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1000+ Already Brainstormed Tweaks and Ideas

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Yea!! Look at This List!

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If you’re looking for ways to tweak your blog, your brand, or your business for better performance, this list will save you the time of compiling ideas. Consider this a major checklist. Take what you like and ignore the rest.

BONUS: I couldn’t resist including this one, though it’s not related to most blogs.

The Top 100 Things I’d Do If I Ever Became An Evil Overlord


–ME :Liz” Strauss
Check out the Work with Liz!! page in the sidebar.

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Simplenomics Has Answers for You

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Are you Wondering What’s Next?

Mike has lined up James Roche to answer your questions on Info products.
There will be a teleseminar and a webcast to answer questions. Click the logo to find out more.

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Then go ask your question.

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Roving Sheila at SXSW 03 -09-07

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South by Southwest, SXSW, is a yearly conference in Austin, TX.serving the film, music, and interactice industries..

Guest Reporter Sheila Scarborough

Greetings Liz,

Thanks for the chance to blog for you, here’s my first email….

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Greetings, Successful Bloggers, let me see if I can whip this out before I go to the BlogHer meetup at 8 pm (BlogHer Technology and Web writer Virginia DeBolt already has a SXSW post up.)

Your Roving Reporter has decided to brave the wilds of SXSW Interactive, the “ground zero for the world’s most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators and new media entrepreneurs.”

Hey, I saw the word “blogger” somewhere in there and figured, close enough.

I’d already paid and registered online (even uploaded my own photo so I didn’t have to take a dorky one for my badge) but my organizational abilities still failed to get me on time to the first panel that interested me, “How to Rawk SXSW.”

(I think to rawk is good.)

Once I waded through Austin traffic, waded through the line to get my badge, waited to have them make my badge (I guess they want to make sure you “have it your way” or something) there were only 10 minutes of rawking left.

It was an interesting 10 minutes.

The panelists spent this last bit of session time telling the audience how to do “contact management,” which is apparently how to meet people.

There were lots of panelist comments to the audience like, “Have meaningful conversations versus many conversations” and “Actually engage in the panel discussions — close your laptop” and “Are you scared of introducing yourself? Buy the person a beer.”

Geek social guidance?
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10 Ways to Start a Blog Post — 01-29-07

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Start with a Few Words

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Sometimes a few words can get a whole lot started.

  1. When I look at the people around me . . .
  2. If I could, I’d invent . . .
  3. It happens the same way every time . . .
  4. When I sit down with the news every morning, . . .
  5. Every relationship has an ROI. . . .
  6. When I was kid, I always thought that by now . . .
  7. Can you help me out here? Is this a new thing? . . .
  8. In this economy, anyone . . .
  9. If you want to have a meaningful conversation with . . .
  10. At this very moment, somewhere in the world, . . .

–ME “Liz” Strauss

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Ideas? 20 Questions to Kickstart New Thoughts

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Get Curious

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What are you thinking right now? Are you thinking about your answer to that question?

We’re good at answering questions. We learn that in school. Sometimes we get so busy preparing our answers that we miss what’s going on around us.

10 Questions to Kickstart New Thoughts

Imagine you just landed on this planet. You’d have a passel of questions and a totally beginner’s view. The key is not to try to fix things, but to find new reactions to what you encounter.

  1. What do you see what you look at me? What do you see when you look at yourself?
  2. What do you hear when you listen to all of the sounds around you?
  3. What is it that everyone wants to know, but is afraid to ask? What are the silly things we don’t tell people that they should know?
  4. What do we do that is touching or ridiculous?
  5. What do we take for granted that seems to have no logic?
  6. What would you do if you had only one day to spend here?
  7. What of our ordinary buildings, machines, and gadgets would stymie and fascinate you?
  8. What about our planet would amaze you?
  9. What about humanity would inspire you?
  10. If you had a conversation with yourself, what would you talk about?

The ideas are waiting in the details. Twist your view; add a dash of imagination; and take a look.

10 More . . .

I have 10 more questions. They’re all about you.

  1. Do you do stuff like keep your ketchup bottle upside down or choose CDs based on who’s in the music store?
  2. Do you find money that you forgot about in a jacket pocket?
  3. Do you get nervous when a boss starts a friendly conversation for no apparent reason?
  4. Do you know a story that people ask you to tell over and over?
  5. Do you wonder what else you might have done with all of the time that you’ve been blogging?
  6. Do you know the most important thing you’ve learned?
  7. Do you know what gadget you would invent if you could?
  8. Do you have a secret for dealing with folks who cause stress wherever they go?
  9. Do you know what you want to be if you grow up? Will you share an idea or two?
  10. Do you wonder what it’s like to be me the way I wonder what it’s like to be you?

If you answered “yes” to any of those, and you decide to write a post, I’d read your answer. I bet that lots of folks would. E-mail me at lizsun2@gmail.com with 20 QUESTIONS POST in the subject line and a link to your post by Wednesday, january 24. I post the links as they come in.

–ME ‘Liz” Strauss

For more ideas see the Successful Series page.

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