Catherine Caine on Discovering Your Strengths, The Advantages of Free Consulting and Information Product Forums
Catherine Caine was is yet another blogger I was introduced to by Jade Craven. Yes, it probably seems like Aussie blogger week here at BlogcastFM with all Aussie’s I’ve been interviewing. But, since the godfather of blogging himself is an Aussie that’s to be expected. Catherine spilled the beans on everything I wanted to know and thanks to her advice I’ve already started work on some great stuff. Here’s just a few of the immediately actionable tips 
- How a Business Making Pins and Badges Resulted in a Blog
- Discovering your Strengths and Turning them Into a Business
- Using Free Consulting Services to Create Paid Ones
- How to Use Information Product Forums To Develop Your Products/Following
- Focusing in Only One Idea in Every Blog Post/Publishing Every Single Day
- The Twitter Water Cooler
- How to Effectively Identify What Your Readers/Customers Need
- Why Giving Something Away is a Tremendously Effective Strategy for Building A Loyal Audience
- Why You Don’t Need to be a Guru to Effectively Monetize
Catherine spends her days giving website advice to delightful weirdoes at BeAwesomeOnline.com, and chatting to people on Twitter.
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Hee. I'm going to interview him back soon, does that count?
Hi Steve, I mentioned Sonia Simone's Remarkable Marketing Blueprint. Great place.
What was the name of the forum Catherine said she liked?
Moar from Catherine. The adoring fans have spoken :-)
Thanks for the great interview, Srinivas. I enjoyed it immensely. :)
Owen,
It's an interesting point you bring up and one that I've even got a blog
post written for. I'm hoping to get it over to Problogger once we do the
BlogcastFM overhaul
@Sri Yes you are correct, I have noticed that you are now asking more questions in the interviews as opposed to talking about yourself. I am learning a lot from you. Keep it up
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