Links To Stuff By And About Me
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Dec 15, 2010
Some weeks ago Sire indicated in a comment that I should write something about myself and some accomplishments to let everyone know stuff I’ve done. Truthfully, it sounded a bit self serving to do, but in reality I’m realizing that if I expect to continue working on having any influence whatsoever and hoping to do more business in all fields, especially presentations and speaking engagements, that I’m really my major “product”, if you will.
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Thus, this post is going to show off a bunch of links to other stuff I’ve done or written to show that I’m not quite one dimensional. Okay, you probably knew that, and you hopefully saw that little meme the other day. So, here’s more on me; some of the links come from this blog as well.
First, I have about 27 articles on EzineArticles at this juncture. Here’s the link to articles I have listed on that site. I will honestly say that I haven’t gotten lots of bounce from these articles over the years, but hey, if you don’t take a shot at it you’ll never know, right? I’ve written on this particular subject, article marketing, as well.
Second, here’s a list of articles I’ve either written or I’ve been quoted on. I have this list on my business site.
Third, here’s a list of articles I’ve written on my SEO Xcellence site, mainly on SEO topics of course.
Fourth, here’s a list of articles on health care topics that I have listed on my site Medical Billing Answers. Only a couple of those are for folks not in health care; I really need to write more of those.
Fifth, on another site of mine, Services and Stuff, I have articles that I’ve written and articles that other people have written listed. Mine are easy to find, and my friend Sue has some articles listed on that page as well.
Sixth, two weeks ago on my business blog I wrote a post that was directly related to what Sire stated, although I didn’t go into as much detail as he talked about. It was called Who is Mitch Mitchell Anyway?
Seventh, you might not have noticed but I have a page at the top called Interviews, and that’s a listing of every interview I’ve given or been a part of that I can remember. Certainly enough for a press kit if you ask me.
And finally eighth, some links to goofy questions I’ve answered on this blog about opinions and the like; strange stuff, but it all adds up to giving some kind of idea of who I am and what I might be about. Nothing too deep, I hope:
10 Things That Lead To A Happier Healthier You
Seven Things You Don’t Know About Me
I think that’s enough of that; I could easily add some more stuff, but truthfully, most of you aren’t going to go through all that other stuff, so why go too far with it.
Now, here’s a notification for you. You’ve probably noticed I’ve been putting up products in previous posts geared towards Christmas gifts. Tomorrow’s post is only going to contain banner links to affiliates I promote here and there that have special online deals for the holidays. It’ll be the only post that’s going to have lots of things like that, but I will say that I get emails all the time, so leading up to the holiday if new emails come in I will be putting those affiliate ads in at the end of my posts instead of a specific, unless I don’t get an email within the 24 hours I’m writing my post; y’all know I tend to write posts ahead of time.
And there you are; now, here’s today’s holiday product:
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10 Posts That Deserve More Attention
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Aug 23, 2010
Something that’s hard for a lot of people is self critique. We’re either too easy on ourselves or too hard on ourselves.
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I’m no different, although my parameters change depending on what it is. When it comes to this blog, I know that there are a few throwaway posts, where the post isn’t necessarily important to anyone but was entertaining to write. That’s part of my quest to give visitors something different to look at.
However, there are times when I write something that, in my mind, didn’t get enough attention or enough visitors for whatever reason. Every once in awhile, I like to go back to some of those posts and share them in one specific post, hoping that maybe newer visitors will see those titles and say “hey, I must have missed that one”. At least that’s what I hope. So, here are 10 posts of mine over the last 2 months of 2009 and first 6 months of 2010 that didn’t get many visitors that I feel deserve more attention.
5 Ways Poker Is Like Blogging – This was my attempt at being creative by comparing two of the things I love doing most, one of which is playing poker.
An Interview With Marelisa Fabrega – Marelisa is one of the top bloggers in the world, and I was able to secure an interview with her. This needs to be read by everyone.
Twitter Marketing – Do You Have A Plan? – I found myself again some days ago explaining to someone what Twitter was about and how it could be used for business, and this wasn’t at my workshop either.
How Can You Prosper Through Publicity? – Everyone who has a blog needs to understand just how much more prosperous they could be, either monetarily or personally, by figuring out how to handle their publicity better.
What Do We Expect For Free? – We all like free stuff, but are we taking it to the extreme for some things?
Are Writers Taken For Granted? – As someone who’s been writing to make a living for the last year, it seems that people devalue just how much of a commitment it is, even when they can’t do it themselves.
Content Is An Electronic Emperor – This was my response to a comment made by Rupert Murdoch, partially one of the most hated men in the world.
Web Courtesy – Don’t We Deserve That Much? – With so much hate that people spew in blogs and especially when responding to news stories, I question whether there is any courtesy anymore.
Are You Using Social Media For Promotion? – I wrote this last year, way before I ever started thinking about doing workshops on the subject.
My 10 Favorite Blog Posts Of 2009 – Okay, this isn’t quite fair, but at the end of the year I posted 10 blogs posts I liked that I wrote in 2009; so now you have 10 more to check out if you’re interested. 
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How Can You Prosper Through Publicity?
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Dec 29, 2009
Talk about an interesting issue, at least to me.
This year I’ve probably been a part of more interviews than ever before. Some have been online live interviews. Some have been in magazines. Some have been articles I’ve written. No matter; I’ve been out there, working things as I had hoped I could.
However, when all is said and done, I’ve gotten some publicity, but haven’t figured out how to fully capitalize on it. That’s not quite true; I haven’t figured out how to capitalize on any of it. I think that’s a major issue, as I’ve been getting publicity for years and haven’t yet capitalized on it.
Part of my problem is that I haven’t fully directed myself into one arena, which makes it hard for people to figure out just what it is I do. One wouldn’t think it would matter, but it probably does. My health care crowd has no idea what social media is, just as most of you who visit this blog have no idea what a revenue cycle consultant does. Throw in leadership and SEO and some other things and one might consider themselves as being renaissance, but others might not have a clue what to think.
Even with all of that, I think it’s been interesting over all this time to learn that publicity on its own doesn’t mean anything. Yeah, you get a minute or two of a bounce from some quarters. A newspaper article I was in back in May is on the wall of one of my favorite breakfast restaurants, which is very nice. I also got a free meal out of it at a local steakhouse; loved that as well. But business; none.
In any case, this was a pretty good year, and I’d like to share the links to some of the things I did this year as far as interviews or publicity went, since some of what I did isn’t producible. I wonder how most of you would have found a way to use any of these things to generate new income; I’d love to hear your thoughts.
My most recent magazine interview, though my participation is short, in Oswego County Magazine.
A radio interview I did on a subject called Men Have Issues Too.
A radio interview I did on the subject of Reinventing Yourself.
This is only a link to my business blog talking about my first national podcast on a diversity topic, Celebrating Differences.
An interview I did that ended up on a blog called Ramama’s Musings, where I talked a lot about dealing with diabetes.
An interview I did with New Media Bloggers on blogging.
A radio interview I did on the subject of blogging.
A radio interview I did on the subjects of social media and SEO.
A newspaper interview with my picture (in my red room) on Staying Positive.
An interview I did with Murray Newlands on affiliate marketing and business in general.
A health care interview I was a part of on Persuasive Compassion.
Finally, I’m listed as one of the top Baby Boomer Men of 2010 by Boomer Diva Nation.
So, did I put myself out there enough in 2009? Nope; I need to do even better in 2010!
More Promoting And Marketing
Posted by Mitch Mitchell on Nov 2, 2009
Writing a blog is pretty much like doing your own marketing and advertising. I say kind of because if one is always blatantly selling, some people eventually get turned off or just tune out, and suddenly you’re only writing to and for yourself. Whereas I always believe most of us should be writing for ourselves anyway, because we love to write, in the long run we write because we’d love people to read what we have to say, possibly buy something from us, or hire us to do other things for them.
November is going to be my month for figuring out how to better market myself, to make myself famous, if you will. I don’t want to be infamous because that might mean I’m either going to jail or getting bad press in the news; nope, that just won’t do. To that end, I’ve submitted myself for two interviews. The first one was posted on Saturday for me, but November 1st for him, that being on Ramana’s Musings. This was definitely something different, as we talked a lot about my diabetes and how it possibly affects me. I’d never been asked that before, and I’m always glad to share and spread the word about how bad diabetes can be.
The second interview isn’t out yet, so I’m not going to give that one away, but it’s another great opportunity to share my thoughts with people, being presented to an audience that might never have heard of me. And there’s plenty of those people, that’s for sure.
One thing I’ve been lucky for is to become kind of a regular participant in the interviews of Beverly Mahone, who does an online radio show every Sunday at 7PM called Passions, mainly geared towards women and social media, but really about social media, baby boomers, and anyone else who wants to glean some information. It’s not always just me, like it was when I spoke to her on reinventing oneself, but that’s okay because if it was always about me then it wouldn’t be a special thing, now would it?
I’ve talked about being able to get positive publicity through interviews, which is cool, but marketing oneself takes a bit more than that. I’ve thought about making a push for more Twitter subscribers, but that seems smarmy in light of the fact that there are all these people who keep pushing these products about gaining more Twitter subscribers, some even lying (yeah, I said it) by saying you could average 500 new subscribers a day. Trust me, only if you’re a celebrity is that going to happen.
Anyway, thinking about better ways to market myself, and my affiliate products, is going to be the thrust of November for me. I’m not promising this will be the only time I talk about my blog writing services, one of many I can provide folks, but it’ll be the only time I mention it this week; how’s that for a promise? 
And I’m not going to advertise most of the services that I provide in my main business here either, because the two don’t really cross over all that well with each other. I will, however, talk about my services as a business and executive coach, as well as share resources to find other coaches who might be more suited for what someone might be looking for, because I really do believe coaching can work wonders for anyone looking to make positive changes in their lives, business or personal.
That’s that for now. You’ve all been warned. Marketing, promoting, here we come!
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