5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School. 5 Ways to Give Yourself an Education That Kicks the Crap Out of the One You Got in School One of the biggest reasons that people are denied the privilege of education is because they can’t afford it.
However, today we live in a world where knowledge and information are at our finger tips like never before. Technology has leveled the playing field so that anybody with an interest and an internet connection can receive a world class education. Case Study: How A New Blog Achieved 100% growth in 2 Months. This is a guest post by Srinivas Rao, the editor in Chief of Flightser . He writes about personal development at The Skool of Life and is the host of BlogcastFM, a podcast to help you take your blog to the next level. Two months ago the CEO of our company asked me to take the lead on launching and growing a brand new travel blog. Flightster, is currently functioning only as a blog and will eventually become a fully functional flight booking engine within the next several months.
14 Bloggers Share 14 Awesome Tips For Using Google+ This is a guestpost by Srinivas Rao from The Skool of Life.
I’ve been spending quite a bit of time on Google Plus and I’m finding that the quality of conversation with content creators is significantly higher there. So I decided to put that theory to the test and ask some bloggers to share their best tips to on using Google Plus. Here is a list of 14 bloggers (including myself) that are rocking the world of Google+ to connect and engage with new people, expand their reach and create more content. And they share their tips with you: 1. I’ve just recently included my Google+ profile link in the FIRST email my newsletter subscribers receive from me after opting-in… I’ve seen a dramatic jump in the number of people adding me to their circles. 2.
From time to time, especially when I notice a lot of new people added me to their circles, I will post a message asking them to introduce themselves so we can connect. 3. 4. Like any other social network, the goal should come before the action. How to Maintain Composure in the Face of Adversity. The other morning I hit a major setback on something big that I’ve been working on.
When I learned about it my immediate impulse was to panic. That was followed by anxiety, and it wasn’t long before I found myself in somewhat of a frenzy. Fortunately the day ended and eventually I fell asleep. When I woke up the next day I realized just how useless all of that had been. Five steps to re-invent your social media business networking. By Srinivas Rao, Contributing {grow} Columnist Chances are you’ve never heard of Oliver Starr.
But you’ve probably heard of many of the people below: This may seem odd to you, but Oliver, a successful blogger and Michael Arrington’s first employee at Tech Crunch, had never heard of these people when I mentioned their names. The only reason I learned who he was is because he’s the product evangelist for Pearltrees, a tool for organizing information that I really love. My interaction with Oliver was eye-opening because I just assumed that if you’re in “the biz” you would have heard of most of these folks. It made me realize just how narrow our view of the web is. A few weeks ago Mark Schaefer wrote about his observation that there is nothing new in blogging. Innovation and new ideas can’t diffuse throughout the social web when experts spend all their time talking to experts. 1. Every few months I literally unsubscribe from nearly every blog I read. 2. 3.
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Breathtaking Content. By Srinivas Rao, Contributing {grow} Columnist Over the last two years I’ve read more books than I’ve read in my entire life.
But there’s a slight problem with my reading. Every single book falls into one of these categories: Marketing/BusinessSelf Help/PsychologyEntrepreneurship/Careers There has been no fiction, not a single memoir, or any book that falls outside of my field. In the last several weeks I’ve heard two best-selling authors emphasize the importance of reading books over blogs. A Multidisciplinary Approach to Creating Content In his latest book, Mastery , Robert Greene studies masters from multiple fields (athletes, entrepreneurs, pilots, artists and more). How to Turn a Small Blog Audience into Small Army. By Srinivas Rao, Contributing {grow} Columnist Every single day we focus on how to get more traffic to our blogs, increase our conversion rates, and sell more.
The result is an obsession with raising our Klout scores, increasing the number of followers we have on Twitter and inflating every metric we can in hopes that we’ll become the next … insert famous blogger of your choice. Let’s get real for a moment. Why 150 Followers Is All You Really Need.