Our Best Tips and Advice from 2011
Tips and advice seem to be the Internet’s most hotly traded commodity. Using my own experience but also tons of crowdsourcing techniques, I try to offer up tips, mostly in regards to social media and...
View ArticleOur 10 Favorite Videos of 2011
The year is wrapping up and while I posted Our 10 Funniest Videos of 2011, I also wanted to post our favorite non-funny yet really interesting, videos. Here they are. 1. A tour of an IndyCar steering...
View ArticleBest Advice on Starting a Business
Here’s one of the videos I produced at the 2012 Lean Startup Conference where I was reporting for New Relic. Original post can be found on the New Relic blog. If you’ve ever tried to start a business...
View Article20 Pieces of Business Advice You Should Ignore
While we do our best to remember really good business advice others bestow upon us, we sadly can’t unhear the horrible clichéd advice that permeates our business culture. Purely through endless...
View ArticleMore Business Advice You Should Ignore
In April, I wrote an article 20 Pieces of Business Advice You Should Ignore. It was filled with often hackneyed advice that’s touted with very little sense as to the advice receiver’s business. I...
View ArticleThe Wrong (Yet Common) Way to Request a Guest Blog Post
About once a week I will get an email from someone I don’t know asking me if they could offer up, for free, a post for my blog, Spark Minute. They tell me what a big fan they are of my blog and then...
View ArticleOur 19 Secrets to Producing Content as Fast as Possible
In February, I wrote an article Tricks We Use to Produce Content Quickly. Looking back, I realized that there were a lot more tips I should have included, so I’ve rewritten that article with tons of...
View ArticleWhy I’m Annoyed By All “How to Create Great Content” Advice
In a previous article (“The Worst Advice about Content Creation”), I complained that advising people to create “great content” is horrible advice, because it’s never followed up with advice on how to...
View ArticleInsiders’ Guide to Creating Bad Content
All the advice about how to create “good” content is almost consistently useless. That’s because the job of creating media requires a lifetime of training. The secret to creating great content is to...
View ArticleWhat I’ve Learned Running a Content Marketing Business for Eight Years
This Sunday, January 4th, will mark the eighth anniversary of my business, Spark Media Solutions. My original plan was to put up a tepid post that said, “Happy Birthday to US!” but then realized no...
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