Posted by Mark Ayers on Jan 3, 2009 in
Blog,
Learning how to blog A few minutes ago as I was reading a post by Rob McNealy on Twitter Policy and Philosophy and I was making a comment about my usage of social media for my marketing I had to admit just how uncomfortable it all is for me.
When I was a teen we moved as a family between the east coast and the west coast, I went to a different school after each move. Somewhere along the line I decided that not getting to know anyone was the best course for me. I would be a loner and have held on to that my whole life. I have a small group of friends and a smaller number of very close friends. It has worked to a point in my life yet…
I always have had this passion for being a contribution, to being someone who had a positive impact, who raised the quality of life of the lives of people I interacted with.
My plans, dreams, thoughts have been around this theme in my life. Books I want to write, programs to put in place, people who need to be connected together. All of it has been because I want to help.
And then I come up against “I am a loner” remember.
One thing blogging gives me is a way to say what I want to say, market it and hope it lands where it can be of value. That what I say in some way causes someones life/business to move in a forward direction.
And I have had this dream of being a successful on line marketer who makes his living from actions taken on the net. I have failed miserably at that over and over. I have put in the activity and missed on the productivity. Yet I still have this dream and now..
Blogging is here for me finally. Blogging gives me a voice in the world, it gives me a way to say what I want to say in an effort to reach the people who are looking for what my words mean in their life to them. So they can determine the value and choose.
Yet because of the “Loner” name tag I wear it is uncomfortable for me to blog, to utilize social media to get business. I am torn between this and by my personal need and desire to be of service to others. To be in their lives and make a difference. To provide access to transformation. And my rule I set down for myself years ago.
Coming up for air now and even in writing this I am driven to write in the best way I know how to add value to your life, to let my passion win over my way of life as a loner. To be uncomfortable and just do it.
@Mark_Ayers
Tags: Blog, desire, passion, productivity
Coach Mark
Google alerts can keep you in a constant and up to date stream of content ideas and it is so simple to set up.
Google Alerts are email updates of the most current relevant Google search results (web, news, blog, video, etc.) and these are based on your choice of keywords or search terms. Take a quick 20 seconds or less to do this and you will then be sent a confirmation email to your own email account, no need for a Gmail account. If you already have a gmail account it is an easy access when you are logged in to Gmail.
Go to: Google Alert Home
Once there you will see a welcome screen with some information explaining what Google Alerts are about then a form to fill in.
To create a Google Alert fill in the form
- Add search terms: the desired keywords or term
- Type: News, Web, Comprehensive, Blog and Video
- How often: Daily, hourly, as it happens
- Your email addy:
You will be sent a confirmation email and you are set. You can then add or remove alerts as you want from your dashboard after logging in.
Here are some of the FAQ”s for your review
1. What are Google Alerts : Quick and easy emails that have the content you are looking for from Google search
2. What are the different types I can sign up for? You can source from one or all- Web, Blog, Video, News, and Comprehensive
3. How do I sign up? Go to Google Alerts Home
4. How often will I receive Alerts? You can choose from “as it happens to once a day”
5. What keywords or topics make good Google Alerts? What are your interests. What do you want to blog about, what do you want to research and learn?
For more information go to Google Alert help
Tags: Blog, blogger, Blogging, content generation, dashboard, Effective Blogging, email updates, gmail account, google, google search results, Learning how to blog, search terms, top search engines, video news, web blog, web news
Coach Mark
People make New Years Resolutions and look for ways to ensure their success, ways to do it easier, find support, and even find a community that they can be involved with in the pursuit of their goals.
As a blogger you can capitalize on this need in your niche if you will use some of these keywords and phrases below.
Here is a list of New Year’s resolutions keywords that may just be a big search engine stampede that you can use in your blogs. There are over 120 in this list but you may find more or you can adapt these as you like.
These can be triggers for your own thinking and planning use or insert these in your blog as they are. And some of these can just be looked at as goals verse resolutions, not to worry you will still be touching hot buttons of your readers if you use them.
You might want to start your blog title with one of the following:
· How to achieve…
· How to guarantee that you can…
· How to make it easier while you…
· How to simplify…
· How to…
· What will help you….
· When you do this you will…
· Where to…
· Why you will want to….
· Why you will…
· You can …
· You can too…
And then add one or more of the following
1. Be a better communicator
2. Be a better investor
3. Be a better speaker
4. Be happier
5. Be healthy
6. Be mature
7. Be more involved with children’s education
8. Be more involved with my investments
9. Be more positive
10. Be more self confident
11. Be more tolerant
12. Better discipline for children
13. Better sex
14. Brush my teeth better
15. Buy a house
16. Clean my house
17. Committed
18. Create more abundance
19. Drink fewer sodas
20. Drink less
21. Drink less coffee
22. Drink more water
23. Eat better
24. Eat less
25. Eat less candy
26. Eat less fast food
27. Eat less ice-cream
28. End a relationship
29. Enlist friends or family for accountability
30. Exercise
31. Fitness priorities
32. Floss daily
33. Get a cat
34. Get a degree
35. Get a dog
36. Get a fish
37. Get a horse
38. Get a new job
39. Get a Pet
40. Get a promotion
41. Get a raise
42. Get along with others better
43. Get an education
44. Get better grades
45. Get more rest
46. Get motivated
47. Get my your work done
48. Get organized
49. Get out of debt
50. Getting over a fear or phobia
51. Give more to charity
52. Go to my school games
53. Grow up
54. Help children with their work
55. Join a professional organization
56. Keep in touch better
57. Keep my car clean
58. Laugh more often
59. Learn a new language
60. Learn to drive
61. Learn to fly
62. Less eating out at restaurants.
63. Less sex
64. Listening better
65. Lose weight
66. Make a plan
67. Make a TO DO list every day
68. Make my bed
69. More sex
70. Party less
71. Pay my bills on time
72. Pay taxes
73. Pick up after myself
74. Plan a vacation
75. Plan retirement
76. Read more
77. Reduce stress
78. Reduce taxes
79. Save more
80. Say I love you daily
81. Sell a house
82. Send fewer texts on my phone
83. Send out cards
84. Set goals
85. Smile more
86. Spend less time on the computer
87. Spend less time on the internet
88. Spend more time on the family and friends
89. Spend more time with the grandchildren
90. Spiritual/ Religious growth
91. Start a 401
92. Start a new business
93. Start a new hobby
94. Start a relationship
95. Start dating
96. Stick to my plan
97. Stop being so grumpy
98. Stop being so loud
99. Stop being so serious
100. Stop drinking
101. Stop procrastinating
102. Stop smoking
103. Study harder
104. Take a trip
105. Take work related training or seminar
106. Tame the bulge
107. Tell more bedtime stories
108. Travel more
109. Treat my employees better
110. Try something I have not done in a long time
111. Try something new
112. Visit your Dentist
113. Visit your Dr
114. Visit your grandparents more often
115. Visit your parents more often
116. Volunteer more
117. Watch less TV
118. Work less
119. Work more
120. Work out
121. Work smarter
122. Write a book
123. Write a play
124. Write a TV script
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Blog Marketing With Trackbacks
Jack Humphrey takes a few minutes to explains the importance of trackbacks and how to get the most of them for your blog. As a new blogger myself I have heard the term and had seen it but it was not until I watched this video that I really got how powerful they can be for driving traffic to your blog and it is FREE.
Tags: Blog, Blog Links, Blog marketing, Effectivie blogging, free publicity, Powerlinking, Trackbacks. Blogging
Does your niche include 70% of the world’s population? If not would you like it to?
Do you think you could find a way to blog and reach them? I think you can and that is just what I am doing today. Blogging in a way to reach them, you know that is a big audience.
I have an interest in the human mind, how it works and how we as people operate. And when I find a statistic that states nearly 70% of the world’s population does anything I am interested. What is it I am referring to in this post? In one form or another roughly 70% of us suffers from the Impostor Syndrome the feeling of “I am a fake”.
I know I can write in such a way that provides a solution to that large segment of the world. I am not trying to solve all the world’s problems, just a few for the roughly 70% that feel like success is not okay for them, for the ones who feel like they may be exposed as a fraud- a fake at some point. For the one’s who have a hard time taking credit for success or even a simple Thank You to praise, for those of you that feel that others think you are more capable than you think you are.
That all may be the truth in your mind and in the minds of the vast majority of people out there, but don’t let it stop you. Shortcomings are there to keep us humble, to be overcome and to thrive in the face of.
If you feel inadequate in any way about blogging then say to yourself, I get that is how I feel AND I have something to say and then say it anyway.
Blogs are excellent ways for you to voice yourself, for you to just be you and have a say so in the matter of your life. And when you do you will find your words will resonate with other people in a way that they will want to come back to your blog and read it, subscribe to your feeds and maybe blog about you, even become a customer of yours if that is your goal.
So as you write your blog remember that nearly 70% of your audience feels inadequate to some degree and when you can write to help them overcome “The Impostor Syndrome” or live effectively with these feeling you can not only help them along the way but also build trust for yourself with them.
People like and do business with people they trust.
Fake it till you make it or take on a way of being that empowers you to excel despite the overwhelming evidence you have created for yourself that says you are less than. And next join the crowd of us that feel just like that at one point or the other in our lives and do it anyway.
Ask yourself when you write:
- In what way will this impact my reader’s life?
- Who is my audience?
- What are they looking for?
- When do they want it or when will this be a solution for them?
- Where in their life will this impact them?
- Why is my solution the solution for them?
- How will this solve problems?
It is all mindset; from content, to reaching your audience, to selling your products and services.
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This post was inspired by a blog post by John Graden and his book The Impostor Syndrome.
You can find out more by visiting: http://www.theimpostorsyndrome.com
Follow John on twitter: http://twitter.com/JohnGraden
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Tags: Blog, Effectivie blogging, How to creat great content, Impostor Syndrome, John Graden, Learning how to blog
