How much money can you make blogging?
A lot and none. I've been blogging since early 2007 and have made money and gotten recognition from it, but not in the way that most aspirants think of it.…
Must use social media tools to grow your online business
By this time, the question of whether or not you should be using social media to grow your online business has been answered definitively, and it was a yes. The…
How to write good headlines for SEO
Blog post and webpage headlines can make or break a visitor's time on your website. A bad blog post headline is like an uninteresting email subject line, a boring book…
The 2 BEST WAYS to learn something new
Last year at TED, Eli Pariser gave a talk on how Google, Facebook, and other internet-based services are increasingly filtering the web to only show up things that we generally…
Drive by Daniel Pink
Who? People managers and anyone interested in interpersonal communication. When? Put it in your queue. Why? Drive is a fascinating book. Best Quote The monkeys solved the puzzle simply because…
The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
Who? You should read this book if you're interested in people, power, and politics. When? I would be interested to find out what a high schooler thinks of this book,…
Learn to blog like a professional
There was a point early in my career, where I built a Twitter presence that (at the time) was on the Top 100 Most Followed list and a blog that…
7 Simple Ways to Use Pinterest for Business
Although many businesses struggle to use social media to their benefit, the ones that effectively harness it make huge gains in at least awareness and retention, if not also revenue.…
THE 2 ways to get over fears
In September, Seth Godin wrote about Talker's Block and how no one gets it – unlike Writer's Block – because we're so accustomed to speaking and having our words mean…
The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Who? People that like economics, sociology, psychology, politics, or being brainy. When? Whenever you get to it. There's no rush. Why? The Black Swan is at the very least interesting…