Save the cheerleader, save the world
OK maybe not. Peter Petrelli from heroes needed to save the cheerleader to save the world. You however, can save the world just a little bit at a time.
Making a conscious decision to do your bit for the world and environment will help us all save the world together. It really is the little things that matter, like using reusable shopping bags, recycling where possible and turning off devices at the mains when not in use.
Doing a little often is enough to build momentum. Just like creating an interesting blog.
Posted to Blogging, Life
No distractions please
Darkroom is a place to do just normal writing without any distractions. It allows people to just write, no popups, no emails, no images, just simple writing.
Once you have your text inserted, you can then paste your text into wordpress for formatting.
A must have utility for any blogger.
Posted to Blogging, Productivity
Quick win v Long term success
Another great post from Seth Godin
“Many bloggers seem to be on a perpetual hunt for the front page of Digg. Sure, it brings you hordes of eyeballs, but then they turn around and leave. What’s the point of that, really?
I think that are plenty of tips you can follow to optimize your offering for this fickle mass group. But it’s still a crap shoot. Doesn’t it make more sense to incrementally earn the attention of a smaller, less glitzy but far more valuable group of people who actually engage with you? And the best part is, your odds of success are a lot better.”
This is exactly what type of blog I see this as, one where I have a small amount of loyal followers, that I can try and add value to their lives by sharing my successes, failures and findings in my own life. Self promotion is great for a quick hit in traffic, however word of mouth seems to get the type of people I think this site is aimed at.
Posted to Blogging
Running a blog to support your MicroISV
Blogging is an essential marketing tool when creating something from scratch and Yaro Starak has some excellent tips on the matter. Linking to other successful blogs is a sure way to get notice, Ian Landsman kindly mentioned me on his blog to this effect :-
”Here’s another that looks promising, we’ll see.
PS. Both Tony and Starr (the last one I posted about) hit the secret to getting noticed. Link to me or HelpSpot. I (as most bloggers) watch my referrers, so link and you’ll get linked back. And if you have no readers yet make sure to click the link yourself!”
When I first started this blog I didn’t know if it would be worth it but after only a week I have seen a traffic spike. I have been busy planning how to structure it best and my intentions are to try to post every two to three days. I could post a whole lot more however I need the time to actually build my product.
I think it’s essential to treat your blog as your own personal media outlet and 37signals are the masters of this. They have created a following one can only dream of and there take on web apps and how they should be designed is something I hope to emulate to some degree of success.
I will structure my blog into 5 main categories – building a web app, business, blogging, productivity, and nutrition. The categories should now be visible to the right.
To show how effective this can be I have included a picture from google analytics. It shows how I went from a flat line of no visitors to a small spike when linking to Ians blogg, and then a hugh spike when people clicked through to me from his posting about this site. Simple huh?
Posted to Blogging
