Archive for October, 2007
It’s Been a Hard Week to Appreciate
This past Tuesday I came home from lunch to discover my apartment had been broken into. One of the few things they took was my new MacBook Pro.
But this week hasn’t been just rough on me. Hundreds of homes have been destroyed in California wildfires. And many bloggers have lost a reliable [...]
What Is a Professional Blogger?
What makes a blogger professional? There are very few variables that many consider today in order to qualify someone, or themselves, as being part of the professional bloggers’ community. I once said on my site that you can be professional in 5 ways in almost any situation, anywhere, regardless of any profession involved, or whether [...]
How Your Readers Can Make You a Shiny Day
Even the most optimistic people can sometimes have a bad day, when everything seems to be tearing apart, when nobody loves them or cares for them, when everything they try to do ends up in error and misery.
Have you ever experienced such a day? How did you get rid of that depressive spirit?
Like in offline [...]
Does the Intention Behind Appreciation Really Matter?
I am a firm believer that a lot of reader appreciation techniques can translate directly from the offline world.
As food for thought, I thought I’d present some offline examples of when I was trying to use appreciation techniques and my intentions were questioned. As a result, I never visited the places again.
Getting a Meal
When [...]
What Is Reader Appreciation? Disclosing Monetary Interests
Quick: how many professional bloggers do you know who talk openly and usually about how they blog in order to make money, and how they write blog posts to attract readers so they cane make money? One of the common things you see on a lot of self-proclaimed professional blogs is the absence of honest [...]
