Storytelling With Frog & Toad

Writing blogs, or doing videos, or audio, or anything we do in marketing is storytelling. Today I read from one of my favorite children’s books ‘Frog and Toad’ to demonstrate that storytelling is what we should all aspire to be better at. The copyblogger will tell you this over and over. He tells stories, and he tells them well. Look at other successful people online. Most of them are master storytellers. You should work on it.  Read More →

New BUMPzee Community Launched Today: How To Be Successful Online

You all know how much I love BUMPzee! Well, I love it even more now that I was chosen as one of the select few to manage my very own community while it’s still in beta. So what community did I make? Introducing the ‘How To Be Successful Online’ BUMPzee Community Bookmark this: http://www.bumpzee.com/onlinesuccess/ What is the community all about? The How To Be Successful Online community is for anyone who is interested in learning how to be successful on... Read More »

Dear CopyBlogger, How Did Your Blog Become So Successful, So Fast?

I’m starting a new feature here on my blog where I’m going to call out some online friends of mine or people that I admire, and ask them to answer questions for me, and you, that we all want to hear. Whether or not they’ll answer I’m not sure, but I’m going to ask. If I do call you out, go ahead and blog about it on your own blog or leave a comment below with your answer. So for my first victim, I call out the Copyblogger himself, Brian Clark. Question:... Read More »

Reposting Other People’s Blog Content Is A Quick Way To Blog Failure, Not Success

I just came across an article over at Lee Odden’s TopRankBlog.com by one of his contributors entitled ‘4 Ways to Successfully Re-Post Others Content’. Re-Posting other peoples content is a great way to feel included in a conversation and get additional traffic. However, simply copying their post word for word won’t give any additional value to your visitors. So here are 4 ways to successfully re-post someone else’s content. I do believe the... Read More »

Want More Blog Traffic? Give Your Expertise Away

You’re an expert at something, right? Or maybe you know a heckuva lot about the topic of your blog, right? At least I hope so. Give your knowledge away. Here’s a perfect example. The Copyblogger had a simple request for his readers yesterday. His headline is written: ‘Let’s Remix a Few More of Your Headlines’. Last fall, I invited readers to submit posts they had written, and I chose several and rewrote the titles. Quite a few people seemed... Read More »