I am not a prophet nor the son of a prophet. (See Amos 7:14) But every now and then I get a glimpse into the future.

Today, maybe I saw a bit of the days to come at CalHigh in San Ramon, CA – San Ramon Valley Unified School District: California High.

I was invited to speak to a group of future entrepreneurs, headed up by Zahra Siddique. My assignment to let the young people know about how I do the blogging thing and how it pays my bills.

But if you ask me, I want to know how 14-year old Zahra was able to get 40 some people all in a room at the same time, quiet (while eating their lunches) and attentive?

Now THAT’s leadership. Well done, Zahra. Seriously, can you teach me how you did that?

I spent more time in the car driving to and from San Ramon from my home in Sunnyvale but the 20 minutes of jumping up and down (it’s how I talk – can’t help it) and the 10 minutes of Q & A that followed made the trip well worth it. Read the rest of this entry »

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Yesterday I wrote Introduction to Blogging – Key #3 of 4 to be successful.

Today I will follow up with Key #3.

Any guesses about what will be coming up tomorrow?

Key # 4 of 4 to be successful at blogging.

Key # 4

Quality.

The writing/content still has to be good.

Sure enough, you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time.

The search algorithms of the Googles and the Yahoos can determine if a blogger is just copying and pasting material from elsewhere or putting up something original.

Write good stuff, do it regularly, for a long time, and little by little, your blog will be noticed.

Add Read the rest of this entry »

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