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Books all Bloggers MUST read

December 22, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I am a huge reader and one of the things that I use my Online Profits for is cleaning out my Amazon Wish List.  Now I have a number of new books that I am going to have to add to the list.  ChrisG has written a post on ProBlogger called “5 Influential Books All Bloggers Should Know“.

This is a relatively old post, but I was going through my starred feeds and noticed it again.

There are a number of them that I have not heard of before, but there are a few books that I would definitely add to the list would be:

ProBlogger

I understand why he didn’t (Chris authored the book with Darren) but it is an amazing book for the beginner blogger, and a great resource for the blogger who has been around.  The chapters on “Blog Writing” and “Blog Promotion” were very useful to me.

The Dip

Seth Godin writes great books on marketing, and the Dip is great.  It is all about teaching when to quit and when you persevere.  I hear a lot of people saying that you should get the audio, but come on it is not that long.  I find that if you read it once, you will understand it better than listening to it 3 or 4 times.

And finally The Four Hour Work Week

This book by Tim Ferris is great, and like Chris mentions when talking about E-Myth is great for teaching what you can do to give yourself more time by having others do your tasks.  Like many I was fooled by the title, there is a lot of work to do before you can create a reasonable income only working 4 hours a week, but the book tells you how and makes you excited to get out there and try.

Is there any books that Chris or I missed that you think should be on the short list of every blogger or small business owners wish list?

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The Tyler Cruz model

December 21, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

I have been following Mr Cruz for a while now, and I think that he is on to something.  Now I know that he is not the first person to show how to build a blog up in real time, but he is the first that I have watched from the beginning, and I have a feeling that he really didn’t have much background in the blogging world before he got started.  This is something of a capital that I feel that others that have done the “study” of blogging did have.  They had existing traffic, and industry contacts that they could leverage in their endeavour.  I understand that Tyler wasn’t completely new to the game, but I think that he was mainly involved in the poker world and they typically aren’t the audience that a webmaster blog would be looking for.

Starting in January I am going to be working on my site design, and the type of posts that I am writing to build up a brand.  I need an identity, I have other sites that I can shoot off my mouth, so bluenoser.net has to be about chronicling my experiences and helping others do it too.

What is the brand going to be?

213892-orgI have been asked in the past on how to do this or that, regarding the building or starting a simple website.  How do they get the name?  How do you host it?  How do you do HTML and where can you learn?  I am going to be writing tutorials and such to help these people out.  This will be right from what is a website, the pros and cons of particular CMS systems and how do you monetize your traffic.  There are a couple of reasons that I feel that this is a great way to do it.  One it gives me great content for the site, two it gives me a definite place to point the people who are looking for information, and maybe they will use my affiliate links in the process and three it helps me build an identity.

What about the blog posts themselves?

The largest issue that I have for a number of sites is coming up with ideas on what to write.  If I can build this site into something that people visit, and I can build a trust with those users, I believe that they will be asking me questions that I can answer through the site.  This helps me build content that I know at least one person is looking for, and it is a big world out there so I am sure they are not the only ones looking for it.

And when there isn’t any questions, I have a lot of other projects on the go that I will be writing about.  Sometimes it will be good things, other times it will be about a business issue that I am having and means that I have used to solve it.

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Weekly Friday Link Dump #1

December 19, 2008 By Jeff Leave a Comment

There are a lot of blogs that I read that do a weekly link dump.  I usually think that it is a waste of time, however I am changing my mind.  I think that I understand why people feel that they need to do it. 

There are a lot of great writers out there, and I simply don’t have time to blog about them all.  But I do have time to thumb them, and sometimes Twit them.  Now every Friday I am going to link them on this site.

Marketing

  • #1 Pay Per Click Lie – This is all about the discussions that we all read on the forums.  What are the right keywords, or these keywords suck.  Well maybe your site SUCKs, maybe you are not converting because of the user experience and not the keyword.
  • Are You on a Mission – What you and your company’s mission statement has to say, reflects a lot on the type of management there is within the company.  If your mission statement has a lot to say about the shareholders and not a lot to say about the employees and more importantly the customer, then you are probably working for a poorly managed company over the long run

Business

  • Dilbert December 13, 2008 – Sometimes it makes a lot more sense when Scott Adams talk about it.  You don’t mitigate risk by buying more crap.

Blogging

  • Do-Follow Blog Search – This is awesome, I have seen so many of these lists for sale on DP that it was getting stupid.  Now you can just search for the blogs that you want to post to.
  • Keywords for WLW – AS you may know I have found WLW and I love it.  This is an old page but it has the information that I believe that I need to make WLW the best thing since sliced bread.
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