Category Archives: Education

Leverage Your Personal and Professional Networks: Ten Lessons From Four Months of Blogging (Part VII)

Posted on Sunday, June 5, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Another way to generate traffic for your blog (and uncover unanticipated opportunities) is to leverage your personal and professional networks. Spread the Word Throughout Your Network Using Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, as I have discussed in a prior blog, can be instrumental … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blogging, Business, Education, Mathematics, Media, Predictions, Thurston and Talbot, Writing | Tagged Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Quora, Technorati, The Economist, The New York Times, Thurston and Talbot, Twitter, Vast right wing conspiracy, Yahoo! | Leave a comment

Take Advantage of the News Cycle: Ten Lessons From Four Months of Blogging (Part VI)

Posted on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Understanding the news cycle is critical for any blogger because potential readers are more likely to come to a blogger’s site if it offers content on a hot topic. As such, an important part of your blogging strategy should focus on … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blogging, Business, Education, Mathematics, Media, Predictions, Writing | Tagged Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Quora, Technorati, The Economist, The New York Times, Twitter, Yahoo! | 6 Comments

Quantifying Political Correctness

Posted on Wednesday, May 25, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

“But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” — George Orwell I have always been annoyed by the American political correctness movement. Its reach is so extensive that it has changed some of the older words in the English lexicon. In some … Continue reading →

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Posted in Education, Politics | Tagged Google Ngram, Humanity, Humankind, Mankind, Political correctness | 19 Comments

Leverage Social Media as a Distribution Platform: Ten Lessons From Four Months of Blogging (Part V)

Posted on Sunday, May 22, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Another way to reach the broadest possible audience is to leverage social media. After my first four months of blogging, social media accounted for slightly over 40% of the referrals to my blog. Of those referrals, Facebook has been responsible … Continue reading →

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Title for Search When You Search for a Title: Ten Lessons From Four Months of Blogging (Part IV)

Posted on Wednesday, May 18, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

Search engines are another huge vector for site traffic. Serious bloggers should always register their sites with Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. According to Experian Hitwise, these three account for nearly 95% of all search engine volume globally, with Google taking … Continue reading →

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Leverage the Media to Drive Traffic to Your Site: Ten Lessons From Four Months of Blogging (Part III)

Posted on Monday, May 16, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

In the beginning, driving traffic to a blog can be very challenging. However, one way to direct traffic to a site early on is to comment on online articles published by traditional media. When submitting comments on traditional media outlets, there are several rules … Continue reading →

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My Favorite Governor

Posted on Friday, May 13, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

There are very few politicians who tell it like it is. However, the rare politician who does, can be a godsend. Governor Chris Christie is one of those politicians. I just wish he would run for President. I wanted to … Continue reading →

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Posted in Education, Finance and Economics, Policy, Politics, Taxes, Unions | Tagged Governor Christie, Harvard School of Education, New Jersey | 10 Comments

Ten Lessons From Four Months of Blogging: Part I

Posted on Monday, May 9, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

My decision to start blogging started with a desire to publish a book. I went the traditional route and spent about a month writing a book proposal, and submitting query letters to agents. I got lucky and landed a phenomenal agent. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Blogging, Business, Education, Mathematics, Media, Predictions, Writing | Tagged Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Quora, Technorati, Twitter, Yahoo! | 22 Comments

California Dreaming: Businesses Continue to Leave State

Posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 by Sean Patrick Hazlett

According to The Wall Street Journal, 70 businesses have left California this year at an average of 4.7 businesses per week. Twenty percent of these businesses will relocate to Texas, where the unemployment rate is 8% versus California’s 12%. Over … Continue reading →