StumbleUpon Traffic versus Getting Featured on CNN and Lifehacker with Luciano Passuello (@lucianop)
Luciano Passuello is the author of Litemind: one of the biggest personal development blogs on the web. Luciano often digs deep, analyzes issues and looks at reasons behind why we think the things we do – and he applies his same analytical perspective to blogging. You’ll love this interview, as Luciano shares some original methods for making your blog successful including: 
- How Stumbleupon regularly sends him upwards of 10,000 visits in a day
- Getting featured on large sites such as CNN and Lifehacker
- The one question to ask yourself in order to write the most effective blog post
- The importance of writing multiple blog posts that you never publish
- Some very cool Google Analytics tricks to get the most out of your data
- Why the term “monetization” is all wrong
Luciano Passuello is author of Litemind where his mission is to explore ways to use our mind efficiently. You can follow him on Twitter @Lucianop
Podcast: Download (Duration: 33:36 — 15.4MB)
Hey man it's so inspiring to see somebody pretty much like me Luciano and with the same obstacles as me. I of course have an accent, because Spanish is my first language and I have problems sometimes writing a 400 word article but its awesome to see that you were able to make it. You definitely give me inspiration to keep working on my blog, even though like you I write a huge post sometimes and only get one comment. Thanks Luciano
Thanks Srinivas for being such a great host! Like he promised, he made me feel at home during for the interview! (And how not to enjoy his radio announcer voice, uh?) :)
Jonathan: Thanks for your support! It's always great to have you around!
Farnoosh: Just start is one of my mantras. I was harmed for too long harmed by standard self-help advice that tells you that you should have "the end in mind", or that "if you don't know where you're going, you'll never get there". While that may help to an extent, for me it causes more harm than good.
Thanks for listening and for becoming a new subscriber! :)
Luciano, great advice and you have such sincerity, such honesty and such openness. "Just write and find your voice" and "just get started". I really enjoyed listening to this, and I am beyond impressed with your website, your success, and wish you the very best. I am a new subscriber!!!!
Hey Srinivas and Luciano, this was really a great interview. I have followed Litemind for a long time and over that time Luciano and I have become friends. He is an outstanding person and now I feel more connected with him. It's always so nice to here the voice of someone you know but have only communicated with through the written word.
Srinivas, these interviews are coming across really well, polished but casual. Excellent job my friend. By the way, I also use StumbleUpon in much the same way as Luciano. In addition, I have also been paying much closer attention to SEO lately and have noticed good results from that as well.
Hey Wilson,
You don't realize how happy I am that my story served as an inspiration for you.
I didn't expect it to have that effect at all --- I guess that's what happens when we just share our experiences candidly --- very cool! (For a long time I was ashamed of telling people how hard blogging sometimes felt for me...)
Keep it up! :)
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