This is the anniversary of my goal to post daily. Yes, I have been posting daily for the past 3 years, and I will go on as long as I can.
3 years of daily posting!
Category: Blogging
Different
by Serge ‘Mage’ Cote
— To feel the power of this text, place yourself in the “I” 🙂 —
I need to change myself so my life change.
Everything comes from the inside.
I have the power to change myself.
I stop asking to be saved, I do something about it.
I take responsibility for my life.
I do what I know I can do. I stop procrastinating.
I want more, so I become more.
In you…
by Serge ‘Mage’ Cote
Faith is the ability to see things that yet exist.
Believe in yourself.
How can anyone believe in you if you don’t believe in yourself first?
Take action to reach what you believe you can become.
Step up and do what you know you need to do.
Writing secret
by Serge ‘Mage’ Cote
What is the secret to writing?
It’s quite simple.
It’s writing.
Yes, if you want to be a good writer, you need to write and write. You can learn on and on about how to write, but until you really do it, you are just a wanna be.
The best way is to do and learn as you go along actually writing.
You’ll become better and better if you have the open mind to learn. Find some way to test your writing on different peoples so you can learn what works and what don’t.
One of the way to learn is to read a lot of books in the style that you want to use.
You can use different style and mix them as you see fit. It’s all about you feeling good about your work. Then, you test it again and again. Have an open mind to the comment. Find what bring those comments and modify your text so it will become more appreciated.
Instead of reading a lot of books on how to write, read lots of books in the style that you want to use. Then write and write.
There’s no shortcut to become a great writer. You’ll have to write a lot before you get the chance to get publish.
Keep working on and keep submitting your work.
Writing good
There is something wonderful about writing a blog.
Whatever message you want to send, it will be interpreted differently by others. As soon as you send your text, you can’t control how it will be interpreted.
As for any quotes, people will see what they need to see in them. Or they just don’t see anything at all.
Stop worrying about what others will think of your text. As long as you feel good about your text, it should be ok.
People will use what they need from your text.
I just hope that my post will bring you something good.
Publish
When do we know that it’s good enough to publish?
- When there’s no spelling mistakes left.
- When the text is telling all that is needed. This means, you find someone to read your book and tell you if they understood what it’s all about.
- When you feel that you have done your best.
When you reach the point where you feel that you have done your best, the next step is to submit it.
Remember, when you submit, you put your book into the hands of someone else. They’ll read it and choose if this book would be a good investment. This doesn’t mean your book is not worth publishing, it just means that this person doesn’t want to take a risk on it.
All you need to do, is find someone who will be ready to take a risk with your book.
Don’t give up!
“If you think you have an interesting story, you probably do. All it takes is a good writer to bring forward the interest, the emotions and the characters – to bring it to life.”
– David Leonhardt
How I choose the quotes
How do I choose the quotes I’m using in my post?
My first source for my quotes is the internet. I like to search for quotes that goes along with what I’m talking about.
I choose quotes for what they say. I don’t care much about who said it.
For me, a good quote should be less than 25 words long and should be easy to understand. In my opinion, if you can’t resume your reflection in less than 25 words, it means that it still need to be worked on.
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
When I don’t find anything good to put in my text, I don’t put any. I want the quotes to support my post.
I would like someday to create a web site where any member would have the opportunity to propose a reflection. It would not be about being famous, but about good reflection. Those quotes would be available online for free with the author associated with it.
Good Design
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Some studies show that “ease of use” is the winning factor on an ecommerce site.
Build It for Speed – It’s a fact of modern life – people are in a hurry. This means that you have between 10 and 30 seconds to capture your potential customer’s attention. To minimize your load time, keep graphics small. Compress them where possible.
Target your Market – Know who your market is and make certain that your site caters to their needs. It is critical that your site reflect the values of your potential customers. Is your market mostly business professionals? If so, the site must be clean and professional. Is your product aimed mostly at teenagers and young adults? Then your site could be more informal and relaxed. The key here is to know your market and build the site to their preferences.
Focus the Site – Make certain your website is focused on a primary goal: selling your product or service. A site offering many unrelated products is not necessarily unfocused, but this is often the case. If your business does offer many products, dedicate a unique page for each instead of trying
to sell them all from one page.
Credibility Is Crucial – The most professionally designed website won’t sell if your customers don’t believe in you. A clear privacy statement is one way to build your credibility. Provide a prominent link to your privacy statement from every page on the site as well as from any location that you are asking your visitors for personal information. Provide legitimate contact information online.
Navigation should be simple – Make site navigation easy and intuitive. Simple and smooth navigation adds to the convenience of the visitors. Add powerful search and catalogue features. Visitors usually don’t have the patience to navigate through the whole website to find what they are looking for.
Consistency is the key – Make sure the site is consistent in look, feel and design. Nothing is more jarring and disturbing to a customer than feeling as if they have just gone to another site. Keep colors and themes constant throughout your website.
Make your website interactive and personalized – Add feedback forms as well as email forms that allow your prospective customers to ask you any questions they might have pertaining to a product. Personalization of your website is another key element that can build your visitor’s trust and increase your sales.
Content is King – Good content sells a product. Ask yourself the following questions. Does your copy convey the message you wish to get across to your visitors? Is it compelling? Does it lead your visitor through the sales process? Have others review, critique and edit your copy to insure it is delivering the intended message. Always double check your spelling and grammar.
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Selling is mostly knowledge and some creativity. If you build a web site to sell your product, you should take each of those steps and verify if you’re getting them out there. A disturbing web site will always loose customer, keep it simple and fast to learn where the user can get what ever he wants. Use the simpler word to identify each of your pages.
Start to bring people as soon as you can. This mean, that you need to make it as good as you can, in the shortest time you can. Don’t wait too long to get it out there. You don’t want someone else to do it before you.
There are always things that can be upgraded. You’ll have to work on your website to keep it up to date.
The design can be a good way to upgrade your website. A new logo could upgrade the look of your business with your web site.
Blog comment
One of the most common tips, to build the traffic on a blog, is to leave comments on others people blog.
I’m an old surfer and marketer. In my early years, the ‘Golden book’ was common on most of the personal web site online. I was leaving a nice little text about the site with a little invite to visit mine at the end. In that time, it was working with an average of 30% to 40% of people visiting my own web site from that text. Now, there’s less and less personal web site. Most people will go for a blog instead of a web site.
It’s mostly the same that we do with post. With the difference that we need to leave a comment related to the subject of the post. This means that you need to read and understand the post first. Then that you need to create a comment that is as good as you can. It takes times and energy to do so.
If I could give you an advice, don’t leave a comment that looks like “Great post”, “Interesting subject” or “I agree with you”. Doing so isn’t going to bring any new people to your blog. You need to create something good with your comment.
View your comment as a promo tool for your blog. It has to be as good as your blog. It also needs to be short. A comment with more than 10 lines will only be read by the author of the blog you wrote on. Yes, you want the author to read your comment, but you also want the visitor to that blog to read it.
Remember, when you leave a comment, it’s more than a comment; it’s an ad to yourself and your blog.
Use the good
Share what you know. Don’t use the text of someone else.
You can’t be good in everything, but you can sure be good in a few ones.
Use the good to make some good post.
“Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.”
– Aesop
There’s no need for you to go outside of your comfort zone. But sometimes, you could expand your knowledge and develop a larger zone.
Learning is the fountain of youth.
From Mage Mind 