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Thursday, November 13, 2008

Welcome! Thrilling Heroics is a site for young professionals and college students who want to pursue an unorthodox, exciting lifestyle & career. If you like what you read here, subscribe for free and get tips on personal development, entrepreneurship, branding & lifestyle design delivered to your email inbox or RSS reader. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing [...]

Personal Branding Guru Dan Schawbel Never Ceases to Impress!

Thursday, October 30, 2008

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My Gen-Y colleague Dan Schawbel has strategically positioned himself as a personal branding expert over the last few years, and he continues to impress me on nearly a monthly basis. Among his many projects, Dan founded an online magazine called, fittingly, Personal Branding Magazine, and their new quarterly issue is out on November 1st. From the [...]

Tune In for a Free Social Media & Internet Strategy Conference This Wednesday!

Sunday, October 26, 2008

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Two weeks ago I told you that you can’t ignore social media if you’re gonna succeed in business these days. Well this Wednesday there is a great opportunity for many of you small business owners and entrepreneurs I know. If you’re interested in internet marketing strategy, building a web presence, gaining visibility through the search [...]

Darren Rowse Shares How He Built His Ultra-Brand Through Blogging

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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In a recent interview with Dan Schawbel at the Personal Branding Blog, Darren Rowse, the original Pro Blogger and co-author with Chris Garrett of the new book ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to A Six-Figure Income, talks about how he uses blogs and social media to connect with his audience and build a globally-recognized [...]

A Third of Inc. 500 CEOs Have Blogs! Do You?

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

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This month’s Inc. magazine showcases the Inc. 500—the fastest-growing privately-owned companies in America. This is where companies like Zappos, Intuit, GoDaddy, Jamba Juice, Qualcomm, Timberland, Clif Bar, Microsoft, Patagonia, American Apparel, and many others have graduated from. This year’s CEO survey showed that 31% of Inc. 500 company CEOs maintain a blog or social network. Here’s [...]

Tweet and Grow Rich: A Beginner’s Guide Plus 5 Tips to Rock Your Business With Twitter

Wednesday, August 6, 2008

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For newbies out there who don’t quite know how to best put Twitter to use, and for those of you who aren’t using it yet but are wondering if the new web service is worth your time: This Guide is for You. What is Twitter? Twitter is a new social network/instant messaging mashup that’s being referred to [...]

Check Out ThrillingDesign.com If You Need Help With WordPress & Blogging

Monday, August 4, 2008

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There have been several recent changes in my online empire. In addition to the new blog community search tool I recently introduced to the blogosphere, I’ve mentioned my new freelance site a few times, and my recent interview at ABCnews.com, but I wanted to take this opportunity to officially invite you all to visit ThrillingDesign.com, [...]

Announcing an Awesome New Community Search Tool for the Blogosphere!

Thursday, July 31, 2008

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Ever since I discovered Google Custom Search, I’ve been using it to pinpoint the exact kind of awesome articles, tips and tricks I’m looking for much quicker, and to increase my efficiency and decrease the time it takes me to find answers or write up blog posts. Personally, I’m a big fan of productivity lists, how-to’s, [...]

How To Know If You’re Cut Out to Be A Blogger

Wednesday, July 16, 2008

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I had a lengthy conversation today with a mentor who is considering starting a blog. His concerns naturally revolve around whether blogging will pay off in sales and conversions for his firm. It’s always difficult to say what direct and indirect impact a blog may have on someone’s profession or on the amount of business [...]

Thoughts on Working From Home and Starting Out as a Freelance Web Worker

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

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As a follow-up to my post the other day, How to Make Friends with Career Columnists and Influence Mainstream News Organizations, I’d like to share some more of the insights from my conversation with ABCnews.com columnist Michelle Goodman. She asked a number of really great questions, and naturally only a very small part of our [...]

Are You a Rebel Programmer Without a Cause? Help Transform Education

Sunday, June 15, 2008

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Steli Efti, a friend of Thrilling Heroics and creative entrepreneur behind Supercool School, is looking for a rockstar coder for a summer internship. Supercool School is a revolutionary concept in education, offering a free online learning marketplace that enables users to teach and study from each other over the web using audio-video chat. Steli and his [...]

Filtering Through the Static: My Media Consumption Habits

Friday, May 23, 2008

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I’ve put together a primer on my media and entertainment consumption as part of the Media Diet internet meme. It’s a big post, but I highly recommend each and every one of the useful links contained here, and if you take just five minutes to read through this, I’ve included a few little gems on [...]