All of us beginning bloggers shoud take a few notes from the King of Content, Brian Clark. He founded one of the most powerful blogs on copywriting called, CopyBlogger.  On that site, Brian has continuous guest bloggers who share with with their readers tips, tricks and techniques on how to write more impactful content to grow our audiences.

Writing to Make You Famous

If you ever thought that writing would never make you famous, just take a look at what Brian Has been able to accomplish with three years and a blog.

• The Guardian named Copyblogger one of the world’s 50 most powerful blogs.
• Advertising Age ranks Copyblogger as a top 5 blog about marketing.
• Technorati says Copyblogger is one of the most popular blogs in the world, and a top 20 favorite among readers.
• The editors of Performancing honored Copyblogger founder and editor Brian Clark by naming him the most influential blogger of 2007, and he came in at number 30 among the 50 most influential bloggers compiled by top blogger Leo Babauta.

Brian Clark has been featured in the following books:

• Meatball Sundae by Seth Godin.
• The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott.
• Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink.
• Gravitational Marketing by Jimmy Vee and Travis Miller.
• Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields.

(source: Copyblogger.com)

Helpings Others Build a Successful Online Business

On top of Brian’s success in both offline and online businesses, he has recently created a new platform called Teaching Sells, in which Brian has created an online learning center where any individual can learn how to build a successful business by teaching others with an online membership web site.

As one of the early members, I can say that this program has opened my eyes even more to the possibilities of building a successful business on the web!

If you haven’t heard of Chris Brogan, you obviously haven’t spent much time in the world of social media. Chris has sort of become an industry rockstar, if we’re all accepting that “social media” has become its own industry.  As Chris states, he’s been blogging since it was called “journaling” (for over 10 years) and now is one of the most sought after speakers, coaches, and consultants who help businesses and organizations use social media to develop connections and build relationships that translates into channels to provide value.

A Different View of Social Media

Funny enough, I haven’t even personally met Chris.  I’ve just been a relatively recent fan who: follows his RSS feed, his Twitter feed, his Facebook profile, his FriendFeed, reads his blog daily, and have recently bought his first book called Trust Agents.

Okay, so I sound a little obsessed here.  Honestly, it’s because I found someone that thinks a lot along the same lines that I do and that always intrigues me.  He see’s the “human-side” to everything, including how we interact online, and tries to figure out the answer to the question “why?”  I, very much, take that same approach.  The difference is that I sometimes feel Chris is about 10 steps ahead of me so I read his work and follow him to catch up!  He also just brings a whole new level of thinking to my own business and how I build a community around it, myself, and things I’m passionate about! He’s also a person of integrity, which I’m always attracted to and he lives what he preaches.

A Proclaimed “Expert”… with Proof that it Works!

Need an example, if you looked back over the past two years you would see how Chris and his co-author Julien Smith used social media to connect with people who would be interested in the book they were writing. They then built a community around the book by sharing with their followers the progress of the book as they were writing it. During that time they asked their community engaging questions and starting discussions that continued to give them further insights and ideas for the concepts that would become part of the book while promoting its release all at the same time. By the end, they had used social media and their community to pump up its release… and it came out #1 in three categories on Amazon.com when it was released!

Read the book… the concepts they used to promote it is exactly what they talk about in the book. Talk about putting your money/effort where you mouth is!

I’ll admit, I’m a Pamela Slim fan.  Why? Because I got to meet her personally.  I got to see that what she states on her blog Escape from Cublic Nation and in her Twitter Feed (@pamslim) and everywhere else I have read about her is exactly what she lives day in and day out. I respect and am attracted to that in entrepreneurs. On top of that, I love seeing where she has come in her professional career and where she has gotten.

Consider her your “recovering entrepreneur.”  I believe we were all born with the ability and desire in so many ways to create our own destinies, but some of us get caught up in a false belief that we have to work for someone else to succeed rather than being able to make it on our own. Pamela is that very person who started there, but learned to break away. After leaving her wonderful corporate job at Barclay’s Global Investors, she found herself in what is commonly the position of most corporate robots turned entrepreneurs, an outsourced contractor to those same large corporations! But Pamela was able to convert those experiences into a wonderful consulting practice called Ganas Consulting.  She has shown how true passion and effort can lead you to create something that not only supports you financially but fulfills you emotionally, mentally, physically, and for some of us spiritually!

What I really love is that the way she speaks, writes, coaches, and interacts is consistent with who she really is as a person.  Remember that entrepreneurs!  Stay true to yourself and your passions, and most of your business will come naturally to you. That is… MOST of your business!

Check out more about Pamela Slim at her blog Escape from Cubicle Nation