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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
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  11. WooCommerce Support Ninja

  12. Get Published

  13. None

  14. Get Feedback From Your Community

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  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