How a Blog with 6 Readers Resulted in a Book Deal with Matthew Kimberley

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

• Episode: How a Blog with 6 Readers Resulted in a Book Deal with Matthew Kimberley
• Website: The Unmistakable Creative Podcast
• Feed URL: https://unmistakablecreative.com/podcast/rss
• Duration: 00:56:06
• Published: 2012-03-08 12:00

Originally published November 22, 2010. Republished as a BlogcastFM Classic on March 8, 2012. I met Matt at BlogWorld this year and immediately took a liking to him.  When he told me a few stories about his blog and the things that have happened to him over the last year, I knew that we had to have him on the podcast as a guest.  I think you'll find his story to be funny and inspirational. Here's some of the highlights:

• 6-7 Years of Failures that Didn’t Lead Anywhere
• How Matt Got His Book Deal on Twitter with Just 6 Readers on His Blog
• Why Matt has Started Blogs that Started and Stopped
• How to Deal with a Creative Block and Turn Your Day to Day Life into Interesting Content
• The Trap of Boring Corporate Blogs
• Why You Should Only Focus on the 10% of Readers Who Resonate with Your Message
• The Amazing Power of Your First Few Readers
• The Power of Inventing Rules to Develop Authority
• How He Got 100,000 Visitors from StumbleUpon
• Why Matt Has Invested Substantial Amounts of Money is Efforts
• How to Connect with Editors and Publishers on Twitter

Matt's blog, How To Get A Grip is about focusing on the important stuff. It’s largely a rehashing of common sense, with a couple of practical tips for manning up and getting things done. You can follow him on twitter @mjkimberley.  If you liked this article, would you share it with your friends? Just click here to post it to Twitter. One of our goals for 2012 is to become a top 100 show in iTunes. We can get there with your help and it will enable us to improve the how and bring on even bigger guests. So if you can, we’d be really grateful if you write us a review in iTunes.