This is a guest post by Jamie Teasdale. I wanted to do it in 2017. I even wrote about my disillusionment with social media and the luster wearing off back then, but […]
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Choosing Your Strategy in a Media-Centric Business
I was talking to a mastermind buddy who was working through whether to pursue a sponsorship strategy. His concern was that he wasn’t sure whether it was a long-term play or a […]
Why I Was So Worked Up About Killing My Newsletter
I did a few unusual things this last Saturday. I killed my newsletter. I abandoned a marketing technique that I have been using for at least four years and that is the conventional […]
Why It's Critical to Understand Critical Mass
[If you’re reading this via RSS or email, you might have to click through to watch the video.] Today’s video blog is about why it’s critical to understand critical mass. Have you […]
Why It's Both Easier And Harder to Be in the Book Business
Yesterday, Seth Godin announced that the Domino Project had released its last hardcover. An understated point within the post was: “The ebook is a change agent like none the book business has […]
Flee or Grab: How Do You React to New Technology?
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Ali Luke. Think back twelve years: 1999, the end of the last century. What did your life look like then? I’m guessing it was […]
Building Your Campfire: Three Keys to Gaining Influence Online
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Ethan Waldman of Cloud Coach. Small business owners, especially new ones who are just getting into building an online presence, spend a long time […]
Vancouverites Remind Us of How We Can Use Social Media
When I woke up this morning and reviewed my schedule, I was happy to see a call with Danielle LaPorte for this afternoon. I’ve been meaning to talk to her forever and […]
On Blogs Being Dead
Blogs aren’t dead, but the way in which they sit in the web of content is different than it was a mere year ago. The new technological options are just that, and it’s our use of them that we need to be more aware of.
How to Use Social Media Sanely
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Tara Sophia Mohr from Wise Living. We””the bloggers, blog readers, twitterers, people who spend a lot of time on social media””are growing up. Our […]
Don’t Tweet Away Your Best Ideas
In a recent post, Jonathan Fields asked whether Twitter was the ultimate creation killer. It can be. One of the things I learned during the Oregon Trail Chronicles was that I was doing […]
The Celebrity Conundrum: How To Use Your Status Without Losing Yourself
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Marissa Bracke. You don’t get to decide whether you’re a guru*. First, we have to establish two things: one, you control your own reactions, […]
Trust Agents, Ideaviruses, and the Retweet Misstep
The developers at Twitter rolled out a new retweeting feature in the last few days, and I’m not a big fan. A few people on Twitter asked me why I don’t like […]