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Friday, September 11, 2009

Career Renegade -

Recently finished Career Renegade by Jonathan Fields. A very good book with a ton of useful information for anyone looking to make a change in their career and focus on doing what they love and actually make some money at it.

Some "nuggets" from the book:

bubbl.us - a brainstorming on-line mind mapping tool
freemind - www.freemind.sourceforge.net another free mindmapping tool
popurls.com - a website that aggregates what is hot all of the major social media hubs

Create a blog and sign up as a publisher with Google adsense, google will serve up ads on your blog, you collect revenue

Book: Problogger: Secrets for blogging your way to a six figure income

Place a hire me page on your blog. look at remarkablogger.com and chrisbrogan.com

Website: copyblogger.com

Teach an online course, check out teachingsells.com, teach-nology.com

If you want to franchise your business, check out franchise.com, franchisetimes.com, franchise.org, franchiseperfection.com/blog, the franchise king blog

If you want to produce a video look at metacafe's producer rewards program

Entrepreneurs-jorney.com, cnx.org - hub for people looking to collaborate in creating education materials

Attend the SOBCon conference in Chicago

How to create a business plan: 10 questions with Tim Berry, on Guy Kawasaki's blog

Search engine optimization: http://tools.seobook.com

Use google trends, seobook.com, clusty.com

Use clickbank.com to promote your product

find out what is hot on ebay http://pages.ebay.com/sellercentral/catalog.html

book: ultimate guide to google adwords - Perry Marshall

use facebook polls

use itunes for free podcasts look at podcasts, then education

other video education sites:
wonderhowto.com
videojug.com
expertvillage.com
graspr.com

use opencoursewear

wordpress for blogging

brazen careerist.com

use blogfuse to publish your blog posts to your facebook page

use linkedin answers

yahoo buzz

podcasts about poscasting on itunes

career renegade.com

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