Consulting can bring rivers of revenue to a blog. At first glance, this strikes some bloggers as strange. I mean, bloggers blog, right? And blogging means writing. Yes… and no. Yes, the majority of a blogger’s time is spent writing. But the writing needs to come from a place of authority; a place of [...]
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Category Archives: Core Belief Articles
The Da Vinci Code’s Safe Haven Clause Applied To Consulting
A few years ago I heard a story about a blogger who yearned for greater notoriety and thousands of RSS readers. He toiled day and night and after about a year or so, his RSS readers numbered in the thousands. He was sought after by big name blogs for interviews and his days were spent [...]
Evangelists: Why They’re the Driving Force Behind Your Blog’s Success
God love ‘em, they’re crazy about you and your blog! They’d walk up to a perfect stranger and tell them to walk, no…RUN..RIGHT NOW…to a WiFi spot and surf over to your blog. They comment on every post. They can’t wait for your next product or service to be released and often are the first [...]
Your Blog’s Bible – 3 Reasons for Having One
For Christians, it’s the Bible. For Jews, it’s their Torah. For Muslims, the Koran; Taoists, the Tao Te Ching. It’s their source of comfort, their tangible talisman linking them to the greater good. It their ultimate resource All popular religions have one. It serves as the ultimate resource for their followers. A place to turn [...]
Why Blog-Religions Shatter the Traffic Myth
A common myth about blogging is that you need massive amounts of traffic and RSS readers to realize any significant return on investment. More visitors, more money, right? If you have a thousand hits per day to your blog, you’re bound to benefit. That’s the conventional wisdom and it’s true in most cases. But what [...]
How the ‘Religion’ Model Works for a Blog
In the last post, I wrote about -not only the the central message of this blog- how you should think of your blog like a religion. Click here to read the original post. Today I want to show you some of the basic architecture for taking that idea a bit further. Below is a simple [...]
Why Your Blog Should Be a Religion
Incense permeated the air and I inhaled deeply. At first the aroma was enticing, then it became a bit thicker. I focused on my breathing and took another deep breath. Ommmm…….cough..wait a sec. Was I having trouble breathing? cough..sputter..wheeze..crackle..clear throat…choke. OK, so much for creating a monastic visual of calm devotion and clarity of thought. [...]
10 Tips to Get Your New Blog Noticed
(This is a special guest post by Yaro Stark of BlogMastermind.com. Yaro is my blogging mentor and his advice is not only straightforward and easy to understand, it’s absolutely trustworthy. Enjoy this special post!) In every bloggers life comes a special day – the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went [...]