[toptemp]

Catchy enough? Please don't hurt me, lol. If you guys could check out my blog and give me some feedback, I'd absolutely love it!

By the way, I'm sure many of you would benefit greatly if you read one of my recent posts on Marketing Research (some great resources).

I promise you won't be dissapointed.

...follow link in signature.

[akula]

Originally Posted by toptemp

Catchy enough? Please don't hurt me, lol. If you guys could check out my blog and give me some feedback, I'd absolutely love it!

By the way, I'm sure many of you would benefit greatly if you read one of my recent posts on Marketing Research (some great resources).

I promise you won't be dissapointed.

...follow link in signature.

Good good

it'd be nice if you kept your posts a bit shorter and used a recognisable writing format (i.e. something like the GSQ method)

likewise, blogging works best if you join an ongoing conversation rather than do the; "this is my soapbox" thing.

try this:

go to http://del.icio.us/hotblogger/ceoblogger
find some ceo bloggers there and in other places
write commentary to the things other people say, and email/comment/backtrack them when you've posted something, so they write about you

this way, you'll have more fun keeping your blog, you'll meet more people, you'll have a wider audience and your chances of infant blog mortality syndrome will drop dramatically.

[toptemp]

Sounds good.

By the way, what is GSQ... though I'm off to Google to look it up right now.

Also, you know, I was actually thinking about the way I present the information and all. I prefer the "conversational" feel a lot more. Thanks for the advice.

[mxer210]

The problem with your thread and signature is that you hype it up so much, and then I visit it and its not that great, a disapointment, and I left.

[toptemp]

hmm, i do remember learning that you should always over-deliver and never under-deliver... haha, I think I'm going to change my signature!

[toptemp]

Originally Posted by mxer210

The problem with your thread and signature is that you hype it up so much, and then I visit it and its not that great, a disapointment, and I left.

Then again, if you're gonna leave, you're gonna leave no matter what hype. Right...?

[Day2]

I don't know what the goal of the blog is. The design is nice enough and the writing style is solid.

If I were in your shoes, I'd adjust the content and tone to be less self-aggrandizing. Stuff like thinking that you can get as smart about stock investing as Warren Buffet, that your going to start and run a conglomerate like Richard Branson, that you don't need to invest for retirement because you're going to be a billionaire, that all the people around you think you're amazing, that you'll have "no trouble" getting financing for any of your great ideas... It's all a bit off-putting coming from a college sophomore with no apparant business accomplishments.

You're response is likely going to be "That's who I am! That's who I'm going to be! I'm the real deal!". Fine. But dial it back and focus on your SHORT term goals (like, for example, getting your FIRST business to the point where it's a going concern). Keep your long-term lofty goals to yourself until you get to the point where they don't look ridiculous to everyone else.

Just my 2 cents. Hope it doesn't sound too harsh.

[toptemp]

No, I apreciate your comments. I know what you mean by not having much to back it up at present.

Though, for the record, I'm working on several significant businesses.

Also, I think becoming just as good as an investor as Buffet is quite possible with improved economical knowledge as well as technology as so forth. That also goes to say that investing isn't rocket science either. Also, I don't see how running many companies like Richard Branson is that big of a deal. It all depends on how you define your "business." It's about being able to see opportunities, make something out of them, and being able to go on to the next opportunity without letting your previous investments fail. Making a system. I say that I'll have no trouble finding financing because that will be the case. Then again, I haven't really had much trouble in anything up to this point in life; I guess it's all about how you define trouble.

Like you said I'd say, "I'm that person."