Ben Lumley's November 11th Zone Lecture, Blog your way to the top for more on Ben go visit his blog at: http://www.thebenlumley.com/ Ben also used The Social Media Revolution Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB_P-_NUdLw&feature=related

1. Blog Your Way
Blog Your Way
to The Top
to The Top
Ben Lumley

2. Ben Lumley
0 School’s Speaker
0 Personal Achievement Coach
www.thebenlumley.com
@ mrbensays
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/benlumley6

4. So what?

5. www.garyvaynerchuk.com
• Host of Wine Library TV
• Wants to own the NY Jets
• Appeared in the Wall Street
Jounral, Time Magazine, on
Late night with Conan O-Brien
• Built Vaynermedia from
online, now works with NHL

6. www.lewishowes.com
• Former All American Football Player
• Founded Sports Executives
Association and SportsNetworker.com
• Go to guy for using LinkedIn to build a
business
• Conducted trainings and webinars for
more than 8,000 people worldwide.

7. www.taramohr.com
• Life Coach
• Written for USA Today, Forbes,
and Ode Magazine
• Regularly writes for the
Huffington Post

8. www.envato.com
• Founder of Envato
• Started with nothing. Built PSDtuts 2006
•
8 million visitor p.m
• Sites in the top 1000 on the net
• Sole purpose of Envato is to help
people to earn and to learn, online.

9. www.virtualbusinesslifestyle.com
• Ceo of Virtual Outsourcing firm
Live2Sell
• Virtual CEO mission
• Featured on BBC’s Click
• Only been online 9 months,
making massive amounts of
money through online efforts

10. Your Voice = Your Brand

11. Purple Cows
Success

12. #1 Key to Success?

13. Give a Crap!
Gary Vay·ner·chuk

14. Blogging...

16. VS

17. No matter what you
do,
it’s about brand
awareness

18. 9 killer tips for creating an
awesome blog
In true blog post fashion...

19. #1 Just start

20. #2 Be consistent

21. #3 Make it easy to share

22. #4 Be clear on your niche

23. #5 Create content for your
niche

24. #6 Interact

25. #7 Provide Value (solve a
problem)

26. #8 Spread your word
through guest posting

27. #9 Play for the long game

29. They don’t give it the
attention it deserves

30. They worry more about
the way it looks than
what it does

31. They listen to the
negative voices in their
life

32. They don’t believe in the
product/content/service

33. Q and A
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