I know that many of you have been asking us to have Charlie Gilkey as a BlogcastFM guest for quite some time. We finally got around to connecting and I think you’ll love the advice he had to share. Here are just a few of the highlights: 
- Leveraging the Questions People Ask you To Turn Your Blog Into a Business
- Why it’s important to stick with an idea long enough to see what can come of it
- The 3-5 Year Timeline For Building a Business
- How to Find the Right Person to Collaborate With
- The Keys to Getting Known and Building a Network
- Why Every Successful Blogger Has a Coach or Mentor
- Why You have to Continually Adjust Your Strategy
- How to Figure out What People Want and Will Pay For
Charlie Gilkey writes about meaningful action, creativity, and entrepreneurship at Productive Flourishing. Follow him on Twitter to see how he does at the whole brevity thing.
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[...] You all know I love Charlie Gilkey. I use his planners and read just about everything he writes. It was a pleasure listening to him as well. I had numerous Aha moments during his conversation with Srini (from blogcastfm.com) about Turning your blog into a real business, networking and collaboration [...]