Comments on: Strategy. Focus. Simple. Delivery. Planning

By: Ben Hughes

Ben Hughes — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 06:32:49 +0000

David,
I did take some of it. I was going to reply to this post, but then remembered I was on a break. LOL
-I'm writing more often now that I don't think about having to edit and be “correct” in my writings. It helps to be able to just express myself – bringing myself back to the reason I started blogging in the first place.
-I'm tweeting less, more meaningful things. That may sound odd, but it really does work. I'm not really starting conversations anymore through @replies, but I will reply to people if they say something. I'm kind of abiding by that suggestion half way.
-MeTodays are something I've yet to explore. I don't have a Viddler account, but I'm planning on getting one and just seeing where it goes. It's somewhat similar to why I do 12seconds…
-Ohhhh jeez. I'm not really following the “don't follow many people” thing. :/ I'm actually increasing the number of people I follow. I don't know if it's a really good idea, but I don't plan on un-following people if they don't follow back. If I like someone's content, I'm following until they piss me off. lol
-It's REALLY hard to check email only once or twice since I have my Blackberry now. I find it actually MORE easy to do lots of mini-checks when I see a new email than doing one fell-swoop…

But yes, I'm somewhat abiding the suggestions. I really appreciated them, too. Adam seems to be a master on dos/don'ts of the internet

By: David

David — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:38:41 +0000

Great advice Adam. And the reason I say it’s great advice and trust it is because I’ve done it three times within the past year. I’ve “re-branded” myself once and so far it’s paying off slowly, but it is a lot of work and takes a lot of my time. So sometimes I’ll give prior notice and announce that I am taking an iBreak or Blogatical (think sabbatical). Curious, did Ben take your advice?

By: lakelady

lakelady — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 20:49:00 +0000

some good ideas….but I disagree with a few points.

Do edit your blog posts. Not doing so is just plain lazy and builds bad writing habits. If all your blog is is vomiting on paper then you won’t be able to build a decent following. Your blog is a public statement of who you are and editing shows that you care about your audience. Also, while editing may take more time at first the more you do it the faster it will go.

Keeping emails to 5 sentences may be fine for most but not necessarily all replies. Sometimes it’s useful and/or necessary to provide more information. So generally I’d just say don’t make this one a hard and fast rule but use longer replies judiciously.