How to One-Up the Best Blog Post Ever!

There.

You knew when you put in that pithy final line, just punchy enough to ensure a ton of comments and at least 200 retweets. You sat back, cracked your knuckles, sighed deeply and click “Publish”.

Guest Author on September 4, 2010 | Filed Under Writing Content | 9 Comments

Does Working Online Isolate You from the World?

questions and answers This post is part of the Friday Q&A section. If you want to ask a question, just write a comment below.

Cherran asks:

As a person working online, after the initial revenue goals are achieved, I’m getting a feeling that I’m little bit straying away from the normal world. Even for a small business owner with half of our income, he would need to interact with people face to face everyday.

Daniel Scocco on September 3, 2010 | Filed Under Q & A | 17 Comments

We Should Try To Learn More From Other People

Back when I was at the university (around 2002) I went to live in an apartment with three other students. I didn’t know them prior to moving there, but quickly we became good friends. Then one day I was leaving the building to walk to the university and I noticed one of my friends leaving the garage with a BMW Z3 M. Not familiar? At the time it was one of the best BMWs around, with almost 300hp.

Daniel Scocco on September 2, 2010 | Filed Under Strategy | 20 Comments

How to Suck at Writing, and then Write for the Biggest Blogs in the World

Writing hasn’t always been a skill of mine. I rarely ever read when I was younger, and still had my father read me books for years after I had learned how to read for myself.

So how did I go from a forced writer (I only wrote things when I had to for school and never for recreation) to an influential blogger?

Guest Author on September 1, 2010 | Filed Under Writing Content | 13 Comments

30 Tools to Help You Find Domain Names

As you probably know recently I launched a new website, which aims to be a complete resource for people who want to get started online and build their first websites. Traffic is picking up there, and one of the most common complaints I get over the contact form is that readers can’t find available domains that are appealing enough.

Daniel Scocco on August 31, 2010 | Filed Under Web Tools | 6 Comments

Time To Update The Retweet Button?

Twitter became one of the most popular platforms to share links online, and as a result most bloggers and website owners installed a retweet button on their sites.

Daniel Scocco on August 30, 2010 | Filed Under Web Tools | 24 Comments

How I Gained 3,323 Subscribers in 3 Months

In the past few months, I have been working extremely hard at growing my blog The Personal Excellence Blog. The net result is a 3,323 subscribers growth in the past 3 months which I’m very excited about. In today’s post, I’ll share with you the key steps on how I achieved this and hope you’ll learn something for yourself.

Guest Author on August 28, 2010 | Filed Under Promotion | 28 Comments

If I Had Time Available I Would Make an iTV Website Today

As you probably heard about, Apple is going to have a product announcement event next week, on September 1st. There is a lot of buzz around it right now, because industry pundits expect the Cupertino company to announce its new TV set top box, called iTV.

Daniel Scocco on August 27, 2010 | Filed Under Blogosphere | 14 Comments

A Favicon Graph Of The Top 1 Million Sites on The Web

If the title sounds confusing, here is what the guys from Nmap.org did: they scanned the top 1 million sites on the web, according to Alexa, retrieved the favicon of each one, and created a graph where the size of each favicon is proportional to the traffic of the website.

Daniel Scocco on August 27, 2010 | Filed Under Blogosphere | 15 Comments

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