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One of the things Advocates find most important is establishing genuine, deep connections with the people they care about.
Romantic Relationships | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesAdvocates care about integrity, and they tend to bristle when people try to change them or talk them into something that they don’t believe.
Romantic Relationships | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16Personalitiesthey tend to look for ways to grow as individuals and strengthen their connection with their partner.
Romantic Relationships | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesIt can take time for Advocates to find a compatible partner. Some people might think Advocates are too choosy, and it’s true that these personalities can have unrealistic expectations.
Romantic Relationships | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesProne to Burnout – Advocates’ perfectionism and reserve may leave them with few options for letting off steam.
Strengths & Weaknesses | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesAdvocates value honesty, but they’re also private. They may find it difficult to open up and be vulnerable about their struggles. This might also be because they think they need to solve their problems on their own or don’t want to burden other people with their issues.
Strengths & Weaknesses | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesWhen someone challenges their principles or values, Advocates may react strongly.
Strengths & Weaknesses | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesThese personalities rarely settle for “good enough,” and their willingness to disrupt the status quo may not please everyone.
Strengths & Weaknesses | Advocate (INFJ) Personality | 16PersonalitiesI would say get really good at something useful and freelance with it for a while to make a bunch of money to invest in something.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastSomething I don't think enough entrepreneurs think about is how do I build a business that's actually going to be fun to run in the long term?
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastYou just have to know which kind you want. If you want to go the route of being interesting and being very in-depth and thought provoking it's harder to make that an SEO focused blog. You have to be okay with getting a bit less traffic.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastSo in some ways you do have to, it's not a good way to say this but, cater to the lowest common denominator who's searching for the topic and try to write the content that will please them and that's how you stay top of mind on Google.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastThey want like a quick and easy solution.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers Podcastsomething that Google seems to reward is people staying on your site once they come in and they read an article. They seem to penalize people who open up your article and then go back to look for something else.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastSo that's part of why I don't try to over SEO my personal blog because I know it will necessarily lead to a decrease in value.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastYeah, unfortunately the answer is that writing extremely in-depth actionable useful guides and writing good SEO content usually don't go that hand-in-hand, unfortunately.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastBut on the flip side if you spend too much time thinking about these numbers and not enough time thinking about what it is that you're actually building or creating or writing, then it's easy to create something that's horrible.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastI don't talk to very many people who have this marketing-first approach, where the first consideration is to make sure that whatever it is that you create, you can get it in front of as many people as possible, as consistently as possible.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastNormally if you have a non SEO blog, you have to work to get traffic to every article and every old article. But if you have an SEO focused blog then the articles you get to rank just keep getting traffic, basically forever until somebody makes a better one.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastIf you can find like one good source and consume everything from that one source and then just go start experimenting. That's probably the best way to learn.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastI would caution people with the whole like reading and researching phase because it's so easy to just waste tons of time doing it.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers Podcastif you want to learn about SEO in general, I think you could basically just read Brian Dean's blog and watch his YouTube channel and you wouldn't really need to go anywhere else.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers Podcastthere is an absurd amount of content out there on SEO and 99.9% of the people writing about it don't really know what they're doing.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastI mean if you can find topics people are looking for, if you can write about them in extremely useful authoritative ways and then if you can get people to read your content and link to it, you will probably do very very well at SEO.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastWhich means you also need to putting energy into social promotion or building an email list or going on podcasts.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastWhich is finding out what people are searching for and there's a lot of ways you can do keyword research. You can use expensive tools like ahrefs. You can use free stuff like Keyword Planner.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastI mean the way that we usually think about it at Growth Machine is just that you want to write the best or most useful article on a given topic, on the web.
From Blogging to Growing an Agency to $85,000 a Month with Nat Eliason of Growth Machine - The Indie Hackers PodcastIn general, the older biographies are better.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellWe’re stuck in a violent and continuous storm of news. The vast majority of news has no informational value. It’s entertainment, with a veneer of importance.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellHave a bias for books that would push most people away, especially if they are still in print after many years. These books are either too long, too difficult, or too counter-intuitive, but they will likely contain information that will give you an edge.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellIf you’re reading challenging or intimidating books, you’re probably on the right track. Reading the right books is challenging and uncomfortable.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellDon’t trust what everybody in society is reading. Trust what the people you respect are reading instead.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellWhile most people will recommend new books, old books that’ve stood the test of time are likely the best use of your attention.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellHowever, there’s an even faster way to improve the quality of what you read: start writing publicly.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellReading is a cheat code. Improving what you consume is the fastest way to accelerate your pace of progress.
How I Choose What To Read - David PerellI rarely consume news. I look for non-expiring, long-term knowledge instead.
Swimming and Scuba Diving: How to Learn on the Internet - David PerellIf an idea catches my interest, I dive into the water and explore it deeply. Like scuba diving, intense learning experiences demand focus. They’re surprising and unpredictable.
Swimming and Scuba Diving: How to Learn on the Internet - David PerellOnce I’ve laid the foundation through speech-based content, I move down the Learning Funnel — towards text-based media.⁵
Swimming and Scuba Diving: How to Learn on the Internet - David PerellI use speech-based media — podcasts and videos — to test out the temperature of a new subject.
Swimming and Scuba Diving: How to Learn on the Internet - David PerellIn contrast, text-based media — books and articles — is like going from casual, toes-in-the-water swimming to full-on scuba diving. Reading builds expertise. Text-based ideas are transmitted are low-energy and emotionless.
Swimming and Scuba Diving: How to Learn on the Internet - David PerellSpeech based media is high-energy. It’s loaded with emotion. The vocabulary is simple, and gives me a easy-to-understand, two-dimensional overview of a subject.
Swimming and Scuba Diving: How to Learn on the Internet - David PerellMake writing a daily habit. A day where you don’t write anything is the enemy of productivity. Days when you don’t write anything are the enemy of productivity. The most important thing: write something every day — no matter what.
Riding the Writing Wave - David PerellYou want to be known as the best thinker in a skill or a topic. A Personal Monopoly is the unique intersection of your knowledge, personality, and skills that nobody else can compete with. Personal Monopolies aren’t found. They’re created.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellIn short, you can build an online reputation in three steps: Pick a high value, emerging industry. Learn as much as you can. Share what you learn on your personal website.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellConsistency is the name of the game. Without a consistent writing habit, you won’t succeed as a writer. Start slowly, keep writing, and don’t stop.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellI share my ideas as much as I can and run them through numerous filters. I move from conversations, to tweets, to emails, to blog posts. Each medium provides a different layer of feedback. By the time I’ve published a blog post, I’ve run the ideas through 3-5 filters, and each time I receive feedback, I keep more of what resonates and less of what doesn’t.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellThe fastest way to improve the quality of your work is to accelerate your feedback loops. More feedback is generally better.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellIntelligent readers want depth, nuance, and specificity. Speak their language, and ignore the temptation to write for the lowest common denominator.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellBuild a targeted audience. The more narrow and niche the topic, the better.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David PerellBy trying to appeal to everybody, you’ll end up appealing to nobody.
The Ultimate Guide to Writing Online - David Perell