There are right and wrong ways to market yourself as an athlete. To become a successful brand you have to do any number of thousands of different things to reach a level that leads to marketing and off court/field success. On the flipside, all it takes is one mistake to bring it all crashing down. I have noticed a trend that is creeping through the NBA that truly disturbs me. It disturbs me because its the equivalent of burning 100 dollar bills. That is how debilitating to any hopes a player may have of making money through endorsements. In the...
Blogging, it’s taken the Internet by storm, so mainstream in fact - mommies are making a killing blogging from their kitchen table while changing little Johnny’s diaper. Everyone wants to be that next profitable blogger… and everyone claims to have a blog training system that will show them exactly how to do it. 99% of them, aren’t even making money themselves, let alone have the ability to teach others how to do it. With that said… I think I’m finally impressed with a blog training system. Blog Success Training http://www.blogsuccess.com Co-Creator: Jack Humphrey (Friday Traffic Report) What they say: We...
If you are not sure who John Chow is, he is a fairly successful Internet Entrepreneur and blogger and the owner of JohnChow.com. This is John’s personal blog, which used to be focussed on making money online, more specifically, discussing how much John makes online by telling people how much he makes online. Did you understand that? Well, that’s what John’s blog used to be about, but over a period of time, its focus has changed, with it morphing into a food connoisseurs blog. Only joking, but if you have ever read his blog, you will have noticed that...
If you are not sure who John Chow is, he is a fairly successful Internet Entrepreneur and blogger and the owner of JohnChow.com. This is John’s personal blog, which used to be focussed on making money online, more specifically, discussing how much John makes online by telling people how much he makes online. Did you understand that? Well, that’s what John’s blog used to be about, but over a period of time, its focus has changed, with it morphing into a food connoisseurs blog. Only joking, but if you have ever read his blog, you will have noticed that...
Blogging company Six Apart has acquired micro-blogging startup Pownce for undisclosed financial terms. It looks like one of those acquisitions where the buyer was more interested in the people than the product — the Pownce service will shut down in two weeks. The San Francisco startup was the brainchild of Digg founder Kevin Rose, Leah Culver and Daniel Burka (also a Digg employee). It’s a micro-blogging service kind of like Twitter, but it allowed users to share much more than brief messages, including embeddable photos, videos and mp3s. Despite those advantages, Pownce’s traffic stalled while Twitter’s skyrocketed, according to data...
I’ve seen so many discussions on RSS, weather it’s good or bad, an asset or a necessary evil for bloggers. There are a lot of comments like “It causes people not to visit your site, resulting in less traffic”. This is totally true and if you think this is bad, you’re probably not making a lot of money anyway. For a blogger there is nothing that is more important than his readers. Weather you write 3 line blurb entries or 10 paragraph long scientific analysis papers, the goal is to get readers who like your stuff. In other words, content...
One website building program that I have been consistantly asked about by readers over the last 12 or more months is Site Build It. While not a blogging platform as such it is a way of building a website for money and as a result I guess readers feel I will have an opinion of it. Unfortunately I’ve not used it before so don’t have any personal experience to offer. When I mentioned this on Twitter recently Julie Bonner (one of b5media’s staff writers) told me that she’d used SBI successfully - I asked her if she’d be interested in...
Over the past few years there has been a tremendous shift toward open platforms and now there are limitless tools to connect with your friends, increase your productivity, and waste your time. Facebook was a tremendous catalyst for this but now there are millions of applications on the web, some useful, some not, most of which now provide developer APIs. For those of you not aware of what APIs are, they enable developers to quickly integrate their own features directly into another service or build upon existing application functionality. Just yesterday I was using my “Remember the Milk” to do...
