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Re: Hüpfburgenstadt – Bouncy Castles galore!

beachbettypr — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 12:40:17 -0000

My kids would totally love this festival!

Re: Using current events to win more traffic

beachbettypr — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:54:35 -0000

Great work Mike, way to go! I was actually thinking about you when this occurred. I was wondering how it affected, if at all, the island. And congrats on being named Problogger's 30 bloggers to watch!

Re: How to Rock your Audience (and create an electric emotional connection)

beachbettypr — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 13:45:05 -0000

Hey Mars, I luv it. I'll take a story over bullet points any day.

Re: 10 Motivational Stories of Crushing It [Winners]

beachbettypr — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:05:09 -0000

Wow. Way inspiring! Great work everyone.

Re: Why You Should Position Yourself As An Expert To The Media

beachbettypr — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 12:53:49 -0000

True. And you don't have to even me the biggest expert. You just have to some to "call" you an expert to many other people and suddenly you are the expert.

Re: How to Take your Personal Brand one Level Higher !

beachbettypr — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:18:53 -0000

Oh yeah I have been working on some ideas I just need to get the camera rolling!

Re: How to Take your Personal Brand one Level Higher !

beachbettypr — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 13:52:34 -0000

Hey, Right on Mars. That first video is always the toughest!

Re: Selling skills for bloggers - closing

beachbettypr — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:37:25 -0000

When I was a real estate agent we used the assumptive close. Sometimes clients would rave about a house but agents lose the sale because they never simply asked if they want to make an offer. So when my clients would say mostly positive things about a house--whether it was the first house they saw or the 10th-- I'd simply say "Let's head back to the office and write up an offer." No pressure, no options, and it worked 99 percent of the time.

Re: Project Update: Launch Drama :-)

beachbettypr — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:33:51 -0000

Wow, David sorry to hear about the haters. I guess they are always there though. That's probably my biggest challenge--not letting that stuff get to me.

Just my two cents, I thought the course was awesome! I was a little skeptical the first month, simply because you've got so many people out there trying to sell you ways to make money online. But it really gave me the insight I needed to get my business off the ground. And boy is it ever.

You know you are providing value and there's nothing wrong with charging for what something is worth. You're awesome.

Re: The blog that went from zero to a full time income in one year

beachbettypr — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:29:20 -0000

Hi Mike, definitely I'd be interested in giving it away to my readers. Let me know what I got to do.

Re: Why I unsubscribed from your blog

beachbettypr — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:26:44 -0000

I personally prefer the email than the RSS feed. Because I know I open my email first thing in the morning and the information will be there. There are blogs I like and I'm so busy that I forget to check in but having it delivered to my box is great. It's like "Oh yeah, I like that guy, let's see what he has to say."

But I also like the personal touch. If I do visit the site on a regular basis, I don't want an email that rehashes that. I want a little surprise in the email.

Re: I Will Hug 500 People For A BlogWorld Pass

beachbettypr — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:59:32 -0000

Hey Adria, loved your post. Obviously it was awesome enough for John Chow. Congrats on winning! Hope I can manage to wrangle some tickets, sounds like I can really benefit for my blog and it would probably be worth it. I'll have to find you for my hug if I make it.

Re: Small Powerful Words

beachbettypr — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:58:51 -0000

Thanks Chris for reminding us that one person can't do it all alone. It takes community. That's been a common theme in the blogosphere lately but an important one.

Re: Flying Blind

beachbettypr — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:52:14 -0000

That's wonderful Danny. Good insight. Trust is so important in relationships and we forget that relationships are important in themselves -- even in online businesses. My fav line: "it comes down to mutual trust and faith between people to enable that sharing in the first place." Thanks Danny for that post.

Re: Playground Theory of Social Media

beachbettypr — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 02:36:08 -0000

Sometimes we all need to just play.

Re: Becoming a Better Problogger By Becoming a Better You

beachbettypr — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 01:51:25 -0000

I think it's easier for some people than others. I totally tend to wrap myself up in work and thinking about it all day. I find that I have to literally stop myself and tell myself that work can wait and that I need to enjoy being at the beach or whatever. The other day, I had to deliberately turn off the laptop AND close it and go wrestle on the floor with my toddler. It was so much fun, but if I didn't purposefully stop working I'd have missed out.

Re: The Truth About Star Wars and the Matrix

beachbettypr — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:52:29 -0000

Startabuzz you hit the nail on the head.

Re: The Truth About Star Wars and the Matrix

beachbettypr — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:51:08 -0000

I think Daniel Craig definitely makes a more believable spy. C'mon can you see Roger Moore actually surviving the torture that Craig takes. Brutal. However, Craig does lack that suave, gentleman-ly thing

Re: The Truth About Star Wars and the Matrix

beachbettypr — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:47:12 -0000

OK Totally follow you on the Star Wars thing, seeing as I right now, in my office next to my desk, have a life-size cutout of Han Solo cradling his blaster, and I agree, Matrix, one movie that's it. But, when you initially thought two Indiana Jones movies, c'mon you weren't really thinking of Temple of Doom over Last Crusade, were you? Harrison Ford and Sean Connery had great chemistry!

Re: 10 Smartest Things You Can Do to Promote Your New Blog

beachbettypr — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:19:06 -0000

Thanks David for running this guest blog by Christian. I think he makes a good point -- the process isn't magical -- it takes work. People jump into this thinking there is some special formula, secret or event that will take place and then they magically will have success.

Remembering that this is still a people business is a good point as well.

Re: The Building Blocks of Social Media for Business

beachbettypr — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:33:46 -0000

I admit it, I flinched when you talked about email marketing. This is something that really is a great part of marketing but needs to be used in a more evolved fashion.

Great post. Most of the clients I work with have the mindset of "what's going on, I have my website up, but I'm not getting more clients." Social media is all about the two-way communication and a lot of businesses don't realize the participatory aspect of that.

Re: The Journalist’s Guide to YouTube

beachbettypr — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:05:48 -0000

Great read. I'm curious, in your perspective how are local media sources embracing YouTube? A lot of media in smaller areas see every other media outlet as competition rather than as supplemental. Is that sentiment changing?

Re: Are You at a Blogging Crossroads?

beachbettypr — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:39:42 -0000

Great post, I think everyone comes to that crossroads in their blogging career, but when you are there is seems like a lonely place.

Re: Beware of Free Speech Infringement [Soapbox Talk]

beachbettypr — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:35:54 -0000

You are right on David. This issue hasn't received the attention it needs. More people need to start talking about it before we are blindsided by it.

Re: Adventures in Simplicity

beachbettypr — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:27:58 -0000

I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way. GoDaddy is such a drag to work with and yes, ending up with a ton of windows open is annoying.