All my life I’ve been pretty much a left brain thinker and have to come to realize that a common thread I really enjoy out of my past vocations, past blogs, and past businesses has been dealing with people. This is pretty much a right brain thing and I’ve chosen to focus toward that direction. I’m leaving most of the technical know how and training I provide to my clients and business partners. I’ve given away a lot of things over the last year including a 215 page book on traffic generating strategies.

The introspection I’ve had over the last year has led me to discover the real passion I have and that’s working with people, whether that be with my business partners or advising and consulting with new people I meet. That shouldn’t change any of my established relationships I have with people, including you, it’s just my focus is going to be on more right brained thinking arena. Since it is something I do enjoy writing more about, my content should be much more frequent and also relevant to everyone.

When I was writing about all the technical things I did, it got to be a chore that reminded me of my old Information Technology jobs. I would rather talk about observations and thoughts of people and other things that I find interesting, educational, and most importantly, humorous. So you will find that my new emphasis and focus is going to be on personal and business development, life and work balance, nutrition and exercise, and humor.

Again thank you for supporting me.

Once you have put your face and your voice out there, you may as well go the whole hog and give people your telephone number. This is one of those situations when you may wish you had thought it through a bit better – but adding a telephone number to your site can really make people feel at ease. Whilst they may email you with any questions, or use Skype, they will rarely call you anyway. But giving people that option is awesome, and will reap rewards in the long term. You do not have to be a salesman, just a person.

Besides the above methods, one amazing concept that some bloggers forget about, is a newsletter system. Newsletters enable you to contact the people that are putting money in your pocket, so it is always worthwhile having. You can give people anything for free so that they decide to sign up to your newsletter, just make sure they sign up! One of the oldest sayings in the IM industry is “the money is in the list!”. It is a saying for a reason…

You need to find the blogs that are updated regularly, and you can do this by searching Google for a related search term to your blog, and then ensuring you are limiting to blogs that have been updated in the last few weeks (in the left sidebar on Google search results). Find a good quality blog that has regular and not sporadic content being posted. Three to four  times per week is ideal. This suggests that the blogger is a professional, and they value fresh content.

The best way to approach this deal is straight out asking them to write an article on your blog as a guest, and giving them the opportunity to add a backlink right at the end. You can play on the fact that you would rather an informed and professional article on the subject matter than to plagiarize their great work.

You will usually get a few hits per week at this. People are very willing to give up a few minutes of their time to write a 300 word post on something they write about every day. They will probably rehash one of their older posts – which is fine, because its going to be great new content on YOUR blog.

For a while now, many top bloggers have used a plugin called Top Commentators, which is a widget that sits in the sidebar of a site. It sits on every page, however, so this is immediately powerful for the links that are in that Top Commentators widget. The prerequisite to get into that box is you must be making valid and worthwhile comments on the blog, and you should also be in the post count of the top 10 or 15 people. So if the number 10 spot has 5 posts, you need to write 5 posts that week/month – depending on how the blog operates.

You can use different anchor texts for different blogs. You can put your name, or your website name – the blogs do not care, as long as you are adding valuable and fresh content to their blogs. This is not spam – you are collaborating with the owner of the site – and they welcome you with open arms – and even throw in an awesome backlink to boot.

To find these cool blogs that allow you to advertise on their home page, you simply need to go to Google, and type in the following:

allintext: “Top Commentators” “Powered by WordPress “

This will throw up enough blogs for you to go through, and remember – actually pick blogs you want to comment on!

It will save you a TON of time! I mean it. But first you have to set it up first. The solution exists using a site called RSSMix.com

This site will allow you to aggregate several feeds into one. Why several feeds? Well not all of our content should be created only for our blogs. Branching out to Ezine articles, Hub Pages, Squidoo, Yourtube, and others can reap a huge return in regards to SEO for your main blog site. See my blog post called “Multi-Purpose Your Content” that can be found at: http://www.chriskilber.com/multi-purpose-your-content/

So collect the feeds from the places you now have content that you want to have others syndicate. Even if you have just one, your blog, still do this. It will allow you to add to it later once you start branching out.

I have two videos that I threw together that outlines the concept. It shows how I created a link (HTML or XML) that shows in chronological order, newest to oldest, your content regardless of where you created it, as long as it’s a part of your master feed.

Watch these in succession and then read on…

http://screencast.com/t/Yzk3OGNiND
http://screencast.com/t/ZDMxNmU2Y2Mt

We then can make everyone’s content one simple click away. Here’s and example of mine: http://www.rssmix.com/u/997020/

Even beyond that, Here’s where we can really CRUSH IT! How about providing that feed to over 300 RSS and Site submission sites? It would plaster your content all over the net. It may require your tribe buying some submission software but really split between you all should be minimal.

And EVEN more CRUSHING…

How about feeding the feeds to your ping.fm account via twitter feed? Clicking your Onlywire button for everything you find on it.

Sorry NOT DONE YET… Go back and get all of your tribe members XML Feed links, One master each, and create one master RSS Feed for that. Feed that to the 300 RSS and Submission sites, to each one of your Ping.fm accounts. Then take the feeds out of each social media site where you can find an RSS feed and submit those.

If I can receive over 1/2 million links to my blog, imagine what will happen when you also get 6-10 others doing the same thing…

Enjoy CRUSHERS!!!

Chris Kilber
Home of 101 Traffic Generating Strategies

While most phones allow you to read existing Blogs remember they now have grown larger and larger in their footprint and it will require much more bandwidth to even open them. This is because most Blogs have a slew of plugins. So what is the answer?

Well as ironic as it may seem it will take a plugin. It’s called WordPress Mobile Pack. It includes a mobile switcher to select themes based on the type of user that is visiting the site, a selection of mobile themes, extra widgets, device adaptation and a mobile administration panel to allow users to edit the site or write new posts when out and about.

Now you can tout you Blog as mobile ready.

The plugin can be found at

Link: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wordpress-mobilepack/
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It specifically will do the following:
1. Retrieve one of the last three posts from one of your syndication partners and display it.
2. Create back-links to those blogs.
3. Provide syndication of your partners blogs inside of your blog.
4. Promote relationships with other bloggers.
5. Open the avenues to your partners within your site.
6. Demonstrate to your readers that you are a part of a larger community promoting the same ideas and are open to showing your readers that there are other places they can receive value.

I hope you enjoy!

http://tribeware.info/plugin-tribeware-singlerss/

One of the common threads I see is that people are realizing that they need to and want to reach beyond their capabilities and learn about different ways of doing things. Others are sharing their passions in very graphic detail and taking risks at exposing their feelings. Now I know this may be harder for the guys, but I’m amazed at the quality of writing I see. I sometimes tend to approach it in too clinical a fashion and don’t pour enough of ME into them as much as I would like, or should. I had commented over on another site about some new people wanting everything to be perfect. There are a lot who dread having to create content everyday. In a previous post I spoke that no matter the topic, people are interested in YOUR perspective. They want to know what YOU think and why. They want to know how YOU arrived at that perspective. They are looking for someone like themselves. So if your looking at creating content that is perfect just remember, when you write from the heart, it is perfect and if your writing is from the heart, then you will not disappoint.

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Linda Cronin

So I thought I was going through the ACTIONS that I could some-how say was helping to grow my business, my dreams and goals, and my goal of total freedom. I didn’t get the results I expected. What I wasn’t doing was using focused ACTION. One thing I recommend you do if you already haven’t is read the book by Tim Ferris called “The Four Hour Work Week”. It’s hard to believe that he only spends that little amount of time working a week but when you read, he reveals the ways he keeps his time organized, focused, efficient, and prioritized. It doesn’t happen over night. But there are ways you can learn to stay focused. Number one has got to be email. Learn how to implement the auto-responder feature in your email. This in itself will help prioritize your daily activities. Number two, is browsing and surfing. Keep maybe a dictionary and whatever software your using open. Nothing more. Turn your cell phone off. You can always call back. A quiet place where you can focus uninterrupted will put your workplace environment all together.

Now that you are situated in a good spot, you need to have a goal for what you want to accomplish. Work on it till your done. I’m not going to go into the details of goal setting, I’m sure you know all about it. I will say though, is you need to have it be in a realistic bite sized chunk of your total goal. The closer you can actually break apart your tasks the more manageable they will become.

Here is an “Inner Circle” secret. The more time you spend doing what you planned and the more you plan, the more successful you will be. So we’ve come full circle here. We know we need to take ACTION. Focused ACTION makes you much more efficient.

I’ll leave you with this my friend. Focused ACTION is much better than just ACTION and even bad ACTION is better than no ACTION. The bottom line, is you have to simply be like the Nike brand says, DO IT.

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