Utah Valley Writers – Additional Marketing Material
J. Washburn wanted to know how to Get More Traffic to his blog. This technique is awesome for that: http://backlinko.com/skyscraper-technique We talked about blogging, but I felt uneasy how it ended. Follow this top blogger for good blog design: http://www.quicksprout.com/2014/07/07/11-essential-elements-of-a-perfect-blog-design-a-data-driven-answer/ Here’s a good blog post checklist, a bit overkill perhaps, but definitely in-depth: http://coschedule.com/blog/how-to-write-a-blog-post-checklist/. I …
Action Killer #3: Fatigue
Have you ever woke up and been staring at something you didn’t recognize, only to remember you weren’t sleeping in your bed? Well, I did that once while working at 10x Marketing. I pulled a late night, probably to play video games, and then just slept underneath my desk. I dozed off about 3 or 4 …
Action Killer #2: Procrastination
Just before I went out to Costa Mesa, CA to speak at Ann McIndoo’s 1st ever Author’s Business Mastermind I finished reading a report from one of my mentors, Rich Schefren. The report was all about procrastination. Rich’s premise was that procrastination only happens when we don’t have clarity on what we want. When we’re not …
Action Killer #1: Perfectionism
An email from a friend today triggered my thoughts on why I don’t do the things I set out to do… He mentioned that he had begun his writing, and now he just needed to go back and get himself to edit the whole thing. Here was my advice to him. Don’t do it. Get used …
Taking Action & Keeping Commitments
Do you ever struggle to keep commitments…especially ones you make to yourself? Great! I’m not alone then. If you’re like me, you sometimes let things that seem important get in the way of the essential. Sometimes I even know that the things that are getting in the way aren’t important, but I do them anyway. What’s with that? …