I've got the secret punks, but do you think I'm gonna tell it to you? Hell no! If I've got the secret to the word's coolest , most traffic generating, most awesome, most digitally-ever-inspiring blog, do you think I'm gonna tell you without a dime? Fark no. I've got a matrix of metrics that you can masticate on for the next millenium and I'm not givin' up until I hear 'CA-CHING', about as loud as the Niagra Friggin' Falls (yes, that's a proper name). So give it up folks. Right here, before I tell ya'll.Now are you ready?
Whoa cowboy. I haven't that happy 'Ca-CHING' yet.
My hand's at my ear... I'm listenin' ...
But I'm not hearin' anything ...
Scroll summore, Cheap Charlie (that's a proper name in Vietnam)
Ok. You've paid enough. At least in time and frustration.
Here's the answer:
W r i t e.
And then write more. Check the top 100 blogs on Technorati or any other rating site and you'll find they all have one thing in common. Bloggage. Quantity. One post a day or more than one post a day. Here at the Wild Wild East Dailies we're slacking a bit and only committed to three posts a week. But that's what I feel I can do comfortably and with a modicum of quality. A better writer might could do more.
But that's the secret. It's called 'writing'.
I recall a quote from the film 'Throw Mamma From The Train' with Danny DiVito and Billy Crystal. Crystal is a writing teacher at a small city college and he has a mantra by which he encourages his class everyday.
"A writer writes", he says. "A writer writes".
That's the secret.
For more on blogs, blogging and bloggers, check here:
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How to Write the Best Blog in the World
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Bright Lights, Big Internet and the WWED
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A Tale of Many Marketing Conferences
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Are the Bloggerati Missing the Market? Asia has Risen,
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