A few years ago I lived in a remote jungle for 6 weeks. Check out this video I filmed from the hut where we spent time: Costa Rica. 3 miles away from civilization. Intense. Beautiful. Brutal. Fun. Enlightening. My wife Kelli and I saw toucans, Mealy Amazon parrots, sloths, monkeys, bullet ants, army ants and […]
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The comment count on Blog Tyrant currently sits at 19,975. With any luck this post will tip it over to the 20,000 mark, something I never imagined possible. This seems like a nice milestone to write some reflections on how we got here, and what it has meant to me personally. I’m really not sharing
5 minutes ago I received an email from someone. The individual wanted to know if I could place 2 of their client links on Forbes. I have been featured on Forbes, so people ask me this. People also ask me if I can feature them on Entrepreneur since I was featured there too. I have
Business directories are a massive marketing tool and you can use them to generate enormous amounts of leads quickly. Many people don’t know directories are a complete business on their own, generating thousands of dollars for the owners. However, they are only effective for bloggers if you know how to make them work for you
Sometimes when I look through my email I can spot struggling bloggers and successful bloggers. Without exception, struggling bloggers do a poor job networking, sending unclear, long-winded, and sometimes, presumptive, rude emails. Successful bloggers send clear, brief and polite emails. Develop the fine art of networking with successful bloggers. This takes time, patience and careful
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Blog traffic flows to generous bloggers. Giving bloggers. One easy way to drive blog traffic is to pull back on checking stats, to free your energies for giving. Free givers find getting pretty dang easy. Generous bloggers busy themselves not with obsessing over their getting (stat checking) but focusing almost exclusively on giving through these
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If you’ve been following me on social media these last few weeks, you may have noticed that I am currently participating in a couple of creative challenges and I intend on seeing them through the rest of year. Some of my friends have called me crazy for trying to tackle two creative challenges at the
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You know this article format. A glance through Content Marketing Institute’s recently published posts, Growthhackers Must Read articles, or BuzzSumo’s most-shared marketing content from the past six months makes it clear – one blog post framework seems to be winning: How (Company You Know) Is Doing (Something) to Achieve (Positive Result) CMI posts included Smackdown
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I found a bizarre travel picture in my collection today. I snapped this image of a chicken-person in Pondicherry India a while back. Seeing the picture made me think; some bloggers are hungry to succeed on one hand but may be a bit of a blogging chicken, being scared to seize and capitalize on prospering
Blogging and content creation has completely changed the way individuals, entrepreneurs and company founders build a name for themselves and show off to expertise. This is especially true for anyone that already has success in writing for their own site, guest blogging on others and also securing contributor deals with the likes of Forbes, Huffington
