Are You Just Blogging, or Building a Media Empire?
September 21, 2007
Obviously out of the thousands of blogs that are created each day, few have a Goal of becoming a “media empire.” However, for the more determined, dedicated, driven DotComPreneur, the sky is the limit.
Ben Yoskovitz has obviously made a habit of stuyding successful bloggers. In a recent feature, he profiles Wendy Piersall’s EmomsAtHome blog, which has enjoyed continued success and recently expanded to several channels.
http://www.instigatorblog.com/10-steps-to-building-an-online-media-empire/2007/09/14/
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A DotComPreneur’s Multi-Million Dollar Secret to Success
September 18, 2007
“It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.” Pablo Picasso”
There are so many examples of successful DotComPreneurs to read about and learn from.
Make a habit of spending a few minutes each day studying successful people and look for the distinctions or differences that allow one person or company to thrive in any industry, in every economy. Look for examples of the 80/20 rule. Often there are a small handful of simple nuggets that cause the top 20% of any field to outperform, outearn and outlast the other 80% combined.
The single greatest success factor I repeatedly find is PASSION.
For example, during my habitual success study today, I found a great example of a DotComPreneur’s successful journey (during the notorious dot com bomb era), a time when most other Dot Com’s were failing despite spending millions of dollars, going under, never to be heard from again.
The man behind this particular still thriving success was Psychologist, Neil Clark Warren, and one of the distinctions between his Multi Million Dollar internet business and the others that launched at the same time and failed, is that he chose something he was passionate about. That passion was in the field of relationships, more specifically, identifying the distinctions of marriages that survived long term.
The company is one that you have probably heard of and it is called http://www.eharmony.com
Here are som more specifics about how he made it and why it continues to thrive to this day. (it is an older article, however it brilliantly chronicles how Eharmony.com differentiated itself from the other “dating” sites.
http://www.brandchannel.com/careers_profile.asp?cr_id=53
Currently, eharmony.com boasts:
- 2-3 million unique visitors monthly (Comscore)
- 15 million registered users, growing 10,000 to 15,000 daily
- 200-300 million pageviews
- highest priced among the major services, 250-question profile, logged in users
So Eharmony.com is another example of success that follows when you follow your passion.
Are you pursuing yours?
Jill Koenig
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