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October 29, 2015
Social Media Has Made Us Soft (Or Why We Need to Grow Some Balls)
While social media is a fantastic medium for working smarter for businesses, it’s also softened us a little as people.
There’s almost a kumbaya feeling of not being able to speak your mind, because when you question a “name” out in social media, or disagree with them, you’re labeled a hater.
Never mind the fact you have a valid opinion – you must be a hater because your opinion isn’t the same as The Chosen One(s).
This leads to blog posts being praised to the rooftops, despite being rehashed...
October 27, 2015
The Pale Blue Dot (Or Encouraging Greatness in Others)
Have you ever looked around you – really looked around you – and saw your place in the world?
It could be your place in your own particular world, or your place in the bigger picture.
It doesn’t really matter – all that matters is you take that look around you and recognize your place in it.
We live in a society that changes quickly and moves even quicker. It’s easy to get lost, swept away or side-tracked. Things we meant to do yesterday we don’t have a cha...
October 26, 2015
Social Media Won’t Kill Blog Comments – Bloggers Will
Last week on my blog, I published a post about the difference between writing and blogging.
Because I’d shared my thoughts on what that means earlier this year, I decided to open up the question to the readers and subscribers of the blog.
The result was that the post itself was a mere 60 words (seemingly breaking almost every “blogging rule” out there when it comes to content length).
60 words.
You’d think such a short post would receive crickets, or lack of interactio...
October 23, 2015
Haters Gonna Hate? Try Being Equal to Dog Crap
Opinions are great. They allow people to share their thoughts on something, and contribute to a conversation that otherwise may have passed them by.
Opposing opinions are even better, as they stop us from becoming too ego-centric and full of our own bunkum. Opposing opinions can make us re-evaluate our viewpoints with fact and make us better people for learning new ideas.
Of course, the problem with having opposing opinions to something is that, often, the people you’re questioning don’t like...
October 20, 2015
Writing vs Blogging – Is There a Difference?
Many people view blogging and writing as both the same thing. After all, isn’t blogging just an extension to writing, and/or vice versa?
Instead of offering my view on this, I thought it’d be fun and interesting to open up and let you be the authors of this post.
So, writing versus blogging – is there a difference?
Over to you.
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October 19, 2015
If We Lose the Right to Opinion, We Lose More Than Just Page Views
Back in 2009, I published a post about online watch sales company Melrose Jeweler’s.
The post dissected a press release Melrose had put out, suggesting how the actor Owen Wilson had been saved from suicide by seeing his wonderful Rolex watch, and realizing life was worth living.
Ridiculous, right? Not to Melrose, who positioned themselves as resellers of authentic Rolex watches, and used the news release to show just how awesome Rolex is, and why people should buy from their online store.
(No...
October 15, 2015
More Blog Subscribers and Comments? Better Use Postmatic!
Ask any blogger what their two main wishes are for their blogs, and eight times out of ten* you’ll probably get “more comments” and “more subscribers” as the answer.
*Note – eight times out of ten is not a scientific discovery, although it may be. So….
Especially for bloggers who thrive on engagement, more comments means more goals met. More comments also have a way of increasing subscribers, because if a reader leaves a comment, it means they’ve enjoyed the piece. If they’ve enjoyed the piec...
October 7, 2015
The Little Book of Inspiration Virtual Tour – Day 1
Tomorrow, Thursday October 8, sees my first non-business book, The Little Book of Inspiration, published by Morning Rain Publishing.
A collection of personal thoughts, philosophies, life lessons and more, my hope is that it will offer an escape from the times when life seems to be full of nothing but bad news stories.
Sharing real life examples of inspiration as well as hopes and dreams, The Little Book of Inspiration has been likened to Chicken Soup for the Soul, and I hope that proves to be...
October 5, 2015
Sometimes We Need to Say Screw You to Content Rules
Remember the good old days of blogging? Come up with something to say, write it down, hit Publish, and onto the next piece whenever that came to mind.
Now we have to worry about content authority, author rank, Hummingbird, content overkill, content optimization, etc, etc.
It seems we spend so much time worrying on the presentation, we lose track of the real reason we blog.
Love.
Love for the content; love for the experience; love for the audience; love for thereason to publish.
Sometimes we n...
October 2, 2015
The Little Book of Inspiration Pre-Order and Blog Tour
So next week, Thursday October 8th, is kind of a special/exciting/cool/worrying (delete where applicable) day, as my first non-business book is released.
A collection of thoughts, anecdotes, life experiences and philosophies, The Little Book of Inspiration is a distinct change from the books I’ve released so far.
This book is more in line with the direction I’ve been moving for the last 6-12 months or so, and its tagline sums up the content within:
Inspiration is all around us. A...
