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Archive for the ‘From The Trenches’ Category

The Indulging, Obligatory Reflection of 2011

There has been a trend on this blog over the past couple of years. I get to the end of the year, burnt out, and talk about what I’ve learned over the previous 10 or so months. These posts have been somewhat depressive as I’ve been battling

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Launch Watch – The Accidental Success Story

I created Launch Watch on a whim. I’d just gotten a phone call saying my cat had a 50% chance of pulling through an operation. I couldn’t stop crying so bought the domain name, migrated some content over and started working on it. Yesterday I hit 1000

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How I Kicked Arse in 2010.

Over the past year I’ve written a number of ‘woe is me’ posts. Examples are 14 Things You Don’t Know About Me and How I screwed Up My Blog in 2009. I’m glad I did. Allowing me to get certain shit out there allowed me to push

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Allison's Guide to Wood Chipper Networking

Normally I don’t allow guest posts. This is my safe little place online where I can be my quirky self without fear or judgement. Then I got an email from Alli Boyer. See, we both suffer from social anxiety. We both made a bucketload of mistakes at

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Jade’s Jetlagged Recap of Blogworld

Back. In Australia. I swear – I’m NEVER going overseas again without stocking up on Australian food beforehand. I’ve been home for 24 hours and my mind is full of blogworld awesomeness. This post is going to be less of a ‘lessons learned’ and more of a

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Networking to the Next Level: How I'm Going to BlogWorld.

Some of you guys know that two months ago, Dave Navarro asked me if I’d be his networking assistant. As you’d expect, I was all ‘oh noes I can’t do that.’ Huzzah for excessive modesty. This has led to a lot of questions – some of which

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Behind The Scenes: 50 Netsetters Post

Late last week I wrote a post as part of The Netsetter relaunch called 50 Netsetters You Should Know About. This was a paid project for Envato but it was so much fun. For me, it was an experiment that I felt would pay off and it

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Lessons from a failed launch

I may be *this* close to hyperventilating. I just checked our stats, and since its release we have sold 40 copies of the e-course. In total, $880 USD. I find this hilarious. We “launched” on May 8th and it flopped in just about every way possible. It

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From the trenches: Newsletter edition

We’ve officially had the Blog Networking Tips newsletter for a month. It has been a huge learning curve but, surprisingly, it has also been really fun. We’ve reached 72 subscribers with very little promotion. This is awesome for someone that doesn’t have an incentive or pop up.

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A Day in the Life of a Sneezer

Or, Why I spent 160 dollars thanks to a dog So, last night I was at the Social Media Club Melbourne event. (Side note – YAY for getting a shout out from the Problogger himself, even if it thoroughly embarrasses you.) After the panel ended, I *may*

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