@Cliff Ravenscraft @TrishJones You're very welcome, Cliff
Fantastic Cliff. I actually only wanted to hear the part about Feedburner but so glad I stayed to listen to the rest. You mentioned a few strategies that I know I can implement in my business so I can stop trading time for money. Thanks Cliff!
@Cliff Ravenscraft @TrishJones I hate wine, don't drink it, but used to watch Gary Vaynerchuk's Wine Library just because of his passion. I could even ignore the expletives!
Cliff, "Be Judged or be Ignored ..." One of the reasons I listen to your podcasts, though new to your shows, is the fact that you are you ... you are real.
In fact, I'm more like you than the "clean professional," and you've given me permission as I've been listening to more of your podcasts to just chillax! Seriously, thank you for just being you!
@akaTGIF Thank you! Started another one yesterday for my main site and absolutely loving it. Whilst I don't mind writing, I love to talk, (I know, I'm a woman!) and podcasting is enabling me to use my natural talent. @Cliff Ravenscraft , there is so much to learn. You think you have the handle on one thing and something else shows up. Being able to keep coming to your site for information though has been sheer bliss!
@Cliff Ravenscraft What do you mean you "WANT to learn" how to speak like the Brits. I thought you did a great job! Your cockney accent was better than if I gave it a try. :-)
Thank you for the plug and link Cliff! So appreciated. Am listening now and have already learnt something new ... I now know why you just add the episode number to the slug or permalink of your podcasts .... so much easier to give people the url. Great content as usual. Thanks!
Thanks for this great reminder, Jay,
I confess, I've deviated from this somewhat over the past couple months and, I'm noticing that my subscribers are not the same quality and, I've been getting fewer ... back to focusing me thinks!
Well said Trey. I'd rather go deep than wide when it comes to friendships. I honestly believe the Internet is turning us into fakes ... we all pretend to be interested in each other and it's just not true. T Harv Eker said, "how you do anything is how you do everything." Is this what we want to practice ... fakery in our relationships so it becomes a learnt behaviour and we're then without realising the wider impact, we start pretending to listen to our spouse or kids or close friends.
Thanks for this Jay. I was almost feeling the need to opt out of some elements of social networking altogether, but your suggestion of pairing down is a much better solution. Haven't had a chance to play with Google + (not honored enough to get an invite :-() but, I've heard some good things and looking forward to it.
Thanks again for sharing, Jay.
It's difficult especially when there are world time zone differences but, if someone is responding immediately to questions on social media sites, I would be inclined to think they have no discipline or, they have too much time on their hands and therefore, not enough work.
Wow, this is such a mature attitude if ever I've seen one Jay ... "there is enough room in this business for everyone." True, some people are more knowledgeable than others in every business but should that be a justifiable barrier to entry. Everyone has to learn at something and in my view, the best way to learn is to either train or do it for someone else.
Danny Brown I'd have to agree with your point about not fighting with fire Danny and this is where the maturity has to kick in on the part of the publisher. Even when commenting on other people's blogs, it's best to get the keyboard frenzy over with, read what you've written and then ask, "how much will this benefit me?" I swear this one strategy has kept me out of trouble on more than one occasion! :-)
I think this all comes down to perception ... how does a blogger want to be perceived by prospects? Yes we have to handle criticism well but there are times when readers just have to know you're no pushover and, some of them 40, 50 or otherwise, walk out of the playground, onto your blog and start playing up like a child tired and ready for bed. Sadly, free publishing does not bring with it a requirement to be mature it's sometimes borderline between someone asking a question and being down right rude.