Here’s an excerpt from something so good I wish I would have written it myself. You’re a fool if you don’t click over and read the rest. It doesn’t matter if you’re a one-person shop or a multi-billion dollar company, there’s one facet of the Web that puts us all on parity: for ten bu... →

If you’re a writer, or other indie-creative, I think you’ll really enjoying reading the rest of this article here. Awesome stuff. Here’s just a taste: Using the television as their primary tool, very-high-level marketers have managed to create a nation of people who typically: w... →

Michael Steven Gregory, Director of the Southern California Writers’ Conference, provoked this response from me on Facebook today when he started an awesome thread on his wall about the purpose and value of book trailers. This is how I responded: Great conversation, which I̵... →

So consider this: if all those crybabies with the millions of dollars of budgets, well-known brand names, and corporate structures and connections are having trouble connecting — how much harder will it be for you, a solitary, unknown, “brandless” writer? And I mean writer — not some ... →

On Sunday, February 20th, 2011, at 2:40 PM in San Diego, CA, while attending the Southern California Writers’ Conference, I’ll be teaching a class titled: “From Zero to Rockin’ Writers’ Website in One Workshop.” The best writers’ conference. A one month free trial to the best wr... →

There are only two things that really mat­ter if you want to be a bet­ter writer: ONE: Read a lot. TWO: Write a lot. Every­thing else is just iter­a­tion and refine­ment. Peo­ple who claim: “I only write for myself,” aren’t writ­ers. They’re diarists. Authors write for an audi­ence an... →

In every conversation I’ve had with wildly successful entrepreneurs and bloggers about building website traffic, promotional tactics only make up 20% of our talks. So, what is the other 80% of building a popular site about? Building a raving audience online all starts with writing epi... →