Colin Wright may be the one and only guest to make a third appearance on BlogcastFM. One of the things that I’ve always enjoyed about his work is that he’s always working on multiple projects. His lifestlye of moving to a different country every couple of months definitely leads to some amazing and interesting content.
Here are a few of the highlights from our chat:
- Why Colin Shut Down a Successful Branding Agency to Travel the World
- Valuable Lessons from Running a Branding Agency
- Debunking the Myths of Lifestlye Design
- The Definition of Real Entrepreneurship
- How to Find the Convergence Point In Your Work
- The Essential Elements of Reducing Risk In Career Transitions
- What it Takes to Develop an Amazing Storytelling Voice
- The Importance of Using Multiple Forms of Media
- The Hierarchies of Content and Price Point that Colin Uses
- Why You Need to Build an Audience of People Instead of Numbers
Tweetable Insights Include:
- You can always make more money,but you can’t get more life (Click to Tweet)
- Real entrepreneurship is creating value from day 1. Anything else is just bad credit (Click to Tweet)
- If what you do for money is not what you enjoy, you should figure out a way to turn what you enjoy into money. (Click to Tweet)
- If I’m not headed toward happiness at any given time, then what the hell am I doing? (Click to Tweet)
Colin Wright is an author, entrepreneur, blogger, full-time traveler. and visits a new country every four months. His previous appearances on BlogcastFM included Colin Wright on Your First 100 Subscribers, Reaching a Broader Audience, and Networking Awesomely and Colin Wright on Writing for Flightster, Branding, and Building Scalable Profitable Assets. You can follow him on twitter @colinismyname.
If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter.
One of our goals for 2012 is to become a top 100 show in iTunes. We can get there with your help and it will enable us to improve the how and bring on even bigger guests. So if you can, we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.
Podcast: Download (Duration: 54:15 — 74.5MB)
Some extraordinary guests one after the other, I’m so inspired I’m finding it hard to sleep!
I love what @colinismyname had to say on how you should set yourself up first, throw off the anchors first before you can start moving into a new direction. When you put on the breaks you will be moving sideways for a bit. It took my husband and I a year after we became bankrupt, to clear the depts, sell everything and then move away for a fresh start. Right now we’re in the ‘incubating’ stage, preparing and setting things up.
I hardly noticed how hard it was running up those hills morning, I was so engrossed in this interview! Thanks,
Sarah
@squeezeddaily @colinismyname Thanks Sarah. Colin has always been one of my favorite people online because he’s always up to some really interesting things. He manges to execute really well on several thins at at time and if you haven’t read his work I’d give it a read. He’s a stellar writer.
Thanks @Skooloflife @colinismyname , yes, I think it would be a very good idea if we (my partner) dug deeper into your books.
I enjoyed this interview a lot. I’m surprised that more legacy publishers don’t pursue his portfolio strategy for their best-selling writers. Some do, but it’s more of putting one book on sale temporarily instead of a tiered system as Colin described in the interview.
In the past 2.5 years, I’ve published 40+ books electronically (not my own writing), so I’m always interested in hearing what others are doing on these eBook platforms.
@JeffRutherford thanks Jeff. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Hope that you stick around and check our archives as well. The world of publishing is going through a major transformation right now and people like Colin are really pushing the envelope of what’s possible.
@skooloflife I’m a long time listener. I may not have listened to every show in the archive – but I’m pretty close