You know it when you see friends doing it. They use words that belittle what they do:
You know it when you see friends doing it. They use words that belittle what they do:
Last week Corbett had a conversation with a friend who proclaimed: “it's too late to build a popular blog or podcast. The day has passed when you could grow an audience and earn a living from it. Maybe you could do it in 2007, or 2009, but not now.”
So many of us get discouraged. We lose motivation, lose heart, lose direction, fizzle out, feel like impostors, scream inside our heads “what the hell do you think you’re doing!?”
Note from Corbett: a couple of months ago Natalie Sisson from The Suitcase Entrepreneur stopped by for an in-depth Founders' Story interview for Fizzle. Afterward we got to talking about strategies she could use to boost her new book launch. I suggested an oldie-but-goodie idea of running a blog challenge. Her results were pretty incredible, and I asked her to share them with you in this special guest post. This is a thorough guide, and the full process is laid out here.
Email is still the single best relational currency online. You can pinterefacetweetplus all you want, but email outperforms them all where it counts. But building and running the email side of your business is problematic.
When you're small, there is so much to celebrate. When you're small, you're capable of handcrafted experiences, thoughtful details and careful outcomes.
Traffic feels like this magic thing that, once attained, makes you invincible… you can run and jump and write and create and everything just gets better. You guys love to learn about traffic. You seem to have an insatiable craving for getting more people to your site.
Of the top 50 viral videos of 2012, over three-quarters of them were funny. In a world where people ignore ads like the plague, Kmart's "Ship My Pants" ad was viewed on Youtube over 19 million times and shared thousands of times over.