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Forming Your Network of “Weak Ties” for Achievement & Success Photo by Osvaldo_Zoom

Forming Your Network of “Weak Ties” for Achievement & Success

by Derek Jensen · 33 comments

Every­one has their per­sonal story of how they got to where they are right now. But, what if I asked you if you’ve formed your net­work of “weak ties” or what oth­ers may call an alliance or even an inner cir­cle. These “weak ties” I want to talk about are peo­ple you have many casual talks with, but when it comes time to press for­ward they are there for you and will intro­duce you to their very own.

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blog consistency battle

Battle of Consistency: Don’t Pull the Plug on Your Community

by Derek Jensen

Con­sis­tency is talked about in terms of impor­tance from day one when we start blog­ging. It’s impor­tant to have con­sis­tency because we want our audi­ence to know we mean busi­ness and we’ve got to build our cred­i­bil­ity early on. Remem­ber and know that the con­sis­tency of your blog does not just mean fre­quency of publishing, […]

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5 Ways to Skyrocket Your Blog Traffic

by Onibalusi

One of the major prob­lems many peo­ple face is get­ting traf­fic to a blog, and the truth in the online world is that traf­fic is very essen­tial to any online busi­ness you do; it is traf­fic that brings about peo­ple that buy.

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Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 2

by Derek Jensen

In part one of using the prac­tice or method of mind map­ping for our blog expan­sion I cov­ered a few begin­ning steps to always keep in the back of your head and the start of build­ing your blog. We start by brain­storm­ing and then orga­niz­ing all the thoughts to real­ity. Now, in part two today I want to […]

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Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 1

by Derek Jensen

When it comes time to expand our blogs we need to take many things into con­sid­er­a­tion and use cau­tion along the way. We can do this while in the process of expand­ing our blogs through mind map­ping in the begin­ning stages. This prac­tice surely does not elim­i­nate any mis­takes for build­ing our blog, but instead […]

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Blog Community Response

Instill the Urge for Community Response

by Derek Jensen

What makes your estab­lished com­mu­nity, com­mit­ted read­ers, or fre­quent vis­i­tors leave some sort of response to your blog? It’s because of our qual­ity con­tent, our invit­ing com­mu­nity, or that we inter­act with our read­ers. It’s not because we sim­ply ask for their com­ments or thoughts. Why not? This gets our com­mu­nity to respond, but it’s […]

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Why You Shouldn't Run Multiple Blogs for One Simple Reason

Why You Shouldn’t Run Multiple Blogs for One Simple Reason

by Alex

Man­ag­ing more than one blog at a time is a dan­ger­ous and costly mis­take. In this arti­cle, I will explain to you why cre­at­ing one pow­er­ful com­mu­nity on a blog is the smartest thing to do.

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Over Delivering

Blogging is About Over-Delivering, and Chances are: You’re Not Delivering Enough

by Alex

Giv­ing a reader more than what they expect is ideal for many rea­sons; get­ting signups, mak­ing money and earn­ing more traf­fic. Do you deliver enough to your readers?

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Increase Productivity by Doing Nothing

The Art of Doing Nothing

by Alex

Did you know that by sim­ply relax­ing, you can become more pro­duc­tive? It’s not a lie or even an under­state­ment — read more to find out what we’re talk­ing about.

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