Remember as you create awesome content, it’s also important to ask insightful questions to engage your readers. Do your best to keep the dialog open with your readers by commenting back. There is a great WordPress Plugin you can use to nest your comments under each commentator. It’s called WordPress Thread Comment . (see my post on it) [...]

This afternoon I had the opportunity to interview Nick Logan in my latest “Take 5 with the Tribe” interview series. Nick Logan is one of the co-founders of the Empowered Tribe and gives some great pointers on finding your passion, video marketing, and the new changes in Google that make it more important than ever to [...]

Social proof is powerful and not something to overlook as a new blogger. When people land on a website with hundreds of people in a Google Friend Connect Box or in a Facebook Fan Page Box for you, it immediately gives you more credibility. It’s kind of like a guest book at a bed and breakfast. If [...]

Kary, I read your post regarding the 14 Truths To A Life Of Financial Wisdom . Although I am not familiar with James Rickard of the Stewardship Services Foundation, I found myself once again empty with the wisdom of these truths. This is not to say that they are not appropriate or valuable but often the underlying behavior or [...]

One of the most creative and most effective marketing strategies I ever did was to create a graphic ‘blog roll’ page on my blog called ‘My Tribe.’ This page alone has had thousands and thousands of views and has helped bridge new blogging alliances for content/tribe syndication right from the beginning. Because I went out there and made [...]

I know what you’re thinking… I’m going to go into a long monologue about the necessity of joining a network marketing company or having a blog or doing Internet or social media marketing to live a life of Financial Wisdom , right? BUT I’M NOT! There’s a simple reason for that…  ‘most’ people (97% of the public) have no business [...]

Have You Heard Of Manball? My buddy Nick Logan edited my video footage of when we were at Jonathan Budd & Aaron Fortner’s home in San Diego this past March. Always remember that getting some valuable group training from your main mentor… can’t be beat…Especially when it involves getting schooled in MANBALL! lol I’m looking forward to your commentary on [...]

Have You Heard Of Manball? My buddy Nick Logan edited my video footage of when we were at Jonathan Budd & Aaron Fortner’s home in San Diego this past March. Always remember that getting some valuable group training from your main mentor… can’t be beat…Especially when it involves getting schooled in MANBALL! lol I’m looking forward to your commentary on [...]

Experts generate their reputation through research, exposition and analysis. They are worthy of citation and trust from others within their field both on and offline. How do you write authoritatively? Here are ten successful techniques. 1. Do your best As a reader, you search for immersion in what you’re reading. As a writer, you want your readers to [...]

Have you had the fantastic opportunity to come “Face To Face” with people that you’ve met online that live out or your region or country? I’ve had several occasions this year where I’ve been able to spend some REAL QUALITY TIME connecting offline in San Diego, Las Vegas, and now MY BACK YARD! I love what has been [...]

So it’s been over a month now since Katie Freiling launched her much anticipated Unified Tribe Syndication Platform. I had been eagerly waiting for it for over 6 months and when it became available I was eager to jump in and give it some action. And I’m so glad I did! Below is a Top 10 List [...]

Use video and personal pictures as often as possible. When people see you and hear you, you become more familiar to them, which furthers your ‘Brand’ in their eyes. Trust is built through increased transparency. Rapport is created. And ultimately influence will transpire through this process. Isn’t it true that you feel like you know certain people you’ve [...]

How much should I share about my personal life on my blog? If any? Always include an ‘About Me’ page. This page is so important and needs to really tell your story: where you were at, what happened during your journey, what you learned, and how you’ve come through to the other side… Again, I can’t over emphasize [...]

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For organizational purposes it’s also necessary for you to create specific categories and subcategories on your blog. Figure out what most of your posts will be about. Choose 3-4 broad categories like Social Media, Wellness, and Internet Marketing for example. Subcategories for Social Media could be Facebook, Twitter, & Youtube. Under Wellness could be Whole Foods, Exercise, [...]

There are loads and loads of systems, tools, and info products on the Internet that are fantastic and jammed with value. Many of those offer affiliate opportunities to generate income for recommending them to friends or readers on your blog. If you honestly feel that they will help people succeed, then you should promote them. A display [...]

First of all, it’s essential that you have a way for people to connect with you on the social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube. This is how your messages and content can spread virally. This strategy produces powerful mouth-to-mouth referrals to content that gets passed quickly and massively throughout the Internet. Two important WordPress Plugins [...]

Today I’m going to reveal one simple fact… You must, must, must have a subscription/optin box. This is absolutely crucial and necessary! Without it you have no way to grow your ‘list’ of people to market to and to invite them to return to your blog when you have new blog posts to share. And TRULY the [...]

The blogging world is opening up and shifting drastically right now. We are on the verge of an absolute tipping point in the way that people communicate, interact, and do business online. Over the next several weeks I’m going to be sharing with you a series I call “Blogging For Beginners.” In the coming posts I’m going [...]