Sonia Simone is Co-Founder and Chief Content Officer of Rainmaker Digital, which until recently was known as Copyblogger Media. Rainmaker Digital is a highly successful digital commerce company that offers an enormous range of free and paid content, as well as platforms and solutions for digital marketers. In addition to running Rainmaker Digital with co-founder… Continue reading
Tim Paige is the Conversion Educator at LeadPages. As he describes it, his job is to help marketers get better results with their business by building and growing their email lists. He’s also the host of Conversioncast an excellent podcast all about email marketing. You’re a writer, so why should you build an email list? That’s… Continue reading
Back in episode 10, I spoke with Monica Leonelle, the author of Write Better, Faster. In that book she broke down the exact methods she uses to write really fast. That episode has proven to be one of the most popular I’ve published so far. I’ve invited Monica back onto the show because she’s got… Continue reading
I was recently in Hong Kong for a tech conference where I had the chance to meet Matt Mullenweg. For those of you who don’t know who Matt is, Matt took a piece of open source blogging software 12 years ago and started modifying it and improving it, and eventually turned it into WordPress, the… Continue reading
Mark Vanhoenacker is a Senior First Officer for British Airways who flies cross-continental routes on 747s. He writes about flying for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Slate, and other publications. He’s the author of the recent book, Skyfaring: A Journey With a Pilot, which was published by Knopf. The book has received glowing… Continue reading
Shane is the bestselling author of Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success. He’s also the Chief Creative Officer of Contently, a technology company he co-founded in 2010 with the mission to create a better media world. An alumnus of Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, Shane’s writing has appeared in Wired Magazine, The… Continue reading
In 2008, Joanna Penn was a highly paid but terribly unhappy management consultant who felt the pull from her creative side. So she started a blog, a podcast, and then published her first non-fiction book about changing careers. She quickly moved into writing fiction and published her first novel a year later. In 2011, she… Continue reading
Kevin Kruse is a New York Times bestselling author who decided to leave his 9-to-5 job this past January so he could devote himself full-time to his passion: writing and publishing books. He’s been blogging about the experience and sharing all of his strategies and even income reports on his blog. And just last week,… Continue reading
One skill I’ve always tried to develop over the past couple of decades as a writer and editor is my ability to tell more compelling stories. Whether I’m writing (or editing) a 100-page research report, a 3,000-word essay, or a 750-word blog post— hooking my readers and telling a story that will keep them interested in… Continue reading
Oliver Burkeman is a journalist with The Guardian where he writes a popular column about self-help culture, productivity and the science of happiness. He’s also the author of an excellent book that has taken the self-help industry by storm: The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking. I spoke with Oliver about his… Continue reading