Chip Wilson's Blog

Social Syndication – Leveraging Tribes and Human Psychology to Build Your Online Business

Our decision making process places a high degree of relevance and trust in the knowledge, opinions and feedback from those we consider to be our "social peers". It is fundamental to our survival strategy - our reliance on social validation dominates even our most trivial decisions. It is why word of mouth has always been the most effective form of advertising. Leveraging Social Media through Tribes is the latest strategy to leverage social validation.

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Got Social Media?

ShareUnless you’ve been living in a cave, you are aware by now that social media is no longer a fad, but a tactic. What may have been a novelty for a while has now evolved into one of the most effective, and also most challenging, methods to market your business and brand yourself online. What [...]

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Leverage Your Split Personality to Improve Your Blog Traffic and Keep In Tune With Your Tribe

ShareOnce you decide to use blogging as a tool for personal branding, social media or business promotion, the process can drive you to a severely split personality. On the one hand, our primary audience is made up of people, and people like to read actual prose.  They like to read words and see visions in their [...]

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Using WordPress.org to Create Your Blog or Business Website

ShareIf you have previously had a website, I bet you have said, or at least thought, one or all of these things: “#@&%!!, I just crashed my website!” “My developer can do that, but it’s going to cost an arm & a leg” “Wasted 3 hours!  What happened to my updates??” These are all pretty common, recurring themes, and [...]

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Would You Juggle a Chainsaw?

ShareI love using my chainsaw.  Playing Monty Python’s “Lumberjack Song” in my head, it’s fun work to go out back and clean up dead brush and timber.  The work is satisfying and creates immediate, noticeable results.  However, if you don’t know how to use a chainsaw, it’s a recipe for disaster.  You are most likely [...]

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