Posts Tagged ‘Relationships’

6 Tips for Talking with Your Kids About Divorce

This post was originally intended for Man of the House, but it’s kind of personal and so I’d rather share it with you here.  It’s a bit off my usual focus here, but family is important… “Daddy, why don’t you and mommy live together anymore?” [Silence.] About a year ago, that question stopped me in my tracks. [...]

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A Simple Tactic to Increase Email Subscribers to Your Blog

Ready? And the tactic is… ask.  Profound, isn’t it? Here’s what I mean: For reference, here’s a link to DJ’s Online Marketer Blog (apparently, he’s no longer a fan of Brian Solis).  DJ used to write more frequently and the blog, at one point, had a cleaner design.  Hmmm.  What’s up, DJ? All joking aside, I [...]

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Niche Communities & Curating the Conversation

I’ve been thinking about these two things a lot recently: Niche Communities – Humans now live online.  Lots of them.  But most humans are only interested in the content that speaks to their personal and professional interests.  We know that humans, whether they’re our customers or even fellow industry professionals, tend to engage more with [...]

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Getting Out to Where You Are

It’s about time for an update on where I’ll be speaking over the next few months, in case you’ll be there too. I talk to a lot of you on Twitter, LinkedIn and in the comments here, and I’m glad to have those opportunities.  But I want to meet you in-person, face-to-face.  In-person is where [...]

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Contributing to Junta42′s Content Marketing Institute

When blogging, it’s important to occasionally write outside of your own domain. There’s a mutual advantage.  Writing elsewhere gives you the chance to reach an audience different from your own (possibly gaining some fresh readers of your content).  In terms of SEO, writing elsewhere increases the “link juice” behind your site.  There’s also a bolstering [...]

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10 Tips to Help You Do Better Interviews

I received this message from Andrew Dechellis on my contact form this week: Hey man I have a question, I was wondering if you could help me out with. I am going to be interviewing Jordan Romero (youngest person to ever climb Mt Everest – 13yrs old, completed in May 2010). I have writing in my past [...]

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5 Ways to Assess How Influential You Are on Twitter

I have the pleasure of lending NateRiggs.com to Cheryl Harrison for this guest post.  Cheryl has over 10 years of experience using social media tools, going way back to the days of AIM chat rooms, LiveJournal and GeoCities. Cheryl is an agency-reared marketer, a member of the Columbus Yelp Elite (where she has written over 2oo [...]

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How To Build a Customer-Centric LinkedIn Group

LinkedIn is still gaining momentum in the B2B world. With over 70 million professionals holding profiles, it makes good business sense for companies to start looking at how to use LinkedIn as an everyday business solution. I thought it was interesting that even Chris Brogan would check in on LinkedIn, if there was a location-based component.  His target [...]

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Education Strategies – Blogging & Social Media in the Classroom

Here are two questions to think about: If social media and blogging were popular when you were a student, and there was a program to teach you how to use these tools, would that have signed up? Do you think it would have had an impact on your career path? The Social Learning Lab at Hi-Point My [...]

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Quick Updates on Social Business Strategies

I feel like I haven’t really been keeping you up-to-date on what’s happening at Social Business Strategies. For the sake of time, I’ll just let the video do the talking.  Okay? I often struggle with what I write here.  On one hand, I feel like what I’m working on – from a business standpoint, in [...]

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