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Why Don't People Like Me
Why Don't People Like Me
1. Business Revenue
• Cash is always King!
2. Blog Metrics
• Is my message resonating?
• Am I converting traffic into business?
3. Am I Having Fun?
• Do I really enjoy what I’m doing?
Cash is Always King
• I run a corporate development consulting business
• Leverage blogging and social media to get leads
• Strong correlation blog/social media performance with my revenues and profits
Each web business has a few metrics that are important to them. You
have to decide what is relevant for your business. These metrics
happen to work for me but probably won’t for most businesses
Metrics That Matter for Me
• Daily visitors = exposing my message
to new people
• Historically 72% New / 28% Returning
Yes, That’s
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spatially relevant
• Alltop 25 Branding Blog
• Alltop 25 Product Management Blog
• 20+ Speaking Engagements a Year
• 200+ RSS Readers
• 2,370 Twitter Followers. 2,655 updates
• 32,780 people have viewed his presentations on slideshare.net
(I’m only up to 973)
Spatially has been kind enough to mentor me over the past
six months. Before his intervention I averaged 5 views a day. I would
have never gotten the leads that turned into gigs if Spatially had
not taught me how to build demand via the web
• Owning a couple of Google search terms is handy
• Calculating Enterprise Values is one of mine
• Over 1/3rd of My Traffic is driven by people looking
to figure out how to calculate the enterprise value
of public and private companies
DevelopmentCorporate.com Blog Post % Page Views
How to Calculate the Enterprise Value of Private Companies 18.6%
How to Calculate Enterprise Value 17.9%
Why Google Employees Quit, Why Web 2.0 is Over, & Why Your Newborn Needs A Gmail Account 7.7%
The Cost of Financial Illiteracy 7.1%
Carlyle Group:How the Global Credit Meltdown has Changed the World of Private Equity 6.6%
Harvard Business Review - How to Outperform During This Recession 5.6%
Mary Meeker, Morgan Stanley "Queen of the Net: Economy + Internet Trends" 4.7%
How Much Are Mashable.com, DrudgeReport.com, & Gawker.com Worth? 4.2%
The Hedge Fund Transparency Act or "We have to Disclose WHAT to the SEC!" 3.9%
Cheating the Shorty Awards, Cerberus Layoffs, & Obama's Gatling Gun Suburban 3.8%
John C. Mecke | DevelopmentCorporate 2.9%
About Us | DevelopmentCorporate 2.6%
What Does a Trillion Dollars Really Look Like? 2.3%
SaaS Revenue Primer: Flux Analysis 2.1%
I Wish I Knew How to Monetize Social Media 1.7%
SaaS Revenue Primer: Tiering Analysis 1.6%
Monetizing Social Media: CiscoFatty.com 1.5%
If I were the Twitter Product Manager for a Day . . 1.4%
How to Pitch a VC the Marc Andreessen Way (aka Pitching Hacks at Stanford) 1.4%
Debunking Layoff Myths 1.3%
A 2009 Prescription for Venture Capital & Private Equity 1.3%
Am I Having Fun?
I am like a kid in a candy store. In the past six
months I’ve rediscovered my love for writing and
story telling and I’ve been able to use those skills
to drive new gigs for my business