“A brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”—Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder. This quote gets pulled out a lot by bloggers (I’ve used it three times in the last week myself) but I wonder if it might be time to give it a little more intentional pondering as we think [...]
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What Do You Want People to Say About Your Blog? A Blog Branding Exercise
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. You’ve probably heard that you should put some of your personality into your blogging. And you know that stories are a great way to engage readers—to capture not just their attention, but their hearts as well. Perhaps some of your favorite bloggers are people like Naomi [...]
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

“Building blogs is like building muscles—in order for them to grow you need to use them.” I tweeted the above statement a few weeks back and it got so much traction I decided to create this video on the topic. The idea for the video came out of the a Skype chat session I had [...]
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

If you haven’t signed up for Copyblogger’s Authority Rules conference yet, you still can… but only until Tuesday May 17 at 5:00 PM Pacific (U.S.) time. What’s Authority Rules? You can think of it as an intensive 30-day “boot camp” for your online business. It’s all based on the business model Brian Clark created over [...]
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Here’s a little exercise that I do periodically to help me keep my blog on track. It’s based upon a typical life coaching-type exercise where you’re asked to visualize your own funeral and write your own eulogy—to think about what you want to be known for after you’re gone. But in this exercise we’re going [...]
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