The Reading List – Week 1 (reboot)

Back when phones were mostly signal and little noise

So my first attempt at the reading list was not much of a success, but I will be trying again. It may not be every week, but I will keep a post open so that I can point you to the articles that I have sifted through and think are worth a read.

There is so much noise, I am hoping to make these posts all about the signal.

Dealing with difficult people: I looked at the title of this post and thought, “awesome, I need this right now”, thinking it would give me a list of things that I can do to deal.  All it talks about is that you can’t change people, and you have to be the maker of change.  So if there are difficult people in your life you either have to change something about your self or get out of the situation.

How to Destroy your Blog: Expect to see more and more links to this site.  I only found them a few months ago, and a good 60% of the posts have been awesome.  That doesn’t mean that the other 40% is shit, just that are not interesting to me at this point in time.  They have been added to the list of sites that I go to directly on a frequent basis.

Finding Ideas: I have struggled with this at times, but like CopyBlogger says, get writing and reading.  The ideas are all out there for you to steal.

Degaussing Warships: Nothing to do with webmastering, simply my engineering geek coming through.

Content Content Content!

Because cute doesn't replace content

The content makes the site. Its something that I take to heart.  Maybe not especially with this site, as it has turned into a dumping ground for everything that pops into my head that deals with travel, webmaster-ing, domain buying, food, urinals, etc etc

Its the content stupid!

On my other properties I have started the practice of re-visiting the old posts often to clean up the writing.  Great writing converts often, good writing converts sometimes and shitty writing will only convert if someone has found exactly what they were looking for.

Your blog should be a place to convince people that you have something that they didn’t even realize they needed.  If you are consultant selling services, a job hunter selling your skills or a pizza shop selling pies.  A blog is a place to show the world what you have to offer and sell them without being in their face about.

When you are writing a post or article use it as an opportunity to showcase what you know, and don’t always try to sell what you have.  The sale will come when you are the expert in what you know in the niche you are marketing too.

Urinals at The Cellar

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I think that I will make this a regular thing. If I ever find a cool urinal I will take a picture of it.

 

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I’m writing an E-Book

As my latest foray into the Making Money Online space is a marathon rather than a sprint I have been focusing on a couple of sites that fit my daytime (and night time lately) career to a tea.  Part of this is writing an Ebook for managers in this techincal space make heads and …

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New BlackBerry Bold 2

I got a new phone as my storm2 decided to crap out the evening before my vacation.

I went to the Verizon store and picked up the Bold 2. At first glance and for using it for less than 24hrs it appears to be a good phone. I would have said great except it …

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2011/2012 APEGBC Polls are Open

I just received this email from APEGBC regarding votes.  If you are a APEGBC member and have vote, awesome.  However since less that 15% have, I doubt that you have (shame on you).
Members who have not yet voted are urged to cast their ballot and participate in guiding the affairs of the Association. So …

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