What’s the right way to comment on other people’s blogs? Ari reckons that comments should be unique. Don’t write the same comment on every blog; don’t drone on if your point can be made quicker. Be unique, quick & current. I agree with the first two but not the third. How you comment on other [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Chris Brogan'
The Right Way To Comment On Chris Brogan’s Blog
February 20th, 2010 · View Comments · ProBlogging
Tags:Branding·Chris Brogan·Market research·Positioning·ProBlogger·Strategy·Thought Leadership·Web Marketing·writing
The Dunning-Kruger Effect & How To Fail Slowly
February 9th, 2010 · View Comments · Strategy
Have you noticed this obsession with speed? Everyone is doing things, real fast. Even failure has to be fast. Fail fast is the new mantra. Christopher S. Penn takes up this point, ‘Ever done this? You see a traffic jam ahead, get off at the next exit, and spend 30 extra minutes on side and back roads to go around the jam… which in reality is only a 10 minute traffic jam? This is the dabbler. This is the person who fails too fast.’ Do you fail too fast?
Tags:Business·China·Chris Brogan·Christopher S. Penn·Dunning–Kruger effect·Failure·Leadership·Motivation·Skills·Strategy
12 Steps To Getting Started as a Business Consultant
January 26th, 2010 · View Comments · Business Model, Career, Strategy
Most people think it’s difficult start a career as a business consultant. I used to think the same in my early 20s when I started in IT. In retrospect, I should have made more efforts to establish myself as a consultant earlier; the benefits certainly outweigh the downsides. As luck would have it, I was forced into a consultancy role when I lost my 9-5 job. Time to learn to hustling and bring in business.
Tags:Business·Career·Chris Brogan·Consultant·Harvard Business Review·Linkedin·management·Management consulting·Richard Branson·Strategy·Tom Peters
How To Make 200 Extra Minutes Every Week & Leave The Office Before Everyone Else
November 4th, 2009 · View Comments · Productivity
Looking for time-saver tips? This works. I get between 60-200 emails every day. 60 is low. Once I got over 480. As I run my own business, every minute is counted. Even when I worked 9-5, I kept a tight control of my email. If you don’t control it, it’ll control you.
What I want to [...]
Tags:Business·Chris Brogan·E-mail·Gmail·Harvard Business Review·Hotmail·Prod·seth godin·Time-·Time-saver·Time-wasting·Yahoo
Chris Brogan: If You Intend To Blog Seriously
October 24th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Social Media
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Chris Brogan writes: Blogs are not traditional media, and bloggers are not journalists. Unless they are. But it’s not a requirement.
A blog is software. It’s something one puts up on the web to capture information, of whatever type one wants to put on there, and thus, if anyone tells you that you’re doing [...]
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How to Blog Almost Every Day – Use the Inverted Pyramid story format
October 12th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
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Do you want to update your blog every day?
Chris Brogan provides this framework for writing a blog post (almost) every day. He adds that while it’s not easy, once you develop the right habits, they stick with you. I’m writing quite regularly now, but it took me several years to get [...]
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How to Get Your Email Answered
October 6th, 2009 · Comments Off · How To, Productivity
Chris Brogan (read and bookmark!) just hit a new milestone.
He’s now getting over 600 emails a day on average. 50% were people asking me his time, 25% were “really nice people,” 20% were business opportunities, and 5% were friends. A quick bit of math: if he answered 1 email a minute, 600 emails would take [...]
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