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GoodWordEditing.com: Fifteen “Good Word” Bites from SOBcon07

  • Karin H. · 2 years ago
    Hi Mark

    “When I tell people I have published 160 articles about leadership on the web, they say, ‘Ooooh!’ When I tell them I’m a blogger, they say I’m weird.”

    That was Kent Blumberg.

    And oh yes, boy, does the whole of the SOBCon event inspire me!

    Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)
  • Ben Yoskovitz · 2 years ago
    Mark - nice job with the sound bites, those are a great way of remembering the conference.

    “The secret to a soft sell is simple. Eat your own dog food.”
    - that was something I said, sort of...not David Armano, although no question he said more useful stuff than I did.

    I was referencing Mitch Joel's podcast, Six Pixels of Separation, which he uses as a means of eating his own dog food and soft selling.

    Re-reading some of the quotes really brings me back to the entire conference...
  • Eve Nielsen · 2 years ago
    "...Don’t be discouraged by two new visitors a day."

    This is the one I liked. I get between 10-15 visitors on average a day and I felt this was low. Now I feel encouraged. numbers do add up :)
  • Steve Farber · 2 years ago
    Great sound bites! I'm in awe that you were able to capture so many...
  • Marcus · 2 years ago
    Steve, I just take notes. I suppose the greater miracle (though not as great as Dawud) is that I found the time to go back through my notes and make this post.

    And you can see from Ben's comment that I didn't jot everything down perfectly!
  • Lucia Mancuso · 2 years ago
    Hey Mark

    Great list of sounds bites - I captured my own but you caught some I didn't list that I'm going to add to my personal notes. I love sound bites to look back on and gain perspective every once and a while.
  • Wendy Piersall · 2 years ago
    I didn't hug you at SOBCon?! SHAME on ME! :) You are definitely a huggable guy - so next year, I'll have to give you a running hug to make up for my oversight! ;)
  • Craver-VII · 2 years ago
    Ha! Well, I saw Mark last week, and I did give him a hug, but it was not a running hug. That would be weird. Plus, people from Texas don't like to see foks running at them... something about "the Alamo."
  • Wendy Piersall · 2 years ago
    OMG that was very, very funny. :D
  • Rodney_Rumford · 2 years ago
    I really like the "good word bites". It allows people to digest content and have it boiled down to small inspirational packets.

    I suggest that you start a thread on the gems that people took away from the conference on how to become a better blogger/publisher. Ask for 3 submissions from every attendee, boil it down, turn it into a PDF and give it away to the world.

    Or set up a video channel on http://www.videosticky.com and have people webcam a 1 minute recording on their take away and turn it into a video channel. ;)

    Do a press release when you are ready to set it free and watch the blogosphere beat a path to your blog. Email me and i will share more details.

    Cheers

    Rodney Rumford
  • Adam Kayce : Monk At Work · 2 years ago
    Great quotes, Mark — I'm a big quote fan, and these capture some great nuggets of the weekend well.

    And Wendy, what do the rest of us need to do to get a running hug?
  • Dawud Miracle · 2 years ago
    Hey Mark

    I just wrote a post about what David said in #12. I find it one of the turning moments of the event for me. Of course, I can't say that without also considering where I am in the shifting of my business and general - and my need to rebrand.
  • Rory · 2 years ago
    I found #14 to be most heartening. Vernon Lun saying It usually takes 18 months to get a blog up and thriving. Don’t be discouraged by two new visitors a day. Two new clicks per day is 700 people per year. You could be developing relationships with each of them, and that’s a helluva a lot of potential.

    Reading this kind of encouragement really helps to spur me on and keep at it.

    Vernon seems to be doing a great thing at The Good Blogs, but I wouldn't mind reading more of his own stuff if this quote is an example of it.
  • Robert Hruzek · 2 years ago
    Marcus, you did a great job capturing some of those wonderful nuggets from SOBCon. These events make me wish I had digital memory implants - there's just so much good stuff going on!

    In the end, though, it's what we take away and successfully assimilate that counts. That's where your nuggets help, so some of the best things don't get forgotten!

    Great to meet you - and here's to next year!
  • Marcus · 2 years ago
    Wow! I'm completely overwhelmed by all of the wonderful new comments from people I met at SOBcon.

    You know, before I went, I sometimes thought... this blog thing. I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. Now I know I'm not crazy. (Or else all of you are crazy right along with me!)
  • Lucia Mancuso · 2 years ago
    Crazy is good Mark - I've always said it is better than being boring. So if we are all crazy - high fives to us.
  • Karen · 2 years ago
    Thank you for putting this together-- there were so many times during the conference where I wanted to write things down but I didn't dare take my eyes off of the interpreters because I didn't want to miss anything.

    You captured many of the quotes that I wanted to save!
  • watches · 8 months ago