I truly appreciate your insight.

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I think pretty much everything in business, particularly internet businesses, can be linked back to investing in individuals and trusting your gut-feel about who might be a good partner in the future, even if they aren’t at the present moment.

It seems to me often it is necessary to plan things ahead, but if the wind blows another way, why not follow it.

Can’t agree with you more.

I’d like to expand on Point #7 though: especially since we’re talking specifically blogger and entrepreneurs.

At least in my target market of women entrepreneurs, research supports that when women keep a “job” alongside their new business start-up they succeed faster. More details are here.

With your post of ‘the future of blogging’ and ’springboarding into the future’, for me, I’ve always seen my blogging as a branding/marketing/networking “relational” technique as one aspect of my “online biz”. Therefore, I share my time mgmt system to achieve this here.

To respond to Brian, on and off blogging for over 2 years, I still consider myself a “small fish”, but making a “big difference” to my community that I strive to increase its traffic day in and out. Think of the this time (in the beginning) as a critical time to think of the future and your “springboard’ affect. Because, those aimlessly blogging will be left in the dust. Unlike yourself, empowered with education and forward-thinking…you are well on your way to unlimited success. :-) Cheers!

I’d love to also add that these kinds of opportunities don’t just fall out of the sky. You really need to position your blog to be in the right place at the right time. Since there is NO way to predict where and when that will be, it takes ongoing cultivation of relationships and self-promotion to make it happen.

I can’t stress the value of online networking more highly. The reason I was under consideration for the Entrepreneur.com gig was simply because I introduced myself to their Affiliate Program Manager. I had NO IDEA it would lead to a writing gig for them, but by being proactive, my name and blog was in front of the right people at the right time.

the lightbulb goes on.