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Blogging a Book Makes Sense
My first book consisted of fifty blog posts I had written on the topic of building a profitable business, based on using the power and leverage of relationship marketing. Early on, I didn’t realize I was blogging a book. It came about as a result of conversations I was having in early 2009 with two mentors at that time, Raymond Aaron and Alex Mandossian.
I had encountered each of these men purely by chance, and their impact on my life and business was miraculous, to say the least. It was too soon for me to realize that mentorship is the common thread with the overwhelming majority of successful people in any walk of life. I’ve since written a bestseller on Living the Mentored Life, but that’s a story for a different day.
Although I’d been online for three years at this point and was increasing my income month over month, I was floundering. I lacked direction and my goals were more like items placed on a “to-do” list. At the beginning of each month I felt as though I was starting back at the beginning and my productivity was slow as molasses.
It would take days for me to get the momentum needed to even know what I could be doing. Many months during this period, I was simply living previous months over and over again. The only thing that kept me going was the belief that if I didn’t, my income would fall off and I would no longer be able to meet…
