This is a guest post by Hector Cuevas from HectorJCuevas.com
Mediocrity is often the result of taking the road of least resistance. You agree?…
I’m sure you do. Building successful blogs, strong brands and huge audiences is no walk in the park. This process slaps you in the face with resistance ever step of the way.
But it gets worse. Even though you’ve decided to take on this monster of a task; even though you’ve decided to take the road less traveled by building your internet empire, you may still be getting mediocre results. But why? – Are other successful bloggers smarter than you? That’s highly unlikely…
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This is a guest post by Srini Rao from The Skool of Life
If you know anything about me you know that I have a tendency to look for people with interesting stories. I think social media fame is ridiculous and I could care less how many followers you have on twitter. I never even check how many followers I have on twitter. It’s no secret that I believe metrics and measurements limit your potential.
I believe there’s a tremendous power in reaching out to people because you have a genuine interest in them. The problem is we approach too many things with a “what am I going to gain from this mind set?” What I’ve realized that every single conversation you have with a person whether it be via tweets, emails, facebook comments or anything else creates new possibilities and opportunities in your life.
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Last April was a crazy month for me. I was in Antigua Guatemala for a week, came back to Los Angeles for 3 days, flew to Santiago Chile for 10 days (that’s a 12-hour flight in case you didn’t know), came back to Los Angeles again for a week to finish rushing to Miami for a couple of days.
But that wasn’t all, I did all this in the middle of clients projects and, except for Guatemala, the rest of the traveling was strictly business (when I say business that includes drinks and cigars in the middle… I didn’t say I was complaining). On top of that, my blog has been experiencing some serious issues that required some special attention. Just so you get an idea, every time I publish a post, the entire site goes down, sometimes it will disconnect from the database or it will go completely blank.
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You probably already read a thousand posts about how to promote your blog.
Every blog about blogging has published one and, hell, I probably have written something about it too. And yet, how to put my blog on the map is one of the most frequent questions I get from clients and friends. I don’t blame you, blogging is one of the hottest marketing vehicles nowadays (I heard).
Commenting, guest posting, free gifts, you name it. If you ask me, all good advice. I’m not about to tell you not to do those things because I truly believe they help get some visibility back to your blog. Allow me a couple of minutes to make my point.
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This is a guest post by Hector Cuevas from HectorJCuevas.com
There are a lot of reasons why your blog might not be growing, but I don’t have enough time or space in this article to get into all of them.
What I am going to do is give you the one thing that changed it all for me. This idea, although simple in nature, is very powerful.
I don’t know where I first heard it, but I owe the success I’ve had with my blog to this one single sentence. OK. I’m done building anticipation; here it is. The best way to grow you blog is to leave it. Right about now you’re either having an “Aha” moment or you’re confused as hell.
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This is a guest post by Jonathan Wondrusch from ByBloggers
I’ve known from the day I first hit “Publish” on a blog that I had a lot to learn, so I spend a lot of time looking up as a blogger. Besides sometimes being a pain in the neck, I end up asking questions such as: what separates the folks like of Brian Clark, Sonia Simone, Darren Rowse, and Chris Brogan from the rest of the mere mortals that aspire to achieve what they have?
What I’ve realized is that these supposed, “A-List Bloggers”, aren’t bloggers at all, they are really A-List business people. Sure, they run blogs. They write and produce incredible content constantly. That’s what we get to see on a day to day basis because we don’t get to peek behind the curtain of their operations.
If we had the opportunity to see what their operations really looked like, here’s what we would see:
- Smart, long-term strategies for products, content and community building.
- Coordinated efforts across all areas of the business and content creation, marketing, product development, networking and the rest.
- And chances are, you’d see a team of passionate people working together to turn their visions into reality through a business.
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Mike Stelzner and the Social Media Examiner team are at it again. Raising the bar yet one more time. 2010 was already super successful with two of the most recognized events of the year “Facebook Success Summit” and “Social Media Success Summit”, which were attended by more than 4,400 people.
But in 2011 SME is planning to start early with their new Blogging Success Summit opening on February 1st and running through the 22nd.
Look At All This Value
Here is some of the value delivered in the summit:
- Discover the best ways to market your business with a blog
- Find out how to build an engaging blog presence
- Discover innovative ways to generate quality leads and increase sales with your blog
- Learn how to drive traffic to your blog with Facebook and other social media platforms
- Discover how to grow a loyal blog readership
- See how successful businesses built their blogs
- Gain a leg up on your competitors
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Yep, it’s that time of the year when we publish and consume an unusual amount of best of and top 10 list. And who am I to change the tradition?
So today I’m delivering a compilation of the Top 10 posts of 2010 right here at SocialMouths. In case you missed something…
Also, there are a couple of things I want you to read at the end of this post =)
But before I start with that I have a quick…
A Thank You Note For My Readers
I want to do this now because I know the last week of December is very slow as many of us disconnect to be with our families.
I can’t deny that this has been a great year for SocialMouths in terms of the things you can measure. I’m at about 50k monthly pageviews, bounce rate is insanely low, the subscriptions are at a growth rate that I didn’t expect and I could keep going… I’m thankful for that because it means some of you like what I’m putting out there.
But I’m mostly thankful for the great connections I have been able to establish as clients, fellow bloggers, readers or just friends. The focus for 2010 was to try to deliver as much as possible without asking for anything in exchange but I was definitely able to also receive so much awesome sauce from you guys that I feel I need to come back in 2011 with much more. So that is the intention!
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Don’t Listen To Anybody – The Weirdest Advice You’ll Ever Get About Promoting Your Blog
Every blog about blogging has published one and, hell, I probably have written something about it too. And yet, how to put my blog on the map is one of the most frequent questions I get from clients and friends. I don’t blame you, blogging is one of the hottest marketing vehicles nowadays (I heard).
Commenting, guest posting, free gifts, you name it. If you ask me, all good advice. I’m not about to tell you not to do those things because I truly believe they help get some visibility back to your blog. Allow me a couple of minutes to make my point.
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