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Ben Lumley0School’s Speaker0Personal Achievement

Coach

www.thebenlumley.com

@ mrbensays

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/benlumley6

So what?

www.garyvaynerchuk.com

• Host of Wine Library TV

• Wants to own the NY Jets

• Appeared in the Wall Street

Jounral, Time Magazine, on

Late night with Conan O-Brien

• Built Vaynermedia from

online, now works with NHL

www.lewishowes.com

• Former All American Football

Player

• Founded Sports Executives

Association and

SportsNetworker.com 

• Go to guy for using LinkedIn to

build a business

• Conducted trainings and webinars

for more than 8,000 people

worldwide.

www.taramohr.com

• Life Coach

• Written for USA Today, Forbes,

and Ode Magazine 

• Regularly writes for the

Huffington Post

www.envato.com

• Founder of Envato

• Started with nothing. Built PSDtuts 2006

• 8 million visitor p.m

• Sites in the top 1000 on the net

• Sole purpose of Envato is to help

people to earn and to learn, online.

www.virtualbusinesslifestyle.com

• Ceo of Virtual Outsourcing firm

Live2Sell

• Virtual CEO mission

• Featured on BBC’s Click

• Only been online 9 months,

making massive amounts of

money through online efforts

Your Voice = Your Brand

Purple Cows

Success

#1 Key to Success?

Give a Crap!Gary Vay·ner·chuk

Blogging...

VS

No matter what you do,

it’s about brand awareness

9 killer tips for creating an awesome blog

In true blog post fashion...

#1 Just start

#2 Be consistent

#3 Make it easy to share

#4 Be clear on your niche

#5 Create content for your niche

#6 Interact

#7 Provide Value (solve a problem)

#8 Spread your word through guest posting

#9 Play for the long game

They don’t give it the attention it deserves

They worry more about the way it looks

than what it does

They listen to the negative voices in

their life

They don’t believe in the

product/content/service

Q and A

www.thebenlumley.com

@mrbensays

http://uk.linkedin.com/in/benlumley6