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26 Amazing Business Blog Posts from 2010

Posted: January 20th, 2011 | Author: | 4 Comments »
Cover of "Outliers: The Story of Success&...

Cover of Outliers: The Story of Success

This is a list of 26 of the best business posts that I read in 2010. The articles you won’t want to miss are Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything, How (And Why) to Stop Multitasking, 6 Tips on Starting a Digital Business from the Founder of Pandora, Memo to Investors: Entrepreneurs Aren’t Born, They’re Made, How to do 500 Times Better Than AdSense, and Storytelling and the Greatest Sales Letter of All Time. Of these six, don’t miss the sales letter. It’s absolutely amazing.

Enjoy!

p.s. If you pay attention to the titles, you’ll learn a lot about writing good headlines. Read the rest of this entry »

What Exactly is a Blog, Anyway?

Posted: November 24th, 2010 | Author: | 4 Comments »
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A blog is a communication tool. The definition is as simple as that.

I could tell you that the word “blog” is “a blend of the term web log” and is a “type of website or part of a website…usually maintained by individuals with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video.” That’s Wikipedia’s definition of a blog.

But what is it that a blog really does?

It does communication. That’s what it does.

This can be compared to a car. A car technically is a motorized vehicle with an engine, four wheels, a steering wheel, seats for passengers, a gas pedal, and a brake pedal. If you push the gas pedal, it moves foward;  if you push the brake, it stops.

I get that. But what does a car really do? Read the rest of this entry »