Blogging: Make Your Posts Speak!
Blogging is a full-time effort for me. I have a couple of websites, a membership site, and do you know where I put my major focus? Yep. This blog. I use it to connect with the people in my niche and it's — for all intents and purposes — my main website. My blog is where I send people nine times out of ten because here, they can get to know me, what I'm up to, and what's important to me. I get to give information that helps people and for me, that's really what it's all about.
Tellman always says that if you help people, the money comes. He's right in that, and I've paid close attention to his teaching for wow! about six years now. I mean, I followed Tellman before I ever knew him personally. He was just so sincere and caring that I liked the person he was long before I found success from what I learned from him.
So, I like to follow the path. Blogging4Boomers is my membership site, and it's ridiculously inexpensive. I mean for $97 a year, you get all that's inside and me, twice a month. In fact, I'm doing a webinar for my folks tonight, as I've done every single month for the past two and a half years. Those are really fun for me, and the regular folks that come time after time (my pal Edward Moore has missed maybe one in all that time) have really become friends, not just customers.
In fact, Blogging4Boomers is going away soon. I'm opening a brand new site that will absorb it, but that's not what I want you to know about today.
When I'm creating a product, it's important to me that everyone's learning modalities are addressed. I mean, some of us like to read. (Oh, that's me… big reader.) Some folks like to watch videos. (Well… I like that, too.) And still some like to listen. That's not so good for me because I can't "see" anything. But some folks just happen to love that. Kyle Battis, our marketing and affiliate manager, is one and Tellman, too.
So, why I'm here is to give you a little tip that I learned from a ListBuilding Club member, Kevin Levine. He suggested that I check out this site called "Odigo," which is free and it takes your blog posts — even your feed — and turns them into posts you can hear. How cool is that? You'll notice a little icon at the top of this post that says, "Listen."
Please don't be concerned about doing this just yet. I only signed up today, so not all of my blog has been converted. I have like 628 posts, so…
It will probably work more quickly for you, if your blog isn't as huge as this one. I'm giving it a while, but go over to Odigo and check out the demo. It's pretty amazing, and it gives your visitors a way to learn without reading. Pretty neat, I'd have to say! You won't hear my voice, of course, but you will hear what I've written and though it does sound remotely like a computer, it's not too bad.
Just a heads up, if you'd like to consider it. I think it's pretty cool.
