Our team at GreenMellen did a great job with a recap of fun stats from our business in 2020, so I thought I’d do the same with a few from this blog. Content I wrote a total 80 posts last year, with much of that coming after I started writing daily on October 29. All […]
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Get writing in 2021
If one of your goals is to starting writing/blogging more in 2021, I wholeheartedly encourage it. If you’re not sure if that’s something you want to do, this quick video from Seth Godin (which I’ve shared before) may help encourage you. Along those lines, though, I suggest that you avoid using a free blogging service. […]
Sharpen before you chop
When we’re building a website at GreenMellen, it’s typically around a six month process. Despite a website being largely a visual creation, the design doesn’t begin until we’re roughly two months into the project. How is that possible? When it comes to websites, or any kind of marketing, the message is what’s most important. Wrapping […]
WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin
I’ve not talked much about specific gadgets or plugins lately, but I’m finding tremendous value from the (free!) WordPress Editorial Calendar plugin. While I publish a new post every day on this blog, I write them in batches as I have time. As a result, I generally have 5-10 posts ready to go that are […]
Learn to answer the same questions
I refer to Seth Godin a good bit on this blog, as he’s someone that puts out excellent content — and has done so consistently for the last 20 years. I mentioned a few weeks ago that along with Seth, Chris Lema is someone how has made great use of a daily blogging habit. From […]
Graduate from Harvard or just drop out?
While it’d be almost impossible to prove, it’s been said that the average Harvard dropout has a higher net worth than the average Harvard graduate. When you factor in a few insanely wealthy dropouts like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, it might be right. Of course, this is just a good example being able to […]
Reputation vs Character
Your reputation is important. At GreenMellen, we help companies with reputation management to make sure their best side is showing to the world. However, we don’t do that for just any company; we need to know that their character is solid first and that’s a very different thing. The late, great basketball coach John Wooden […]
What’s the worst that could happen?
I’ve written a number of posts recently about not being afraid to just put your work out there (“Make More Pots“, “You’ll never be ready, so do it now“, “Learning in public“, and others), but there is a reason why people can be afraid to publish their work — something bad might happen. The point […]
Take a minute
I was recently listening to an episode of the Hidden Brain podcast titled “Screaming into the Void”, which dug into why people get so outraged about everything (and then others get outraged about the initial outrage, and on it goes). You can listen to it here if you’d like; it’s a great episode! Covington Catholic […]
Who is that feature really for?
I was in an interesting Twitter discussion recently where the idea of having website links open in new tabs came up. You know what I mean; sometimes when you click a link on a website, the new site replaces what you’re viewing, but sometimes instead they automatically open up in a new browser tab. So […]