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What Should I Blog About?

September 11, 2013 — 3 Comments

It’s a catch 22: you can only discover and hone your concept and style in the process of blogging, but you haven’t started blogging yet because you can’t seem to hone your concept and style. You have great ideas, but you have a hard time putting them down on paper in an organized fashion. Let me help you: Blogging Lesson #1 is Just Start Blogging!

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Writing a blog is not writing a book. If you write a bad book, that can put a taint on your reputation that follows you for years. But if you write one bad blog post (or even a year of bad blog posts), it will soon get buried under the many, many posts that follow it, as long as you KEEP MOVING FORWARD! Continue Reading…

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Creating Your Blog

September 8, 2013 — 8 Comments

I’ve become so convinced of the potential impact of the practice of blogging that I seem to try to convince everyone I come in contact with to start a blog.

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Blogging is arguably the most powerful, accessible, and adaptable platform for mass communication in the world today. In you have a message . . . if you have something to say . . . if you have a contribution to make to the world that requires communication . . . there is no better way to say it than by creating a blog! Continue Reading…

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Building Your Online Platform

September 7, 2013 — 3 Comments

An online platform can elevate your message just enough for a massive number of people to hear it and benefit from it. And building one has never been easier!

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I was talking to a good friend of mine recently, and I asked him what he wanted to do in life. I want to help people, he responded without a moment’s hesitation. And, in fact, I hear that response from a lot of people. It seems that the older we get, the more we realize that our lives are most meaningful when we are in the process of helping others. Whether you are aware of it or not, at the deepest part of your heart, you want to help people. Continue Reading…

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