Personal Branding for Online Entrepreneurs
I hope this is a good post. Not just because I often fall into the trap of equating my success as a writer with the number of likes, shares or comments a post like this attracts. (That was a hint.) I hope this is a good post because I’m charging you six minutes to read…
This is my why. It’s a picture of what looks to be a severed chicken head that has been attached to a piece of metal through two rivets. One through the eye and the other through the mouth. It’s pretty gross. I get that. However, this picture is what drives me to wake up each…
Content is king. Or maybe it’s queen. I can’t remember. I just know that’s it’s really, really, really important. And while there might be a whole bunch of search engine or social media related reasons why it’s important enough to warrant three “really’s” there’s an even better reason to put it at the top of…
I believe it was Jim Rohn who said it first. “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” While I’m not suggesting that you kick your current friends and family to the curb, what I am suggesting is that if you want to be seen as an influencer, you…
Educate. That’s the answer. I figured I would just tell you right up front in case you didn’t have time to read the entire post. For the rest of you overachievers out there, keep reading because there’s some good stuff in here. You see, if you are in business, then you are in the business…
Most of us think of search engines as one big giant convoluted mess of secret algorithms created by people with glasses who ride around on Segways all day. How it actually works is a mystery to the vast majority of us. We assume it’s a big ugly technical problem. And a big ugly technical problem…
I was probably about six or seven years old the first time I remember thinking that I was going to do something extraordinary with my life. I was going to change the world. Looking back now that I’m older and “wiser” I can see how I may have mistaken that feeling for the same one…
There are a whole bunch of ways to quickly create your own authority. You could convince your old college roommate to write a testimonial for you. Create a case study on a company you never did any work for. Or purchase likes, tweets and shares from some kid who’s still living in Mom’s basement. You…
