In the earliest days of BlogcastFM, we had Betsy Talbot and her husband Warren on as guests on our show before they decided to sell everything they own and start traveling the world in 2010. They’ve grown dramatically over the last few years.
Here are some of the highlights from our most recent chat:
- How to Take Small Actions Toward a Bigger Goal
- Why You Might Be Idealizing the Life You Think You Want
- The 5 Tenets that Define the Message of Married with Luggage
- The Importance of Learning to Fail Fast
- Why It’s a GOOD Thing to Alienate Certain Readers
- The Importance of Building of Focused and Passionate Traffic
- How a Collaborative Project Drove a Tremendous Amount of Traffic
- How Amazon Raises Your Credibility
- Why Betsy’s Kindle Publishing Efforts Are Generating Revenue on a Regular Basis
- The Ancillary Opportunities that Arise from Publishing on Kindle
- The Importance of Treating Your Kindle Book Like a Real Book
- Optimizing Your Amazon Author Page
- The Connection, Creation, and Balance in Social Media
Betsy and Warren Talbot sold everything they owned to travel the world. It could be a midlife crisis or a sign they’re finally on the right path. Either way, it’s a hell of a lot of fun. simplifying your life every week on their blog, Married with Luggage. You can follow Betsy on Twitter @betsytalbot.
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Thanks for another great podcast! I’m a craft blogger and have friends who’ve seen success in publishing through Kindle. Love Betsy’s point about exhausting your market when you limit it to your blog audience–I’ll definitely be considering Kindle books in the future!
@makermama Thanks so much. WE seem to be a big hit with craft bloggers. I think that point abut exhausting your audience was one of the biggest takeaways from this whole interview.
@skooloflife @makermama The podcast has been totally relevant to me as a crafter–we’re all very hands-on in developing our online presence!
GREAT interview! I am completely obsessed with the Kindle too, after never thinking I’d want one. Got it as a gift and started using it a few weeks ago. I don’t think I’ll be buying too many “real” books in the future and am also thinking about publishing now, thanks to what I’ve heard here. Many thanks!
@Kelly Lester I was kind of the same. I got a few books on the Ipad Kindle reader and I was hooked. No shipping, you’ve got the book immediately, and you can highlight stuff and export the stuff you’ve highlighted. If ever want to use quotes I find in a blog post I just highlight them and then log into my Kindle account to look at them. I’ m definitely a convert.
Lovvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvved this!!!!