I was interviewing Tara Jacobsen of Marketing Artfully (an AWESOME blog, btw) for my somewhat-neglected podcast, Write Your Business Book Fast. Tara and her writing partner/editor Rebekah Welch wrote and published a book a week for half a year. Yes, that’s insane. But not impossible. When they decided to embark upon the writing crazy train,…
When I do talks to groups, I usually have a slide that looks like this: It’s something I learned at a writing seminar back in the (ahem) 80s and it obviously stuck with me. The concept goes like this: Try to come up with as many different angles about your topic as humanly possible. The…
“Is blogging dead?” I asked myself looking around a jam-packed room. I am fortunate that I live close enough to Tampa, Florida that I can make the occasional run up there and network with a wide variety of entrepreneurs. About a year and a half ago, I walked into a Meetup for podcasters—people who either…
A lot of people advise you to use a blog to “build your platform” but what exactly does that mean? And more importantly, how do you pull it off? In its simplest terms, your platform is your stage. It’s where people can find you and hear your message. It is your spot in the public…