When I tell people I write about leadership, strategy and performance and have published over 150 articles on my website, they go, “Wow!” When I tell them I blog, they look for someone less weird to talk with.
And the Guy who Explored the Idea.
Unfamiliar words AND familiar faces have a way of boxing us in.
–ME “Liz” Strauss
Self Promotion: Telling Stories for the Painfully Shy
Self-Promotion: How I Learned to Stop Shooting Myself in the Foot
Most of us are at least a little bit familiar with how valuable a blog can be for a business.
Improving search engine rankings, raising company visibility and awareness, driving traffic to the main business web site, and building business reputation are among the many benefits that can be seen when a business starts blogging effectively.
Tonight, though, let’s turn it around.
Let’s talk about the idea of turning your blogging hobby into a business.
How do you do it?
How can you make the transition from hobby blogger to business blogger?
Placing ads of some kind on your blog is one way to start.
But what else is there?
Here are some ideas to get the conversation rolling:
The ways to earn money on the internet are only limited by our creativity and we’ve only begun to scratch the surface with things like AdSense.
Let’s think outside the box and kick some ideas around.
Thank you, Chris!
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Chris Cree helps business fuel growth through blogging at his SuccessCREEations –ME “Liz” Strauss
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Iââ¬â¢ll go first. Chris, what is the single greatest benefit of business bloggers?
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“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” –Abraham Lincoln
Oh, how true it is!
How often do we find ourselves in that same situation? Or, if you are too uncomfortable to admit it yourself, how often have you seen someone else there?
I’m not sure what I’ve got. But I want something different.
I suspect a massive percentage of our problems in this world can be traced back to that simple state of discontentment. [Read more…]
“Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing.” –Wernher von Braun
You may remember the name Wernher von Braun. He was a true rocket scientist. One of the first.
He headed up the rocket program for Nazi Germany in World War II and when the war was ending surrendered to US troops and was moved to the States to continue working on his rockets.
I remember him as the mythical hero of the main character in the movie October Sky. You know. The one that the main character met in his moment of triumph and didn’t even recognize.
I can relate to that moment.
Anyway. There is no question that von Braun was a brilliant man. Even if I’m not.
Words are powerful.
How we phrase things can make all the difference.
I sometimes tell people “I’m deadline motivated.” My wife says that’s a polite way to say that I’m a procrastinator.
If you had a choice, which one would you share with folks?
Now I see there is a polite way to describe all the time I’m on the internet. I used to think I was just cruising the web, surfing the internet. Mostly just poking around. My wife is often tempted to say I’m wasting time.
Now, in those moments when the subject comes up, I can honestly say, “No honey. I’m doing some basic research.”
Talk about a better say to say it! Perfect.
During my research time (I gotta start practicing this one now) putting this post together I found that Homer Hickam, the guy that wrote the book that the movie October sky is based on, has a web site.
I think that’s cool because Gorgeous and I listened to one of his other books on tape during our road trip over the holidays. We really enjoyed it. In fact, I liked it enough that the author’s name stuck with me. And that’s saying something.
You can even check out Homer Hickam’s blog.
Well its sort of bloggish. A little bit.
I guess blogs are starting to become cool, even if folks don’t quite get it completely yet. But that’s just the Way I C it.
–Chris Cree, SuccessCREEations.
Now I’ll be the first to admit that there are some things I just don’t get.
For example I don’t get most things that have to do with home decorating. When Christmas rolls around my wife will take some classy looking ornaments and, say, arrange them on a side table over a snazzy table cloth with some glass bead strings snaked around the table.
It looks great! But I never would have thought to do that on my own. To my way of thinking ornaments belonged on a tree. Arranging them festively on a table would never have occurred to me.
This sort of thing has become a running joke in our marriage. We’ll see something along those lines and she will turn to me. Do you get that? You don’t get that do you?
Nope.
It looks great and all. But that someone would have taken the time and effort? Don’t get it.
I’m really OK with not getting some things.
I get most things about business. But there are some things about the whole marketing thing that I just make me shake my head. Nope. Don’t get that either. [Read more…]
When a close friend, Chris Cree, asks me a question, like the one at the end of this post, “Why do you blog?” I have to figure out whether to respond with my default response –a deep meaningful answer.
Some questions — “What are you doing?” — don’t ask for philosophy. I find I keep more friends, and they are happier, if I sort which questions want a deep, meaningful answer and which call for information. (Hey, in the end, you can walk away, but I’m stuck listening to me rattle like an old three-wheel bicycle.)
Gosh, . . . I might have already said more than you needed to know.
[Sorry]
Why do I blog? was the question.
I have three blogs of my own and two others that I blog on regularly. I did two interviews this weekend. Why do I blog? The answer to that has grown, but the reasons haven’t changed.
Chris, you asked for five reasons. When I look out at my blogs these are the ones I see.
Nothing in my life could have prepared me to be a blogger, except everything in my life.
Now I wonder, you are each unique, Lisa, Brian, David, Tony, Chris . . . Why do you blog?
