At some point, the 10X rule stops working if you are a Solopreneur. Say you are an artist, writer, blogger, YouTuber, musician, designer, tutor, baker, and so on. (Someone without the long leverage of new technology or capital. Which would be most of us.) Say you just published your first blog or released your first song. Or you printed your […]
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Oftentimes we talk about being our own boss and dream of being a self-employed entrepreneur or a lifestyle business owner. We talk about making lots of money, about quitting our boring day jobs, and early retirement? We aspire about starting a lifestyle business and later perhaps someday even turning it into a billion-dollar empire! Not all career ladders go up, […]
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Many of you may have already read “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future” by Peter Thiel. Some of you may not have got the chance to read it yet. I recommend adding it to your reading list. (It’s a great read and also a prism to look inside Thiel’s mind, one of the […]
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Today, we live in the age of social media. We are connected with one another over several digital mediums. Some social platforms make it easy to follow influencers while some are good at keeping in touch with family and old high school friends. How would you define each social media platform? I have given this a lot of thought and based on my […]
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I have been on the Internet now for more than 18 years now. And, I have been blogging for the past 12 years. Starting from the Google Groups, Yahoo Groups, Blogger blogs, WordPress blogs, to Facebook Notes to the many aggregated blog platforms. Eventually, for me, this long journey reached its first significant milestone with the launch of “The Naked […]
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How to crush it on the social media? Today’s customers and fans expect every brand to be on the socials. And most brands are. We are. But, how do our fans judge us? What are the criteria that determine which pages, personalities, or accounts get followed or which brands are cooler? I have found that there are three critical criteria. Social […]
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Today, I am going to reveal my 10 years plan. As many of you (those who are regular on the Naked Soul blog) know we started this community to connect like minded individuals around the concept of “naked soul” in summer of 2014. This blog was launched in Oct 2014. I published the Naked Soul, book I (a collection of […]
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“Last spring, Forrester analyzed more than 3 million user interactions with more than 2,500 brand posts on seven social networks. Unfortunately those brands achieved less than a 0.1 percent engagement rate on six out of the seven platforms, including Facebook and Twitter. Instagram posts, however, generated a per-follower engagement rate of 4.21 percent. That means the app delivered brands […]
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Earlier this year, I deleted most of the irreverent videos from The Naked Soul YouTube as I want to take Naked Soul more towards the literary, self-help, and podcast domain. Build A Successful YouTube Brand This is what happened in the past 12 months and what I learned from it. 1. My Naked Soul subscriber count went up from 1200 […]
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As I come close to launching The Art of Travel (as one of the biggest travel & wanderlust brand in August of 2016), it is time to look back at The Naked Soul journey and figure out what have I learned and how am I going to apply these lessons to my travel venture. Challenges of Growing a Blog Here […]
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The Ultimate Guide for All Poets Looking to Promote Their Poetry CollectionI am a writer and a bestselling poet. However, writing is only part of my passion. The other part is creating an effective brand that adds value to the society. I make videos, engage in public speaking and offer one-on-one consultation. Building an author brand is more than just […]
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There are many writers who are renowned for the sheer volume of words that they have written in the course of their literary career. Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer, produced over 400 volumes of work and was commended for his work with prestigious awards. What did it take for him to write so much during his lifetime? Writer’s Digest […]
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Platform building is a long and difficult process. Where and how to best spend your time, energy, and money for the best possible outcome is a neverending quest for most of the independent artists, authors, and musicians. In this blog, I will share my best tips and tools to make your strategy successful. Platform Building A. Idea Incubation & Content Creation […]
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Today I want to share how I make money online. How I invest my time and where I invest my resources. I have made simple diagrams which will explain volumes. Let’s dig into it. As you can see, I am spread all across the board. I am an independent consultant and I run my own business as a self-employed […]
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My last 30 days on YouTube = $51.65 Can you imagine how much money do these kids make with millions of views on their videos? A lot of them make over $10,000 each month. Some make over $30,000 a month. The point is not to join the YouTube wagon but to create multiple funnels of income. You may be a […]
» Read more Writing a book can be a long, hard grind. On the other hand, writing can be fun. Writers love to write. Writing is a true joy when it is done for the sake of writing alone. Writing is both art and meditation. For me, writing is akin to a spiritual practice. Writing gets me into the flow state. Writing keeps me […]
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Blogging 1.0 and 2.0 is over. Sad but this is a fact. Read it, research it, accept it, swallow it, and get over it. If you are thinking of creating a passive income from your blog and you are starting now, you are entering into a very competitive domain. That said, let me show you a few things that you […]
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The first ever blog post I wrote took over three weeks to put together before I somehow found the courage to hit ‘publish’. I’m not kidding, for several weeks, painstakingly I’d write most nights (and during the day too if time permitted) optimistically hoping that, that particular day (or evening) would be the one when I’d feel courageous and confident […]
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It’s getting late, you’ve been working on your article for days now, thankfully, after several “final” drafts and edits, as well as the umpteenth reread, you’re now feeling confident enough to submit your work to your client or ready to hit the publish button. Moments after you’ve hit “send”, you let out a heavy sigh; you are relieved, elated; and […]
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I have been using Instagram for only 8 months now and observing the very successful and unsuccessful IGers, I have some thoughts to share. The following post is my crystallized tips on how you can experience explosive growth (like me) and gain very high user engagement on Instagram. This post is all about hacking Instagram. Ready? I am going to […]
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There is a lot of uncertainty regarding the future of publishing. Indie authors and traditionally published writers talk about this all the time. The future of publishing is one of the favorite dinner table talks for anyone related to the business of ink and white papers. Today you cannot read a single interview of a big name author and not […]
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Trolls and haters lurk in the depths of social media networks and their comments and actions can lead to a variety of emotions including anger, annoyance, frustration, and even hurt feelings. There is a distinction between these two terms that should be clarified. Trolls are often spam artists and input comments to social media posts that are often not even […]
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We all know about prolific writers such as James Patterson and Stephen King that are somehow able to produce anywhere between two to five books or more in a single year. Are there tricks and techniques that they employ to produce books at such a high rate? This article will enable you to learn how to become like these authors […]
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I am writing this blog post in response to several emails that I get each week. These emails usually start like: How do I get published? How to self-publish a book? How to publish my poetry book? In this blog post, I am going to attempt to make book-publishing simple for all of you aspiring writers. The Naked Soul Partners […]
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How To Find Your 1000 True Fans I believe in cultivating a tribe around my writing which resonates with my voice. I write both fiction and poetry. At some point in time, I want to write a memoir too. I am not a single genre writer. I like to read all kind of things and likewise, I want to write […]
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This week I have been trying my best to stay level headed post Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems book launch. Truthfully speaking, I have been as excitable as a chef just before the Thanksgiving! My debut collection of erotic love poems was published in eBook on January 23 and I have sold just over 100 eBooks in the first […]
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This is a blog post I originally wanted to write as “How am I going to promote my upcoming book “Naked Soul: The Erotic Love Poems“. But I believe it is better to write this post now since the book is already out. The Paperback was released on Jan 9, 2015. And the eBook was released on Jan 22, 2015. […]
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Cast your mind back, way back to those archaic pre-internet times — long before sharing and liking were everyday actions synonymous with the online world; when tweeting was just something birds did and when copyright protection, although still a tricky business, was far less open to abuse than it is these days. Copyright Page Demystified History dictates that the enforcement […]
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The Naked Soul Learning Zone How to Write a Sonnet, Haiku, Riddle, Rhyme, etc. Learn with examples and write your own. How to Write Poems and Rhyme When I was a kid, I had a huge obsession with Dr. Seuss’s books, practically every poem I read, included end-rhyme (words at the end of a sentence which rhyme with others […]
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Instagram has seen a humongous growth in recent years. With this explosive user growth, we also see the rise in posts related to literary nature. Quotations and poetry, in particular, are very popular on this relatively young social media platform. Interview With Writer Robert M. Drake There are a lot of accounts which posts poems, quotations and short pieces of […]
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So you have just discovered my blog and you are excited about what you are reading here. But, you have many questions and you are looking for answers without knowing where to look for them. This post is about how to use this blog and how to find whatever you are searching for faster. 1. You have a question? If […]
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