When I ask people why they don’t blog I always get one of two responses:   “I don’t know what to write about.” “Nobody would want to read my stuff.” If that is you, watch this short clip from Seth Godin.  You’ll see why blogging is about more than just the number of people who read [...]

The first time I got email was in seventh grade.  I was so excited.  I spent hours debating what my first email address would be.  If I was going to have an email address for the rest of my life, I had to make it good. After much thought, I came up with the perfect [...]

I started blogging a year a half ago.  It is, by far, one of the best things I could have done to jump start my career. Here is why you should start blogging right now: Writing skills – Writing is the basis of all wealth. No doubt about it. If you are a good writer, [...]

Here is the dilemma: Every day at work I have the opportunity to promote myself to a lot of people. The question is… Should I be using the company I work for to promote my personal online brand? More specifically, should I include links to my blog in the signature of all my emails? What [...]

Topics. Design. Style. Content. Personality. Those are reasons people might subscribe to your blog… But that’s not it. There’s a lot more to it. You’ve got to invest time in building relationships with all of the other struggling bloggers. Reading. Commenting. Emailing. As my friend Mike Sansone puts it, “IT ain’t nothing without the C… [...]