What forum content do you think should be articles on the TSS blog?
Lucio has already kicked us off:
Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on January 20, 2023, 4:01 amJust an example from a recent thread from Growfast:
Great advice there, but likely lost in the shuffle, also because the title is a bit generic.
To increase its appeal to the large public, one could title that:
- How to deal with know-it-all friend
Or:
- How to respond to the annoying guy who "always has to outdo you"
That may already get some Google traffic for people searching for something similar.
Then the article would list the different opinions and contributions in that thread as different techniques and approaches for slightly different scenarios.
Feel free to share any more ideas :).
Ali,
I think a good quick win can be to take examples that have some popular people in them, and then simply use their names in the title, with proven high-CTR formats.
For example:
Turned into:
Or "3 PR takeaways from Adam Neumann's interview fiasco".
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Good idea, thank you, Lucio.
The main task for me would be to search the forum for the most popular threads, identify the most valuable posts, and then double-check that they haven't already been used in/as a TPM article.
So, I'll circle back to this once I have more time to tackle it.
Another good example could be on Greta Thumberg.
And the title:
- When Greta Thumberg showed she's more honorable than most of her critics
Or:
- Great Tumberg shows how to use assertiveness for good
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The first ten articles are written, published, and live on TSSB now:
- How to Negotiate a Refund (and Win!): Case Studies: wanted to start the blog off with a nice, long, robust one. So, I collected (almost) all of the refund negotiation case studies in the forum so far and compiled and organized them into an ultimate guide. Hopefully, this will help you in your future refund negotiations.
- How To Keep Your Power When Someone Asks You To Take Their Picture: a great story and analysis with insightful teachings, all from Lucio himself.
- How To Deal With a Friend Who Tries To Outdo You: as suggested by Lucio, I've written this article and included another relevant case study to make it more valuable to readers.
- How To Deal With Disrespectful Sellers Who Act Like They’re Your Boss: two big cases that Lucio found valuable enough to share with his email list, so they earned their way into this article (with a bonus strategy from Lucio to boot).
- How To Write Cold Emails That Get Responses (Steal This Script!): with all of the poor cold emails TPM and I receive riddled with WIIFT fails, manipulations, and power-unawareness that make them destined for the spam folder, a guide compiling all of their mistakes and a great script anyone can use was long overdue.
- How Adam Neumann Could’ve Improved His Reputation After WeWork: also recommended by Lucio to include, you can find the official article for it here now.
- How To Deal with Cancel Culture and Virtue Signalers: an experimental article that combines many of Lucio's thoughts on cancel culture here in the forum into a step-by-step guide. Albeit, he says he hasn't done much research on the topic, I believe his thoughts are valuable enough to help people brand new to their journeys to becoming eagles and, therefore, it's earned its way to TSSB. (If Lucio disagrees, happy to unpublish it.)
- How Greta Thunberg Uses Positive Assertiveness and Social Power: the last article suggested by Lucio (in this thread) has been shared on TSSB, and I've included his latest case study on Greta Thunberg's "small dick energy" power move on Tate to make the article more lengthy and value-giving.
- How Socially Oblivious People Interact (Avoid These Mistakes!): see a case study (with examples collected and written by me) on mistakes to avoid if you want to keep a high-quality mentor.
- A Salesman Played Manipulation Games and Lost the Deal: finally, the last (but not least) article available, see an interesting case study of a salesman who tried to use pathologizing manipulation to close the deal and lost.
All articles can be accessed from the "Blog" page.
You'll notice that I redesigned many of the images, I wanted them to be top-notch for TSSB's first articles published.
Keep in mind, work is still being done (even as I type this), but I think it looks at least good enough to share now.
If you notice any room for improvement (or just have thoughts/feedback) for any of these (or future) articles, please let me know.
P.S.:
Headlines were brainstormed, scored, and created based on feedback from the free MonsterInsights SEO Headline Analyzer tool.
Awesome, awesome stuff, Ali!
Quickly switching now on feedback for improvement / ideas:
- Adopting a more "neutral" tone
Some of (my) forum entries here are quite opinionated and write with a friendly audience of like-minded people here who aren't going to attack or nitpick based on smaller stuff and/or personal opinions.
For example, this one here:
Greta might be a misled, uninformed catastrophist, but you don’t become the leader of a movement without some power skills and high-power attitudes.
That is likely to rub a lot of "green" and environmentalists the wrong way.
So one way to "neutralize" may be:
Greta might be a very divisive figure that drew quite some (sometimes well-founded) criticism, but you can't deny that she's become the leader of a larger movement that, for better or for worse, has the planet's best interest in mind.
And you don’t become the leader of such a large movement without some power skills and high-power attitudes.
- Feel free to post with your name
I guess you already knew this, but saying it anyway: if you edited the post and/or added your own sauce, of course feel free to post it under "Ali Scarlett".
And now the bigger one:
- Shorter YouTube videos with commentaries?
It may be a great opportunity and (relatively) easy win to post some of these as short YouTube examples (or even TikTok?).
Breakdown channels seem to be doing still very well.
One may show some bits and pieces of these examples, sometimes even just one single clip of a few seconds, and then add either some written commentary, or a video commentary.
If you fancy the idea, it could either be a new channel, or leverage the already existing audience on TPM's YouTube channel (and we can talk about how to make it win-win).
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Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on February 8, 2023, 2:01 am(...)
- Adopting a more "neutral" tone
Some of (my) forum entries here are quite opinionated and write with a friendly audience of like-minded people here who aren't going to attack or nitpick based on smaller stuff and/or personal opinions.
For example, this one here:
Greta might be a misled, uninformed catastrophist, but you don’t become the leader of a movement without some power skills and high-power attitudes.
That is likely to rub a lot of "green" and environmentalists the wrong way.
So one way to "neutralize" may be:
Greta might be a very divisive figure that drew quite some (sometimes well-founded) criticism, but you can't deny that she's become the leader of a larger movement that, for better or for worse, has the planet's best interest in mind.
And you don’t become the leader of such a large movement without some power skills and high-power attitudes.
Updated.
And, you make a great point, I even kept that in mind when it came to the other articles (for example, this article on dealing with disrespectful sellers where I changed your wording from "b*tch behavior" to "weakling"), but wasn't sure if you wanted to keep the Greta article a little more "raw" with your opinions.
Quote from Lucio Buffalmano on February 8, 2023, 2:01 am
- Shorter YouTube videos with commentaries?
It may be a great opportunity and (relatively) easy win to post some of these as short YouTube examples (or even TikTok?).
Breakdown channels seem to be doing still very well.
One may show some bits and pieces of these examples, sometimes even just one single clip of a few seconds, and then add either some written commentary, or a video commentary.
If you fancy the idea, it could either be a new channel, or leverage the already existing audience on TPM's YouTube channel (and we can talk about how to make it win-win).
Yeah, I'm hesitant to step into the world of YouTube Shorts, Instagram Reels, or TikTok because, generally speaking, I'm not a fan of social media or the kinds of people who spend long hours each day consumed in it.
If the upside is worth it, I'll do it, of course, so it's probably still worth trying.
But, if it produces low results after a few months of strong effort, it may be something I'd rather put down for now and focus on other things in the meantime.
Yeah, for those videos, just an idea on what I think may work, fully up to you whether to take it up or not.
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Update:
The article, "How to Negotiate a Refund (and Win!): Case Studies," has been updated with a great note Lucio made in TSS.
A couple of new additions to the article now are to avoid power over-protecting and instead aim for "The Assertive Approach" because when a refund denial is clearly unfair, you shouldn't go for an "it's up to you" approach. Instead, go direct.