Grip long, grip hard. That’s what we’re usually told from the moment we’re old enough to greet someone with a handshake. It doesn’t matter how much success we’ve had or what we’re about to achieve, those few seconds in which we physically connect will reveal more about our character than any letters after our name…
Is social media really complicated or is there a basic foundation that anyone can build upon? In this episode of The Joel Comm Show, I speak with my special guest Lori Ruff, the LinkedIn Diva. A Forbes Top 50 Social Media Influencer, Lori is uniquely qualified to speak on the subject of social media. You’ll…
It’s great to see how Twitter has grown in the time I’ve been using it. But what’s really impressive is the way that people are using it. Sure, there are spammers leaping on hashtags and trying to attract attention but they’re a minority. And they’re easily blocked. For the most part, people are using Twitter…
Twitter looks so easy, doesn’t it? You don’t have to plan and research like you do when you’re writing a blog post. You can write whatever’s on your mind and hit the Update button. Random thoughts make for perfectly good tweets. You don’t have to think about search engine optimization. Tweets do turn up on…
I’ve been talking about social media a lot lately and one of the questions that comes up time and time again is how effective it is. It’s not an easy question to answer. Ask me how effective an AdSense placement is and I can open my AdSense journal, look at the stats and tell you…
I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately. I’ve been from California to New York, to Utah and Seattle, and to Denver more times than I can count. In theory, none of that traveling should be necessary. Twitter, after all, is the ultimate networking tool. I can be sitting anywhere and by firing up Tweetie…
I get asked for joint ventures all the time. A day doesn’t go by without some message landing in my mailbox from someone saying they’ve got a killer product and that I should tell my entire list about it. And each of those days ends with just about all of those emails landing in my…
You’ve probably noticed that some of my websites don’t have any AdSense units at all. Some people certainly have. They find it surprising. After all, I make a living teaching people how to use AdSense. I get fat checks from AdSense every month. I think that AdSense is the greatest money-dispersing invention since the automated…
Want to know the difference between a successful entrepreneur… and an entrepreneur who wants to be successful? It’s really very simple… An entrepreneur acts. An entrepreneur who wants to be successful thinks of acting. But successful entrepreneurs don’t just act. They act at the right speed.
I don’t know where I’d be without joint ventures. I’d still have my AdSense income, which is nice, but I’d certainly be a lot poorer. I’d have fewer friends. And the people who acted on my recommendations would be a lot worse off too. Joint ventures are a vital part of my business. They should…