prospective customers are discussing. Listen carefully and you'll discover plenty of ideas for good content. An added benefit of gathering ideas this way is that content...
Super Genius
The phrase genius is thrown around today like a baseball. A genius is a person whom before them there was nothing like them, and after them everything bears their mark. It has noting to do with winning nobel prizes, scholastic achievement, nor new and improved ways...
What You Think Matters
The Man Who Thinks He Can by Napoleon Hill If you think you are beaten, you are. If you think you dare not, you don't. If you'd like to win, but think you can't, it's almost a cinch you won't. If you think you'll lose, you've lost. For out in the world we find success...
Google Apple or Microsoft – Who’s More Interesting?
Want to write about the three major players in tech Google, Apple, and Microsoft but not sure which company Internet surfers itching most to learn more about? Below is a Google Trends report I ran showing that the level of interest in Google, at least online search...
Free iStock Photos To Keep Your Blog In Style
Somewhere in my web travels I came across this. Through a partnership with HP iStock Photo is offering 30 free high resolution images for free that you can use on your blog...or anywhere else for that matter. Photo's May Appear To Be Free You've likely seen photo's...
Facebook Marketing – The Secret To Driving Engagement
Everyone agrees that the importance of an active, and engaged Facebook tribe is a key. But how to build one has left most marketers bewildered. Brands have difficulty getting fans to participate so they take the easy rode offering incentives to people to become fans...
Encouragement and Criticism
It's a good idea to surround yourself with two types of wise counselors. People who encourage you, and those who accurately criticize you. It's also a good idea to ignore both from time to time.
Content Marketing Strategy – Write Annual and “Best-Of” List
Today's post is tip number 5 in the content marketing strategy series. Consider writing round-ups, reviews, look-backs, and looking forward list at the very end or beginning of each year, and during slow points in the summer. Here are a few ideas: Compile a list of...
Starting vs Finishing
Starting something is easy. Finishing something is hard.
What Anxiety and Confidence Have In Common
What anxiety and confidence have in common are....stories. The stories we visualize, the stories we tell ourselves, and the stories we choose to believe about ourselves. Anxiety Anxious people visualize the most unfavorable outcome of a given situation. They tell...
Ways to persuade – The everyone does this method
Humans are wired to not want to be different. Most of us work hard to fit in. Turns out that playing the 'this is what everyone is doing' card can be one of the most powerful ways to persuade customers, colleagues and businesses to do the things you'd like them to...
Facebook and Twitter Were The Most Important Keys To Ranking High On Google In The US For 2012
The biggest question all website owners are always trying to answer is how to rank higher in the organic search results on Google. And correspondingly the best kept secret in SEO is Google's search algorithm which determines where websites appear on a search engine...
How To Blog: 80 Great Blogging Tips For Driving Tons of Traffic To Your Site
Last week I got an email from a friend who's interested in becoming a blogger. He wanted to know how to blog and any blogging tips and tricks that I could offer a beginner or small business owner. Here are 80 things that I advise anyone who has already or is thinking...
Content Marketing Strategy – How To Use Evergreen Content To Generate A Continuous Flow Of Traffic
Welcome to the fourth installment of my Content Marketing Strategy Series. Today I want to introduce you to the secret to driving traffic to your blog year after year, season after season. This is sure to become become an extremely important component of your...
2012 What I read this year
Here's a list of what I read this year. We Are All Weird by Seth Godin Free Prize Inside by Seth Godin Survival Is Not Enough by Seth Godin Poke The Box by Seth Godin All Marketers Are Story Tellers by Seth Godin How To Connect In Business by Nicholas Boothman Success...
How To Be Successful – 7 Things Anyone Can Do To Be Successful
How To Be Successful 7 Critical Success Factors 1. Be Consistent: This may be the most important factor of success. The willingness to consistently show up, ship your art, try again when you fail, write when no one reads, paint when no one appreciates, etc. Example:...
Health vs Fitness: How health and fitness are different
Health is at best a slippery term. Most often defined by a lack or absence of unwanted conditions. Having high blood pressure, cancer, a wide waist, too much blood sugar, a cold, flu, or other actual illness is considered un-healthy. We think of the absence of...