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How My Blog Got Me a Job & a Book Deal

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June 13, 2015
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How My Blog Got Me a Job & a Book Deal

The story about my blog, what I did, and what happened.

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Patrick Rauland

June 13, 2015

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Transcript

  1. How My Blog Got Me a Job & a Book

    Deal Patrick Rauland @BFTrick

  2. Problem: Being Unknown

  3. Problem: Proving Authority

  4. Problem: Ideas are lost and forgotten

  5. Solution: Blog

  6. None

  7. How I Got a Job

  8. None
  9. None
  10. None

  11. WooCommerce Support Ninja

  12. Get Published

  13. None

  14. Get Feedback From Your Community

  15. None
  16. None

  17. Coming Soon

  18. Problems

  19. None

  20. Just Write

  21. Forget Design

  22. "What gets measured gets managed" — Peter Drucker

  23. Measure - but don't obsess

  24. Forget SEO

  25. Patrick Rauland WooCommerce Product Manager at WooThemes @BFTrick

  26. Questions? @BFTrick