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Sometimes I Feel Like....
Posted 10th November 2010 at 02:46 PM by crushthenet
Tags cookie, digg, focus, overwhelmed, work
What's the point?
I could write the most amazing piece of content ever right here but who would see it? I think that's the hard part about this internet stuff. The old adage "content is KING" is definitely partially true. Content is important and can be used in a multitude of ways. The problem for me is getting the eyeballs. If your content isn't AMAZING or SUPERB or HILARIOUS or SCANDALOUS it won't be at the top of DIGG.
So how do you get the eyeballs. How do you get people interested in a simple blog post or article and WANT to pass it around? Do you have to be a GREAT writer? Make your readers OOOH and AHHH at your wild and amazing tales? I'm not sure. I think that's what I'm trying to understand though. Maybe that's why people buy all these courses and ebooks and training videos etc. They're SEARCHING for something. They want a SOLUTION that works for them. Not all of us want to use Google. Not all of us want to use Stumbleupon. We want a solution that's tailored to each of us specifically. Or maybe that's just what I'm after?
If someone created a product that was called "Cal's Perfect Guide to Getting Traffic, a List, and More" I'd buy it in a second. It would have all the info I ever wanted to "get the eyeballs" and it would be perfectly tailored for me only. See, I've done the SEO stuff. It's time-consuming and to me getting backlinks is like asking my neighbors for free food. "He's back", they murmur. "He wants meatloaf and mashed potatoes". Should we give it to him?
I don't know. Maybe I'm just feeling overwhelmed. I'm sitting here by myself, trying to be creative, trying to build products that people will love, trying to learn more, trying to build a list, trying to post an entry to my blog, trying to eat lunch, HOLY CRAP. Sometimes it's just so hard to focus on one thing. I have a product, I should focus on selling it.
But I have my doubts sometimes. Maybe people don't want to learn what I have to teach? Maybe I should have made the videos longer, or shorter. Maybe I should just scrap it and redo everything. Maybe it's great but nobody knows it exists? Hell I don't know anymore, I'm gonna eat a cookie.
CAL
I could write the most amazing piece of content ever right here but who would see it? I think that's the hard part about this internet stuff. The old adage "content is KING" is definitely partially true. Content is important and can be used in a multitude of ways. The problem for me is getting the eyeballs. If your content isn't AMAZING or SUPERB or HILARIOUS or SCANDALOUS it won't be at the top of DIGG.
So how do you get the eyeballs. How do you get people interested in a simple blog post or article and WANT to pass it around? Do you have to be a GREAT writer? Make your readers OOOH and AHHH at your wild and amazing tales? I'm not sure. I think that's what I'm trying to understand though. Maybe that's why people buy all these courses and ebooks and training videos etc. They're SEARCHING for something. They want a SOLUTION that works for them. Not all of us want to use Google. Not all of us want to use Stumbleupon. We want a solution that's tailored to each of us specifically. Or maybe that's just what I'm after?
If someone created a product that was called "Cal's Perfect Guide to Getting Traffic, a List, and More" I'd buy it in a second. It would have all the info I ever wanted to "get the eyeballs" and it would be perfectly tailored for me only. See, I've done the SEO stuff. It's time-consuming and to me getting backlinks is like asking my neighbors for free food. "He's back", they murmur. "He wants meatloaf and mashed potatoes". Should we give it to him?
I don't know. Maybe I'm just feeling overwhelmed. I'm sitting here by myself, trying to be creative, trying to build products that people will love, trying to learn more, trying to build a list, trying to post an entry to my blog, trying to eat lunch, HOLY CRAP. Sometimes it's just so hard to focus on one thing. I have a product, I should focus on selling it.
But I have my doubts sometimes. Maybe people don't want to learn what I have to teach? Maybe I should have made the videos longer, or shorter. Maybe I should just scrap it and redo everything. Maybe it's great but nobody knows it exists? Hell I don't know anymore, I'm gonna eat a cookie.
CAL
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