Any of this sound familiar?
This post is for anyone who knows they’ve got what it takes to be a content superstar — but just can’t find that tipping point.
You are relentless. Thorough. Creative. Curious. You can write most people under the table. You read like mad and aren’t afraid to catch hell.
You are a self-starter, and you work hard. In fact, that hard work has paid off.
You’ve built up a nice little audience for your blog. You get a steady stream of visitors to your site every day, some meaningful comments with each post you publish, and occasionally someone emails to tell you how much they love your writing.
This summer, the world lost one of its most highly effective teachers. Stephen Covey died on July 16, 2012, age 79.
Covey will be remembered as a transformative thinker on leadership and personal effectiveness. His book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is, and will continue to be, one of the greatest instruction manuals for personal productivity and growth ever written.
Today’s post is a respectful homage to his most lasting legacy — those 7 habits.
And since we focus on WordPress around here, that’s what we’ll apply them to.
“Our greatest strengths can also be our greatest weaknesses.”
Have you heard/read this quote?
Curious about it, I spent some time searching online for its author. After painstakingly sifting through a morass of websites — and remembering that the web’s greatest strength (so much information!) can also be its greatest weakness (so much information!) — I finally settled on a surprising answer:
No one said it. The closest thing I could find that’s attributed to a single person, is the following line from Friedrich Nietzsche:
Through superior flexibility and excellent quality, WordPress shed the label of mere “blogging” software long ago.
It’s become an indispensible content publishing platform for millions of real businesses and talented writers and thinkers across the web.
Chances are, it’s even powering your website, which makes the infographic you’ll find below indispensible.
If you’re running your site on WordPress there’s a chance you’re running into certain errors that can make you look, well, just a little bit silly.
For serious WordPress publishers with specific online business objectives, there is no more critical component to your website’s long-term value than its search engine rankings.
Brian Clark reiterated this just a few days ago when announced the launch of Scribe 4.0:
“… we consider targeted search engine traffic the most valuable site visitors you can get when it comes to meeting business objectives.”