Former/Recovering Journalist turned digital marketer and podcaster. I write about all things digital marketing.
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I like trying different open source tools. That’s originally why I put this blog on Ghost and not WordPress. The latter is a tool I’m very passionate about. I’m happy with my decision, especially after the latest negative diatribe/rant/freakout from Matt Mullenweg on X/Twitter,
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Seth and I never overlap on topics. But I can’t resist this week. Nobody likes getting cold emails…. And everyone hates sending them… So why do people keep spamming you? It’s simple (when it comes from a freelancer). We do it because you don’t respond. So yeah.
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Seth and I never overlap on topics. But I can’t resist this week. Nobody likes getting cold emails…. And everyone hates sending them… So why do people keep spamming you? It’s simple (when it comes from a freelancer). We do it because you don’t respond. So yeah.
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Cold emailing is a thing. It’s when you email someone without any contact prior. Often you’re offering your services and trying to setup an appointment with that person. I get hit with these cold emails multiple times per day and almost always just delete them. For me it’
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I wrote this case study on Tiago Forte awhile ago: “Tiago Forte–our future standard for Youtube Case Study” When I wrote it, I thought people would read it… See that great videos come down to the script… And then write a great video. That was dumb. Because that’s
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So I moved all 40 sites that I own or manage to a new host. I left the previous host, not only because of quality of the service, but the feeling like just another number. Now, I am aware, that I am indeed, another number. But when Flywheel was just
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If anyone asks me who I want to be like… It’s Nicolas Cage. “Nicolas Cage? Really???” Really. Because “Cage Rage”– how many actors get their own adjective? 1–Nicolas Cage. Nicolas Cage is talented. Bold. Memorable. It’s hard to be memorable. Think about all the actors you don’
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Labor Day was two days ago. To me it’s one of the less important days of the year. So I’ll probably put some labor in and do a podcast and some work on the business. I know the significance of the day and its importance and I’m
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I just came back from a 4 day trip to Washington DC where I was at the annual WordCamp US for the WordPress community. It was a great time. Lots of great connections made and rekindled, great sessions, and the vendor SWAG was off the hook. One of the biggest
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June sucked. I watched 5 years of my passion, hard work, and sheer willpower crash into one sentence… “People don’t like to write scripts”. It’s true. And I knew it. When I first started my newsletter, I didn’t care if it made money. I just wanted to
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As I write this I’m thinking of a recent Zoom hangout where one of my favorite podcast journalist Skye Pillsbury talked about how she needed to step back from writing her newsletter because of personal reasons, some of which were mental health related. As a paying subscriber to her
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“Does that kind of make sense?” My mentor asked. I sat there thinking over what he said. It seemed simple enough. So it’s just like a theme? Like in a movie” I asked. “Well yes and no. It’s your ‘big idea’. It carries everything forward and wraps the
