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A psychologist named Abraham Maslow devised a 6 step-pyramid now commonly referred to as Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs that fits all people in everything we do. The basic premise is that humans are driven to meet certain needs. When we are homeless, hungry, drowning, choking, etc. we are not thinking about lofty ideas like helping [...]

For a couple of months now, I’ve featured many up and coming (and some well established) bloggers here on DIYB. And there are two reasons for that. First, I’ve been crazy busy with Triberr. While Triberr has given me an amazing reach (over half a million Twitter followers via my tribes), it has left me [...]

The business landscape is crowded with sorcerers of the written word who bend the dark forces to their will. Meanwhile, you sit there, read their stuff and go Hmm. Anybody can write like that. So you launch your favorite word processor, and start tapping away at the keyboard. Wow, you have tons of stuff to [...]

Remember when typing was done by qualified professionals? Remember when writing was a skillset only few got paid for? Remember when dinosaurs roamed the earth? You might find this surprising -I did- but it was the folks who were in charge of printing books, i.e. Printers; who decided which punctuation mark went where. Today, all [...]

Some of you will know the story through a film adaptation of a graphic novel by Frank Miller. 300 is a story based on the Battle of Thermopylae as described by the Greek Historian, Herodotus. According to Herodotus, King Leonidas of Sparta held off a million man Persian army for seven days. Outflanked, Leonidas stood with his [...]

In the age of choc-o-block mediocre blog(s) that no one reads, and the emergence of A list bloggers with book deals, it can be a difficult decision to decide to launch a new blog into an over-saturated market. And harder still if you’re a total tech newbie? A Twitter ignoramus, and wouldn’t know CSS or [...]

My friend Tristan Higbee <- Listen to our interview| from Blogging Bookshelf wrote a post the other day about The Fine Art of Rejecting and Trashing Your Own Blog Posts. You should definitely check it out after reading this post of course. But what about the posts that make the cut.   What about the posts [...]

1. Create an Elevator Pitch for Your Blog  Since we’re not spending money on ink or the printing-press, and we certainly don’t have Editors, we the bloggers tend to go on and on and on…sometimes it’s a challenge to be able to present an idea in a span of 30 seconds. If you were to [...]