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What causes dehydration? 19 possible conditions
Dehydration takes place when your body loses more fluid than you drink. The most common cause of water loss from the body is excessive sweating. Read more
Dehydration takes place when your body loses more fluid than you drink. The most common cause of water loss from the body is excessive sweating.
The suggested amount of water to drink is eight to 10 glasses per day for an average, not active person. Individuals on the go, athletes, and people exposed to high temperatures should increase their water intake to avoid dehydration.
When too much water is lost from the body, the organs, cells, and tissues fail to function as they should, which can lead to dangerous complications. If dehydration isn't corrected immediately, it could cause shock. Dehydration can be mild or severe. Mild dehydration can usually be treated at home, whereas severe dehydration has to be treated in a hospital or emergency care setting.
Dehydration Risk Factors
Athletes exposed to direct sun aren't the only ones at risk for dehydration. In fact, bodybuilders and swimmers are among the athletes that most commonly develop the condition. This is because in these sports, drinking is discouraged during training sessions or before competitions, which can cause self-induced dehydration. And, strange as it may seem, it's possible to sweat in water. Swimmers lose a lot of sweat when swimming.
Some people are at a higher risk of developing dehydration than others, including:
- workers exposed to excessive amounts of heat (for example, welders, landscapers, construction workers, and mechanics)
- seniors
- individuals with chronic illnesses
- athletes (especially runners, cyclists, and soccer players)
- infants and young children
- people who reside in high altitudes
How Does Dehydration Develop?
Your body regularly loses water through sweating and urination. If the water isn't replaced, you become dehydrated. Dehydration is caused by any situation or condition that causes the body to lose more water than usual.
Sweating is part of your body's natural cooling process. When you become hot, your sweat glands activate to release moisture from your body in an attempt to cool it off. The way this works is by evaporation. As a drop of sweat evaporates from your skin, it takes a small amount of heat with it. The more sweat you produce, the more evaporation there is, and the more you are cooled off. Sweating also hydrates your skin and maintains the balance of electrolytes in your body. The fluid you sweat is composed mainly of salt and water. Excessive sweating can cause dehydration since you lose a large amount of water. The technical term for excessive sweating is hyperhidrosis.
Illnesses that cause continuous vomiting or diarrhea can result in dehydration. This is because vomiting and diarrhea can cause too much water to be expelled from your body. Important electrolytes are also lost through these processes. Electrolytes are minerals used by the body to control the muscles, blood chemistry, and organ processes. These electrolytes are found in blood, urine, and other fluids in the body. Vomiting or diarrhea can impair these functions and cause severe complications such as stroke and coma.
If you have a fever, your body loses fluid through your skin's surface in an attempt to lower your temperature. Often, fever can cause you to sweat so much that if you don't drink to replenish, you could end up dehydrated.
Urination is the body's normal way to release toxins from your body. Some conditions can cause chemical imbalances, which can increase your urine output. If you don't replace the fluid lost through excessive urination, you run the risk of developing dehydration.
What Are the Symptoms of Dehydration?
The symptoms of dehydration differ depending on whether the condition is mild or severe. Symptoms of dehydration may begin to appear before total dehydration takes place.
Symptoms of mild to moderate dehydration include:
- sleepiness
- dry mouth
- increased thirst
- decreased urination
- less tear production
- dry skin
- constipation
- dizziness
- lightheadedness
- headache
In addition to the symptoms of mild dehydration, severe dehydration is likely to cause the following:
- excessive thirst
- lack of sweat production
- low blood pressure
- rapid heart rate
- rapid breathing
- fever
- sunken eyes
- shriveled skin
- dark urine
Symptoms of severe dehydration are a real medical emergency and should be treated by a medical professional immediately.
Medical Emergency
Children and seniors should be treated immediately, even if they're experiencing symptoms of mild dehydration.
If a person in any age group develops the following symptoms, seek emergency care:
- severe diarrhea
- blood in the stool
- diarrhea for three or more days
- inability to keep fluids down
- disorientation
How Is Dehydration Diagnosed?
Before beginning any tests, your doctor will go over any symptoms you have to rule out other conditions. After taking your medical history, the doctor will check your vital signs, including your heart rate and blood pressure. Low blood pressure and rapid heart rate will indicate dehydration.
A blood test may be used to check the level of electrolytes, which can help indicate fluid loss. A blood test may also be used to check your body's level of creatinine. This helps your doctor determine how well your kidneys are functioning.
A urinalysis is an exam that uses a sample of urine to check for the presence of bacteria and electrolyte loss. Your doctor can also check for dehydration by checking the color of your urine.
Strategies to Treat Dehydration
Treatments for dehydration include rehydrating methods, electrolyte replacement, and treating diarrhea or vomiting, if needed.
Rehydration methods include fluid replacement by drinking or IV. Drinking may not be possible for people suffering from diarrhea or vomiting, so fluids will be given intravenously. To do this, your doctor inserts a small IV tube in a vein in the arm. The solution provided through the IV is often a mix of water and electrolytes.
For those able to drink, the doctor will suggest drinking water along with an electrolyte-containing rehydration drink such as Gatorade or a similar sports drink. Children with dehydration are often directed to drink Pedialyte.
Homemade Rehydration Solution
If a sports drink isn't available, you can make your own rehydration solution using:
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 6 teaspoons of sugar
- 1 liter of water
Be absolutely certain that you are using an accurate measurement. Using too much salt or sugar can be dangerous.
Things to Avoid
Don't treat yourself by drinking soda, overly sweet drinks, or caffeine. These drinks can worsen dehydration.
Potential Complications of Untreated Dehydration
Untreated dehydration can lead to life-threatening complications, such as:
- heat exhaustion
- heat cramps
- heatstroke
- seizures due to electrolyte loss
- low blood volume
- kidney failure
- coma
How Can I Prevent Dehydration?
If you're ill, increase your fluid intake, especially if you're vomiting or having diarrhea constantly. If you can't hold down liquids, consult your doctor.
If you're going to exercise or play sports, drink 1 to 3 cups of water before beginning. At regular intervals during the workout, replace your fluids.
Dress cool in hot months and avoid being out in direct heat if you can avoid it.
Even if you aren't active, drink the recommended amount of fluids.
Article Sources:
- Dehydration danger for older adults. (2011, July 14). Retrieved from http://www.epa.gov/naturalevents/dehydration.html
- Electrolytes. (2008, August). Retrieved from http://www.merckmanuals.com/home/print/hormonal_and_metabolic_disorders/electrolyte_balance/electrolytes.html
- How do I know if I'm dehydrated. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtPrint/WSIHW000/24479/29730.html?hide=t&k=basePrint
- Mayo Clinic Staff. (2011, January 7). Dehydration. Retrieved from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dehydration/DS00561/METHOD=print
- Mayo Clinic Staff. (2010, July 30). Hyperhidrosis (excessive sweating): Causes. Retrieved fromhttp://www.mayoclinic.com/health/hyperhidrosis/DS01082/DSECTION=causes
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This series of posts has been focused on how to manage the home economy when it is powered by irregular income. It is my goal to help you eliminate the feast/famine lifestyle (especially the famine part!!!).
Before we focus on today's step, let's review the previous steps.
Step 1 – Recognize it! To avoid living the feast/famine lifestyle, you need to recognize that you are earning irregular income.
Step 2 – Determine monthly expenses It is important to understand how much income is necessary each month to ensure that the household operates smoothly and free from the feast/famine lifestyle.
Step 3 – Save up at least three months worth of expenses This is your buffer that absorbs the wild patterns of your customers! It allows you to live life smoothly without the feast/famine episodes!
Step 4 – Become personally debt-free and operate your business debt-free
What are the advantages of operating a business debt-free?
- Monthly expense load drops! There are no interest payments to make!
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- Breathing room. It is amazing how much stress a pile of debt brings on.
- When you spend your own real money, you will manage it better. I don't know why this is, but if I am spending someone else's money (i.e. the banks) I am much more susceptible to make a riskier decision! When I am spending my money, I am much more likely to do thorough due diligence before doing a deal!
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The Bush administration continues insisting any problems between the United States and Russia are entirely the fault of the Medvedev-Putin government. There was hostility towards Russia as a result of the war in Georgia, but most NATO nations are anxious to resume working with the Russian government rather than continuing hostility. The Bush administration, however, insists, "it is difficult for us to go back to business as usual, since the Russian military did actually attack another country. It's hard when you have Russian troops in another country against its will." This is the Bush view of reality, but, unfortunately, it is not reality.
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- UNHCR Uganda Factsheet (May 2017)
- Uganda Solidarity Summit on Refugees: Requirements for a Comprehensive Refugee Response in Uganda
- IASC Snapshot: Uganda's New Way of Working
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- Uganda: 2017 Refugee Humanitarian Needs Overview - South Sudan, Burundi and DRC Refugee Response Plans
- 2017 South Sudan Regional Refugee Response Plan Revised (May 2017)
- Horn of Africa cross-border drought action plan 2017: Required response to safeguard livestock-based livelihoods in cross-border areas of Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda, March – June 2017
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- The Government of Japan has decided to extend food aid totaling 2.01billion yen (approximately US$ 18.1 million) through the World Food Programme (WFP) to Darfur refugees and others in Sudan and Chad and to people in Kenya and Uganda facing serious food shortage caused by drought. Notes to this effect were exchanged on July 28 (Fri) in Rome between Mr. Yuji Nakamura, Japanese Ambassador to Italy, and Mr. John M. Powell, Deputy Executive Director of the WFP.
Even if Ugandan rebels operating in southern Sudan agree to stop fighting, the region is likely to suffer more raiding by renegade militias and bandits.
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This issue of Field Exchange features four field articles about community based therapeutic care of the severely malnourished, a type of programming that is increasingly being rolled out by humanitarian agencies.
The article by Josephine Querubin from ACF-USA is about a home based treatment (HT) programme in Upper Nile and Bahr el Ghazal in southern Sudan, introduced following drought and a large returnee influx. HT was adopted as previous experiences of using the centre based therapeutic feeding model had been poor with high defaulter rates and low coverage.
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Security situation in the country remain stable.
Incidence of robbery has increased in the urban areas especially in Kampala where an attempted robbery on a WHO staff resulted in a major road traffic accident
The security situation in the north is as it is reported by the northern team
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The peace talk between GoU and LRA rebels is continuing
Close relatives of Joseph Kony, Acholi elders and selected government officials visited and had discussions with the LRA in Garamba park …
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NABANGA, Sudan, July 30 (Reuters) - The leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels failed to appear at peace talks due to take place on the Sudan-Congo border on Sunday, instead sending his 14-year-old son as a gesture to placate mediators.
The rebels said Joseph Kony, who has lead the LRA uprising in northern Uganda for 19 years and is internationally wanted, would meet delegates from Uganda and southern Sudan at a remote clearing on the border on Monday.
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SUDAN/CONGO BORDER, July 29 (Reuters) - The deputy leader of Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) ventured out of the bush on Saturday for a meeting on the Sudan-Congo border with a delegation seeking to persuade the group to agree to peace.
Laughing and cracking jokes, south Sudan's Vice President Riek Machar -- who wants to broker a deal to end the two-decade insurgency -- sat under a tree in a plastic chair to receive the LRA's internationally wanted second in command, Vincent Otti.
The LRA has previously launched attacks in …
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Yokohama, 28 July 2006 - WFP today welcomed an announcement by the Government of Japan to donate US$17.3 million (JPY 2.01 billion) to assist the people of four African countries that are currently ravaged by conflict or drought.
This week's report covers the following sectors: Agriculture, Coordination and Support Services, Education, Food, Health, Infrastructure and Rehabilitation, Protection / Human Rights / Rule of Law, Refugees and IDPs, Security, Shelter and Non-food Items, Water & Sanitation
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Families of LRA rebels and traditional leaders will meet this week before high-level talks restart next week.
By Tristan McConnell | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
KAMPALA, UGANDA - Despite getting off to a rocky start this month, peace talks to bring an end to the brutal 19-year war in northern Uganda were adjourned this week with mediator Riek Machar citing "substantial progress."
The talks between the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Ugandan government are still regarded as the best chance in years to bring an end to the war.
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|Jan 8 2009, 09:36 PM Post #1
|Well when i start my metro the belt squeals like hell. Then it will go aways after about 30 seconds. then if i hit the brakes it squeals again. and when i turn the headlights or any accessories on the belt squeals and the headlights and dash lights dim for about 30 seconds? the altenator bad?
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|Jan 8 2009, 09:50 PM Post #2
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First the basics.............
Check battery terminals for corrosion or looseness.
Load test battery and replace if bad.
Remove that alternator main wire, clean connection, reinstall.
Test alternator with voltmeter.
Finally, get rid of that old belt and replace it with a Goodyear Gatorback alternator belt. Available at AutoZone or Check here........
|Jan 8 2009, 10:38 PM Post #3
|Also check the belt tension. They need to be fairly tight to not squeal in my experience. Manual says .024"-.031" @ 22 lbs pressure, tested in the middle of the front belt run.
|Jan 9 2009, 12:47 AM Post #4
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|I had a similar problem with mine. I just had to have a friend put all his weight onto the alt while i tightened it. It never squeaked after that.
|Jan 9 2009, 12:51 AM Post #5
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|either tighten or replace the belt. same thing happened is my gfs car a while back, all it needed was a good tightening
|Jan 9 2009, 10:30 AM Post #6
|Put some coolant dye in the radiator and check waterpump to see if it is starting to leak.The You can check it by buying a penlite with a blue lens..It may be leaking out the pee hole on the bottom or from the gasket..Loosen the timing cover and check in there too..Also it may be getting oil on it from the crank,cam seal or the oil pan leaking ...
|Jan 9 2009, 08:25 PM Post #7
I have the squeel at startup but not the other times. I just bought a Gatorback belt on eBay this week for under $8 shipped. The seller had a few more left. Look up the part number somewhere like www.autozone.com and then search eBay Motors for that part number.
|Jan 10 2009, 03:08 PM Post #8
|Mine did the same thing last winter (had the original belt too). I replaced it with that cheap AutoZone belt. It worked until the next morning. Tightend it down further and it never came back. Did the same thing with the Goodyear belt I have this winter. Cured. I heard these models are notorious for this problem.
|Jan 10 2009, 03:10 PM Post #9
Awesome. That's about what I paid for mine from Parts Plus online. Let me know, however, how that belt works out for you. The guy at the local import shop dislikes the criss-cross design. He recommended a Gates belt from NAPA. So far, I'm keeping the Gatorback.
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The first suspect is described as 25-30 years old, standing 5'2" tall, weighing 130-150 pounds with braided hair. He was wearing a white jacket at the time of the shooting. The second suspect is said to be a black male with braids and was wearing a white t-shirt.
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th400 basic setup
Can anyone help with information about the basic setup of the TH400 gearbox.
We are in the UK and have been supplied with a new UK built sailplane winch with a new chevy 8.2 litre engine driving through a "new" TH400 gearbox.
We believe we are having problems with the gearbox changing down at too high a speed when reducing speed and consequently shifting down too hard but the supplier insists there is nothing wrong with the gearbox because he has supplied about 50 similar systems, although he admits he does not know how the gearbox works.
There is no tachometer and no milometer installed, there is no identification plate on the gearbox.
I understand these gearboxes were last made in about 1990.
It has an adjustable vacuum modulator adjusted fully out, we dare not yet touch the governor, it is still under warranty
My questions are:-
1 Is it possible that this gearbox has been kept in store in the USA since manufacture, or is it more likely to be a reconditioned unit?
2 When the gearboxes were originally built were they modified inside to suit a particular car/truck or were they all identical apart from the makers improvements?
3 If there were modifications to suit the car, would they have significantly affected the gear change speeds and softness?
Thanks in advance for your help.
colin milner
th400 basic setup
Colin,the unit is more than likely remanufactured,as opposed to being new,then stored.
Transmissions are calibrated for specific vehicles,of course,but was this unit calibrated for your particular needs,I don't know. Since the supplier has 50 unit sales under his belt,he should be able to answer this question.
There are many modifications that can be done to this unit,as with most.
Again knowing what may have been done would be helpful.
I would think this company should have tech support for their units.
Knowing what the vacuum is doing during your concerns,may help as well,as in could there be a leak.
I really don't know what a sailplane winch is,or how it is used,relative to the trans. If you like, a further explanation on it's function may help with diagnosis.
Look forward to your future post.
Many thanks for your answers. The winch is just a drum with about 1000 yards of steel cable on it driven by the engine and automatic gearbox so that the cable pulls in fast enough to launch the sailplane.
So we accellerate the sailplane in about 5 seconds to 60 mph and then as the sailplane gets higher the drum is slowed down to keep the sailplane speed constant.
The winch is stationary and the driver just has a throttle and a lever for selecting neutral or drive, all other gear options are inaccessible.
We do not know of any modifications carried out in the gearbox , and I have a feeling that none have been done.
The gearbox starts in 1st and gets into 3rd before the sailplane is off the ground, all this is ok, but as we reduce throttle to stop the glider speeding up in the top half of the launch, the gearbox changes down into 2nd and jerks the cable and sometimes breaks the cable.
What we would like to know is have we got a gearbox which has been designed to change down gear at too high a speed, we would like it to stay in 3rd once it is there and not risk changing down and breaking the cable, we think it is doing about 2000 rpm under half throttle when it changes down , is this what you would expect.
Once again, many thanks for your interest.
colin milner
So as the plane gets higher of the ground, you throttle back the engine and the trans downshifts from 3rd to 2nd???
It sounds as though the transmission thinks that you arebringing the engine back down to idle and therefore it brings the trans down into 2nd and eventually into 1st gear.
The400 trans was last used by GM in the trucks in 1990, it was replaced by the 4 speed 4l80e trans.
If there was a handle that controlled the upshifts and downshifts, you could install a manual shift kit into the trans and it wouldnt downshift into 2nd on you.
To me, the problem sounds like a simple adjustment in the trans control.
Question, You throttle down to keep the plane speed constant, then the trans downshifts. So being in 2nd gear, this would allow slack to form between the winch and the plane correct? Do you break the cable increasing the throttle to take up the slack?
is there any way to launch teh plane by not throttleing back the engine and by just releasing teh cable from teh plane while under throttle?
here are the gear ratios 1st gear 2.48:1, 2nd 1.48:1 3rd 1:1 or direct drive.
I bet that since its powered by a 502, that you have spend a decent amount of money on this power winch. I would be all over the person who sold you the winch, esp. since it is STILL under warranty. I am sure his other 50 installed winches dont break the cables.
It sounds to me that you need to adjust that vacuum governor. While you are under throttle accelerating the plane, the trans goes through the gears normally, then as you back off the throttle(thus creating more engine vacuum) the trans downshifts because it thinks the engine is returning to idle.
I would get that vacuum modulator adjusted, being adjusted completly out doesnt sound correct to me.
I always thought a thm 400 had an electric kickdown for downshifts.
th400 basic setup
Colin,2000 rpm on coast should not cause this trans to downshift.
I wonder, is the governor causing this,and I'll get back to the gov in a minute.
If there is no tech support with this trans,and this is on your shoulders,can you do a line pressure test?
This would tell us the condition of the pump,detent circut, and help to narrow down the possibilities.
But simple stuff first. Do you have a vacuum gauge? If so what is the vac doing when this trans downshifts?
Is there electricity to the trans for passing gear,I doubt it,you wouldn't need it for this application,but you never know. But if so,the detent connector[passing gear] is on, what would be the drivers side of the trans.
Like I said,doubt it's there but if it is,disconnect it and see if it makes a difference.
Now back to the governor. On the passenger side,there is a four bolt cover,towards the rear of trans. This is where the gov is housed.
I would remove that cover,pull the gov out and measure the shinny lands.
The lands should be smooth and measure .800 Not much wiggle room here.
A governor that measures .799 would be acceptable,but no less.
Please keep me informed. Dana
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that thing sounds awesome!!
I will post a photograph when I get a good one.
Yes as we back off the throttle the cable whips when it changes down from 3rd to second. We do not have chance to take up slack, the power is there all the time because the guy in the sailplane is still climbing, but because of the cable angle the drum has to slow down to maintain the same speed for the sailplane.The sailplane still has half of the climb to complete at this stage,so we have to keep some power on.
I am sure the electric kick down is disconnected if there is one.
colin milner
Yes I have ordered a vacuum gauge and will get some figures asap.
No electrics to the box. Connection, drivers side half way along with no wire on.
Will check the governor, thanks for the figures on the diameter.
colin milner
why not just run a full manual shift tranny? Shift the gears as you wish?
Dont worry how old you are... it is the mileage on your body that adds up.
Not quite a 502 but the same result. BTW....glider flying is a blast!!!! Done it 3 times. Awesome.
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th400 basic setup
Crosley,I was wondering the same thing.But I went back and checked, Colin states in post #3 that the driver has a lever for selecting neutral or drive,all other gear options are inaccessible.
Perhaps not the unit itself,but maybe the lever will not physically travel past drive???
This may explain why the manufacture declined a manual shift unit.
Of course this is not to say this couldn't be modified.
Any thing can be modified , it's just steel and aluminum.
If vacuum drops low enough at the modulator the t-400 will down shift out of 3rd gear.
An adjustable mod may help , I dont know.
Never dealt with this setup. I've Fooled with boats , air & water (prop) driven .
Dont worry how old you are... it is the mileage on your body that adds up.
That launch really got my attention. I googled v8 sailplane winch and found this:
Winch Launches
If you can, try to get a flight at a gliding club which uses winch-launching. Yes, gliders are actually winched into the sky on the end of a long cable. The winch is powered by a powerful motor, often a V8, and it pulls the glider up like a giant kite. Sometimes the cable breaks, but this is quite routine and simply results in a short flight and a bit of inconvenience for the ground crew! Come to think of it, this situation could be considered a thrill ride for an unsuspecting passenger! Firstly, the jolt when the wire snaps. Secondly, the fairly sudden nose-down movement of the glider as the pilot makes sure the airspeed stays up. Sudden but smooth.
Now, why are even normal winch launches thrilling? Because you go up like a fighter jet, that's why. The nose of the glider points skywards at an angle of 45 degrees or so, and you reach release altitude in less than 30 seconds. Even an experienced glider pilot tends to enjoy it time after time! I certainly did.
An even more thrilling form of launch is rarely done now-a-days. It was called a reflex launch. The tow rope, yes a rope not a wire or cable, had a bit of stretch in it. It was attached to the glider's release point at one end, and the other end was attached to a powerful car. A loop was laid out to set a certain amount of slack in the rope, before the car went charging off down the airstrip. TWANG. I remember seeing a Blanik L13 with 2 people on board lunge off the ground in maybe 3 meters (10 feet) and commence climbing like a home-sick angel. Ah those were the days.
Oh yeah!
About 20 years ago I spent a weekend gliding with both air and ground tows at Euroa Vic (1,1/2 hrs north of Melbourne). The ground tow sat on a 3 ton truck and comprised a 455 Olds,t400 and M/benz 1418 diff with a drum on each wheel and independent brakes. I remember clearly being told that the trans only used 2nd gear and even in the plane a kilometre away you could hear the 455 load up against the converter - perhaps this could work for Colin with a full manual valve body.
BTW, to Colin and myself a th400 has the kickdown wiring on the PASSENGER side, so I respectfully ask that people consider rhd applications and use a simple left or right description (as viewed from the drivers seat), thanks. Ian.
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Remember in the old cartoons, when Bugs Bunny fell off a 90-story building and then emerged shaking his head with a funny little rattle?
That's kind of what I feel like.
Remember in the old cartoons, when Bugs Bunny fell off a 90-story building and then emerged shaking his head with a funny little rattle?
That's kind of what I feel like.
Those of you who saw me at South by Southwest this year know that I've dyed my hair pink. *
Along with What do you do?, I find Why did you dye your hair pink? an unanswerable question. But if I can't answer it. I might be able to address it.
(By the way, if you're newish here, the babe in the photo is not me. She sure is cute, though, isn't she?)
The simplest answer is that a head of pink hair signals to any and all that I don't work for a Real Company.
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Some of those things are good and some bad, and most a mixed bag. I had a lot of good years working with companies, and I'm not knocking it. But pink hair is a very visible signal that I'm not doing that right now.
There's a huge category of things you can't do in a Real Company because it Wouldn't Be Professional.
Some of these make sense, like No Getting Smashed at Lunch, or No Sexually Harassing Adorable Eddie in Accounting, Even Though He Is Admittedly Extremely Cute.
Some of them don't really have any logical underpinning at all. Like No Having Pink Hair.
Of course, I'd be allowed to have pink hair if I just told people it was an incompetent dye job. That I was trying for red hair, but my hairdresser is an idiot.
I could probably get away with that for years, explaining to new managers as they came in, "Oh, no, it's not pink. It doesn't look pink to you, does it? It's red."
So I could have pink hair if it wasn't my intention to have pink hair.
This is getting at the reason(s) why I don't want to work for Real Companies any more.
This is the real reason: I like having pink hair because pink hair is bright and pretty and special. It makes my little boy especially happy. It's our own little bit of Sesame Street right at home.
Pink is a pretty color and now I get to have it all the time. And if I feel like a change of pace, when the pink wears off I can have turquoise, or sky blue, or violet.
Of course it does, silly!
If you can't dye your hair pink at the moment, you can still write like someone who does.
Sorry to go dark like that for ages and ages here on Remarkable Communication. I was, let's just say, insanely busy with the Marketing for Nice People course.
(Which is going AMAZINGLY. Tip: when you define your customers as nice people, that's what you get. Our students are a giant stack of awesome.)
But the major huge chunk of work is done and I'll be around more regularly, at least until the next insanity rolls along. I miss you guys so much when I don't hang out with you here.
Footnote: * Actually, it's more accurate to say that I'm dyeing it pink, as no one seems to sell permanent pink hair dye. Which is sort of fun as I can try out different variations of pink and find the one I like best. Right now I'm sporting a sort of cherry coke color with hot pink highlights. Most enjoyable.
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"I went to sleep with gum in my mouth and now there's gum in my hair and when I got out of bed this morning I tripped on the skateboard and by mistake I dropped my sweater in the sink while the water was running and I could tell it was going to be a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day."
Don't get me wrong. I'm not knocking bad moods.
Sometimes you just want to go ahead and let yourself feel foul. There's no law that says we have to be Cheery Mary Sunshine every day, and who would want to be?
But when you've got stuff to do, a crummy mood doesn't help. It burns up all your energy and it ties up your mental bandwidth. You spend all your focus on the injustices you've been subjected to, and none of it doing your Big Magnificent Project.
When I had a day job, I had the luxury of cultivating my crappy moods. I could nurse a funk for days or weeks, keeping little lists of how screwed up They were and how deliciously righteous and correct I was.
But when someone else isn't paying for that, it just gets in my way. Mama's got work to do, and that ain't helping.
I found myself in just such a mood last weekend, when I needed to be planning my
world domination work week. I didn't have a lot of time to indulge the horribles, so here's how I kicked them to the curb.
Let's face it, you're in a crappy mood for a reason.
Probably not the reason you think, but a reason.
So before you try to fix anything, break out some paper and your favorite pen and start complaining.
Write about why you think you're feeling so foul. Write about what pulled your bad mood trigger. Write about what made you angry. Write about what hurt your feelings. Write about what's got you frustrated. Write about who you hate even though you're supposed to love (or at least like) them.
The most important instruction is Don't be reasonable. You do enough of that already. Hush the voice in your head that tells you to quit being a crybaby. Go ahead and whine the blues.
Take it a little over the top if you want to. Or a lot over the top. Compare your bad haircut to nuclear holocaust. No one can see you, so wallow as much as you want to.
(P.S., remember, none of this works if there's any chance in the universe that someone will see your ranting and raving. So be sure you keep your journal 100% secure from other eyes. Burn the pages if you have to.)
You can read more about the fine art of journal writing/tantrums right here.
I won't call it exercise, in case that's a bad word for you.
But get your body moving. Get your heart beating a little bit faster than it usually does.
You can do this with the
door stop exercise machine in the basement. If the weather's ok where you are, you could just take a nice walk around the block. Go for a bike ride. Dance to silly music. Do Taebo kicks. Practice your pole dancing. Whatever.
Don't think about all the advice about how exercise is good for your heart and lungs and skin and prevents Alzheimer's and high blood pressure and reduces the incidence of virtually every kind of disease by about half. Even though that is true, it's just going to make you feel worse.
Get moving because it feels good. If it's not feeling great, maybe you're pushing it a little too hard. Slow down. Notice the way the blood feels when it's racing around in your body. Notice that your legs and butt actually like moving around. Enjoy.
If you can manage it, try not to think about anything other than what it feels like to move.
You don't have to do this forever. Maybe 15 or 20 minutes. If that's scary, you could make it 10.
Whether it's the Jonas Brothers or ABBA or The Chipmunks, I won't tell.
Listen to something that made you really happy when you were 10. Or to something that makes you feel like you're 10 now. Anything that puts a goofy smile on your face will work. It doesn't have to be dumb, but you get a few bonus points if it is.
Conveniently, you can do this while you're moving around. It makes the time go really fast.
You might even be inclined to move around for 5 more minutes. If you really want to, go ahead. If you're just doing it to be virtuous or to shrink your gigantic thighs, though, don't.
All this is about taking care of the part of yourself that still has tantrums, even though you've learned to call them something else.
The journaling part is about putting your feelings into language. Some of us got good at that when we were children; most of us didn't. When we can't express our feelings, they back up on us and gunk everything up. So express.
(Maybe language isn't your main way of expressing yourself. It might be paint or tattoo ink or interpretive dance. If you're not a writer, use the medium that works for you.)
The movement part is about being a physical creature. You evolved to move while you were processing thoughts and feelings, and your brain works better when your body's doing something. Plus shaking your booty produces endorphins and all that, which just feels good.
No one's asking you to be Lance Armstrong here. Don't kill yourself. In fact, a nice slow walk works fine.
The music part is about playing and being silly and making a joyful noise. Whether it's Aretha or the Wiggles that make you happy, music can take you to another place.
(I'm partial to classic disco. It's hard to feel bad when It's Raining Men, at least for me.)
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The quote at the beginning of the post is from Judith Viorst's Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
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Are you trying to do something hard and complicated? Maybe it's lose weight or build a business online or improve your Star Wars origami skills.
Along the way, you might have sought out some advice. It could be advice from someone you know, free advice from blogs or the library, or a paid "how to" product.
If your Hard Thing has enough pieces that need to get put together, and you don't quite know how all of those pieces work, the thing is probably giving you a giant headache.
Advice is swirling around you like a sandstorm. Each guru is competing for your attention and action. Everyone has a surefire system for you.
Your head gets more and more jammed up with conflicting information, even as the gurus are trying to get you unjammed by giving you a single path to take. They use their authority and a mountain of case studies to grab your attention and try to get you focused.
"Obey me or fail. It's your choice."
If you don't learn how to navigate all this well-meaning advice, you risk getting too exhausted to go on before you've reached your goal.
Here are some tips I've found useful for finding a path through the wilderness:
There are many paths up the mountain, but if you try to put a foot on every one, you're not going to get very far.
(If anyone knows the source of that paraphrased quote, will you let me know in the comments?)
For almost every complex endeavor, there's a limited number of things you need to do, but lots of different ways you might do them.
Whatever path you're on, you're going to get to a rocky, annoyingly difficult spot and think to yourself, "This can't really be the path. This isn't a path at all. Is that giant boulder really supposed to be right there in the middle of it?"
Sorry. There's a giant boulder in the middle of all the paths. You can get a good map and a really spiffy compass, but you're the one who has to scramble over the boulder. With very few exceptions, a new and better map will just take you a few miles out of your way to circle back to the same damned rock.
Find a map-maker you trust and follow her map to the end goal. It's generally a good idea to make sure that someone else has used this map to get to where you'd like to go.
Starting over with a new map is hardly ever quicker, even though it's always tempting.
Learning and taking action are two very different modes. If you're going to do your Hard Thing, you want to honor them both.
Action without learning is usually fruitless. It's too likely to leave you wandering around without direction or purpose.
Learning without action is definitely fruitless, assuming you actually want to do your Hard Thing. Sometimes the dream and the mental challenge can make you feel good, which might be enough. If that's why you're doing it, go ahead and be honest with yourself about it.
Assuming you want to take the action route, you need to consciously plan out that moment of transition. If you've picked up some advice, whether it's a paid information product or a blog or a free email course, take a separate step to translate the advice into activities. Go through each lesson and figure out what next action you should be taking, then figure out when you plan to take that action. Create a worksheet for yourself and fill it out.
I can't tell you how much I learned from Teaching Sells in the process of creating worksheets and next actions for other students to take. When you sit down and take the time to map out how you're going to translate learning to action, you'll find yourself much less overwhelmed.
If there are lots of individual components you need to master, you may need to string together different pieces of advice. You don't necessarily need to get a Big Overarching Map from anyone else, but if the system you're using doesn't have one, be sure to create one for yourself.
Understand what the pieces are (even if you're completely clueless about how to do them) and scribble out some rough ideas about how you might put them together.
Plan out your cycles of learning and doing. They'll both seem to be taking too long to produce any results. That's ok. If you're consistently alternating between learning and doing, and if you're following a decent map, you'll get there.
When you're in the middle of it, it always feels like you'll never get to the end of the path. That's how you know it's a path worth being on.
I was talking with Havi the other night about her frustration with gurus. She's spent a lot of time getting clients unstuck who aren't moving forward with their businesses because they can't complete some seemingly necessary step like creating a USP or developing their personal brand.
Her advice is often to just keep moving past the stuck spot.
Sometimes there are spots on the map that you won't be able to use. They're not suited to your project, or your personality, or the resources you bring. Sometimes you need to blaze a few pieces of your own trail.
Sometimes you've actually completed the step already, but it doesn't look like you thought it would, so you wait around trying to figure out what comes next.
If you spend more than two weeks feeling stuck about a particular step on your map, try moving forward without it. If you skip it and things start working again, that step might not be one you need. Or it may be a piece you can fill in later, when you know more.
Learning matters, but when it keeps you from doing, that's a red flag. While you don't want to bounce from map to map, it's also not helpful to use a map that's inscribed in stone. (Too damned heavy, for one thing.)
At the end of the day, any map is really a model for you to write your own map on top of it.
So what Hard Thing are you working on? How's it going? Are you stuck or are you rocking and rolling? Let us know about it in the comments.
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I miss you guys so much! The problem with producing one post a week is that if you miss a couple, you go dark for an awfully long time.
This is just a quickie to let you know where the heck I've been. I've got some nifty post ideas, so you'll start hearing from me again very soon.
I became a partner in Brian Clark's wonderful Teaching Sells, which I originally joined as a member in 2007, about 45 seconds after it first opened.
If you don't know about Teaching Sells, it's an online course that shows you how to create the next generation of information products. Beyond ebooks and teleseminars, the Teaching Sells model shows you how to create interactive learning environments, so you can teach anything from weight loss to cold-weather koi pond gardening, in a way that lets you serve your customer/learners with much richer, more useful education.
I've been helping to expand the original course content and make it even more user-friendly, including creating audio recordings of the original articles, and worksheets to get folks moving through the content and taking action.
It's fun, fun work, and it's very time consuming. One of the cool side-effects, though, is that I'm learning the Teaching Sells methods in much more depth. (If you've bought an information product yourself and you're not quite using it, try teaching it to someone else! It's a fantastic exercise.)
One upside is that this partnership has allowed me to completely transition out of the corporate world. (Translation: I quit my day job.) I can't even tell you the flood of energy and creativity this has given me. And it's given me the bandwidth to say yes to a bunch of great client projects, which always gives new perspective.
The downside is what I am not-so-fondly calling "launch strep," brought on by too many late nights. Everyone in my house got it, so we've been a very pleasant bunch to be around. We've all taken our meds and seem to be well again, fortunately. Three cheers for modern medicine.
I'm giving a talk on blogging this weekend (actually it was yesterday, and it was so much fun) to Yanik Silver's Underground conference.
It's been a long time since I went to a conference and didn't see any familiar faces. (The only two I recognized on sight were Perry Belcher, who's got an amazing story about how he became The Twitter Guy, and Facebook goddess Mari Smith.) This crowd is great, though, and so receptive to learning about how social media and Internet marketing can go hand in hand.
Maybe I'm just a starry-eyed optimist (ok, I definitely am), but I think the Internet Marketing crowd is coming around to the "quality content" point of view. There will always be some who slap together mediocre content to try to seduce the search engines, but the case for genuinely remarkable writing is becoming stronger and clearer. Which just makes me so happy I could giggle.
OK, I can't let myself ramble on, as I want to get to Yanik's young entrepreneur's lunch (as a Tired Old Lady entrepreneur, I suppose my role will be to give advice and encouragement). I just didn't want to go another day without letting you know how much I miss you guys, and writing for Remarkable Communication. I'll be back soon, so keep the faith.
I've found it: the magic bullet. The bass-o-matic technique that solves all problems, cures all ills, makes its own sauce, whitens and freshens your teeth (and laundry) while you sleep.
I'm going to share my super ninja secret for moving forward when I'm stuck (it works even better when combined with Havi's destuckifier), finding focus, lighting up the escape route when the cabin starts to fill with smoke, and giving me the ninja strength to punch my way through obstacles and make things happen.
This is the equivalent of Beatrix Kiddo's Five Point Exploding Palm Technique. It's so powerful and dangerous that you might want to burn your computer after reading this blog post. Or at least, I don't know, clear your browser cache.
Start writing stuff down.
(From this point forward I'm going to get all bossy and tell you what I do. Feel free to slavishly follow my model or to ignore it and make your own.)
I'm not talking about making lists, although that works too. I'm talking about journaling.
(Normally I despise the practice of making nouns into verbs, but journaling is just different for me from writing or writing in a journal. Feel free to throw rotten apples at me, I understand.)
Journaling is the act of getting all the gunk out of your brain and onto paper.
Journaling isn't really writing. Writing involves editing and shaping and making careful word choices.
Journaling is more of a purge. We all have a lot of crap rattling around in our heads. Unworthy thoughts. Petty obsessions. Stupid fears.
Everyone. The Dalai Lama, Pema Chödrön, everybody. Murky, ugly mental gunk is part of being a human being. Most of us walk along desperately hoping that no one ever finds out what awful people we truly are.
Don't worry. The nicest people you know are secretly even more horrible than you. (Hard to believe, I know.)
Journaling lets some air in. Getting the gunk on paper makes it suddenly look not all that bad after all. And writing down all the horribleness robs it of its power. Which leaves you free and clear to master the universe.
Use physical pen and paper. Yes, even if your handwriting is atrocious. Yes, even if you hate to write by hand. If you are physically able to write by hand, do.
When you write with a pen on a piece of paper, you can't go back and change a word because "gee, I didn't really mean I hate my little brother." You're stuck with what's there. It's a tiny commitment to get the true first thing out of your mind and onto the page.
If you need to use a keyboard and screen, turn the monitor off. You want to remove your ability to go back and edit. Journaling is all about uncensoring yourself and freeing up your need to be "nice" or "appropriate" or even "sane."
You don't have to get all fancy and use a Moleskine or whatever the cool kids are using. You could use a fountain pen, which is what I like (this is a good beginner's pen), or a .19 Bic. Doesn't matter. But do use something that's as comfortable as possible and lets you write quickly. Think flow.
Write without stopping. When you're journaling, keep the pen moving. Even if you have to write this is stupid this is stupid this is stupid this is stupid this is stupid until you come up with something to say.
Journaling is not about consideration. It's about moving too fast for your Inner Grown-Up to keep up.
Embrace the horrible. You're de-gunking, remember? There's going to be yukky stuff in there. Racist, homophobic, heterophobic, boring, immature, petty, mean-spirited, cruel, violent, bitter, self-pitying. downright evil. Name any quality you don't want to have, it's gonna come out.
What you find out when you do this is that you can write the words
I wish a nuclear bomb would destroy all life on earth so my assbag neighbor would melt and die
and nothing bad happens. No nuclear bombs. No destruction. No lightning bolt smiting you dead.
Plus, the feeling goes away. Or at least it eases up a little. You may find yourself starting to laugh about how out of proportion it all is.
You air it out. And when you air it out, the demon loses its ability to slow you down and confuse you. Life works better when you're not slowed down and confused.
Julia Cameron's Artist's Way recommends three "morning pages" of freewriting every day for a month. I've done that a bunch of times, and it's a great exercise, very freeing.
I usually journal when I'm feeling blocked up. There's a particular sense in my gut when I'm not moving freely and I'm unfocused and crabby. That's when I know I've got some gunk to clear out.
Sometimes I need to journal every day. Other times, I might go a month or two without needing it.
Lately I've had enough big projects to juggle that I've had to get a little more focused about goals. Plus I gained about 15 pounds that, for some reason, don't look all that good on me.
So I'm doing Dave Navarro's Damn Serious New Year's process for some goals. Every day I journal a page (or two, if I feel like it) on progress and stuck places and looking for potential gunk. It keeps my attention on my goals and reminds me why I want them.
And it helps me see that I am getting traction and the wheels are moving, even if the movement is subtle. Which is huge. I don't know anyone strong enough to keep taking action on goals if they don't think that action will bear fruit. Journaling lets you see the little baby steps of progress, and those will build momentum if you let them.
Do you ever journal? What tools do you like to use? Paper or pixels? Fancy notebook or scrap paper? Do you journal every day? Do you keep your journals or destroy them?
Let us know your ninja journaling techniques in the comments!
Halloween doesn't get the respect it deserves. It's a great holiday to tweak your thinking and consider unconventional tactics. As we try on new identities and new ways to coerce strangers into giving us candy, maybe it's time to dust off some of our outdated ideas.
Today, I thought I'd take a look at what the legendary character Sweeney Todd can teach us about blogging, marketing and communication.
A little out-of-the-box thinking let Sweeney Todd establish multiple streams of income.
First, he challenged outdated assumptions about pricing. Instead of toiling day after day to make a few shillings for a shave and a haircut, he cut his customers' throats, and was able to take all the money they might have in their pockets. This simple move was able to increase his average transaction size by 500-1000%.
But Sweeney Todd wasn't just an early challenger to stale ideas about pricing and value. His business partner Mrs. Lovett developed a truly creative add-on. She turned a liability (dead bodies to be disposed of) into an asset, by cutting the victims up and making them into meat pies, generating a collateral source of revenue. Sadly, we don't have the precise numbers for this bold lateral move, but some estimates put the increased ROI at as much as 150%.
Sweeney Todd didn't just chase his victims down in an alley and ambush them. These would have been amateurish moves, unworthy of his creative intelligence.
Instead, he offered something of real value (a shave and/or haircut) that his market was looking for. He was able to keep his price point extremely attractive, given his assertive commitment to the back end, which allowed him to recoup those costs as the customer moved through the funnel (or trap door, as the case may be).
Marketers call this kind of attractive loss leader an "ethical bribe," although you probably don't get to call it ethical if you in fact murder your customer afterwards.
Before you try the Sweeney Todd method yourself, remember the significant downside: cost of acquisition of new readers. Since repeat business (never mind word of mouth) is impossible when your customers are all dead, the Sweeney Todd method requires marketing at the top of its game to bring new readers in the door.
For a blogger, this might translate into Google AdWords, banner ads, or you might even consider moving offline into direct mail. Guest posting strategies are probably not in the cards, as most bloggers are uncomfortable with aggressive strategies like murder and cannibalism.
However, Twitter may be an option. Just be sure you mix up your Tweets with interesting personal comments. A steady diet of "oops, just slaughtered another reader" gets tiresome, and you'll lose followers quickly.
Happy Halloween!
Two quick notes before you get the second installation of the "7 Dumb Things."
The Age of Conversation is an insane project managed by Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton, in which 237
cats bloggers and marketing pros from 16 countries were herded brought together on a collaborative project about this new social media conversation thing we're all part of.
The first Age of Conversation book was a compilation from 100 authors. It was published last year, and raised nearly $15,000 for Variety, the international children's charity. This year's successor, creatively named Age of Conversation 2, goes on sale today. All proceeds (less printing and shipping) will again go to Variety, the children's charity.
Here's a little snippet from my chapter. I'm going to pick up a couple of copies, they'll make great pass-arounds for some colleagues who need a rapid-fire introduction to the new world of content marketing and social media conversation.
The new corporate message doesn't flow smoothly from PR agency to journalist to media consumer, or from advertiser to the compliant masses. The new message gets passed around by amateurs. It has to be tougher, smarter, more resilient.
Here's a test for you: If you get into a cab anywhere in the world and tell your organization's message to the cab driver, will he get it? Would he repeat it?
(Note, I don't get any royalties or anything from this one. We're making sure as much revenue as possible gets to Variety.)
Click here to order Age of Conversation 2
Chuck Westbrook has a great project going to get more exposure for blogs that have terrific content but no readers. This one is dear to my heart, as I know exactly what it's like to work hard on content and then have eight people actually reading it.
Chuck's gathering a group of bloggers to add a new blog to their reader every two weeks. No commitment to link, comment, promote, or anything else unless you feel moved to do so. We're just checking in on a promising new blog and seeing what they have to say. Two weeks down the line, we move on to another blog.
If this sounds like a cool idea to you, check out Chuck's post for more details. (And spread the word!)
(P.S. If your own blog needs a little boost, this is a terrific way to lend a hand to a fellow blogger and expand your own network.)
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I haven't done one of these in way too long. Here's a collection of tasty links I've found that I think you will enjoy. I'm hoping to reach out more in the blog over the coming months, so look for more of these!
Please join me in wishing Remarkable Communication a happy birthday! I started the blog exactly a year ago, on August 11, 2007.
You'll get a real post later this week, but today I hope you'll indulge me as I look back over the year. I'm not one whose blog rocketed out of the ground–I've build traffic slowly and steadily, and I'm just now rounding the bend of 1,000 subscribers. (Welcome and thank you to all!)
Growth online is rarely linear, and I have some ambitious expectations for the year to come. (Along those lines, I want to start posting somewhat more frequently again as soon as my mysterious project X is completed. I'm thinking Septemberish, but stay tuned.)
On August 15, I wrote a post called Setting the Table, in which I said "It's been kind of eerie in here as I'm working on providing a reasonable baseline of content before I try to drive any traffic in. It's a little like setting the table before a big party. Who's going to show up? Will everyone get along and have a fabulous time? How drunk are they going to get?"
The next day, Seth Godin was my first commenter, on a post called The Joys of Eclectic Blogging. I will confess that this cheered me up quite a bit.
(By the way, Seth, if you'd like to make that an annual tradition and say howdy in the comments, that would be just fantastic. Let's see, how can I set some bait that might make that happen . . . umm, Triiibes, otaku, permission, Squidoo and Little MissMatched. OK, it's a cheap trick, but it's done with love.)
On September 6, Brian Clark showed up in the comments on a post called Make Something for Its Own Sake, getting me all flustered and pleased. Copyblogger linked to that post on the 9th, which was even nicer.
Since Brian was nice enough to link to me, I thought the least I could do was to follow his advice and try to think of at least one decent headline. So I wrote a post called 5 Editor's Secrets to Help You Write Like a Pro, which was the first post I wrote to get any significant StumbleUpon traffic (it still does).
The now-infamous Naomi Dunford found Remarkable Communication right around the middle of September and showed up for the first time in my comments. She proceeded to start a little blog on home business marketing that instantly trounced mine for traffic and subscribers, but I love her anyway.
On September 20, without making any effort to do so, I wrote my first post that got any significant amount of Google traffic, called How to Tell a Story. This one still ranks very nicely for "how to tell a story" on Google, and still sees traffic every day from that search.
On October 5, Seth Godin linked to a post that I had written to try to attract his attention, so I guess that worked pretty well. It was called Transparency and the Meatball Sundae and it brought me a nice whomp of traffic and picked up a few hundred subscribers for remarkable communication.
I'd walk you through the rest of the year, but I'm fairly sure that violates the Geneva Convention's rules on torture. Here are just a few more highlights:
A post called We Are Not Powerless revealed to the world just how big a bleeding heart I actually am. Helping kids who are in bad situations is a big part of what drives me, and it actually provides me with a lot of fuel to grow my business. I try to keep the do-goodery to a minimum here, but I'm kind of leaning toward creating a post along these lines every September 17 to keep it real and remember what I'm doing it for.
My relationship marketing series has slowly grown a nice following. This post, written in November, was the first: Create a Human Connection.
The Ten Commandments of New Social Media was pure social media bait, and it worked–I got a great flow of Stumble traffic for this, as well some nice links. I also happen to think it was a pretty decent post.
In March, I screwed up my courage and sent Brian Clark a tweet to ask if he might maybe some day, if he got sick or broke his fingers or something, maybe want a guest post? To my happy shock, he asked me if I'd be willing to write for Copyblogger regularly. More cheer. My first post there was 3 Sure-Fire Steps for Beating the Boring Content Blues. Writing for 40,000 readers was lots of fun.
I've done a post every week for Copyblogger since then; you can see the whole collection at Copyblogger.com/Author/Sonia. Sadly, it also introduced the era of "1-2 posts a week for remarkable communication, if you're lucky." I'm hoping to improve on that later this year.
I wrote What a Toddler Easter Egg Hunt Can Teach You About Success shortly after I got back from SOBCon, inspired by communicatrix's advice to go ahead and get a little more personal with the blog. It got great traffic and lots of love, so I guess she was right. She's pretty smart about these things. That advice, combined with taking some extra care to produce the best I could do, since I wasn't posting as often as I'd like, led directly to posts like How to Take a Punch, The Nice Guy's Guide to Authority, and The Complete Flake's Guide to Getting Things Done.
Probably my biggest linkbait of the year was 50 Things Your Customers Wish You Knew, which was inspired by Copyblogger's Cosmo Headline technique. (I think the Cosmo original was something like 50 Things Guys Wish You Knew.) Lots of folks loved that post and shared that love with their friends. I actually re-read it myself every once in awhile, it's the kind of advice we know but keep forgetting.
There it is, your guide to a year of remarkable communication. For the second year, as I said, I'm going to try to post somewhat more frequently, but my first priority is to keep up post quality, rather than posting a lot of fluff or filler. Since my posts in the past months have been doing well with traffic, social media referrals and comments, I'm going to assume that's still what you want!
I also want to start making better connections with the hundreds of amazing blogs and bloggers that I haven't been making time for lately. So look for more links and pointers to the amazing variety of terrific stories on the Web (and not just at Seth's site).
And I'd love to create a survey for my peeps here, to get a better idea of who you are and the stuff that interests you.
Thank you to the three people who are still reading this post. You are a dear for indulging my reminiscences. I've got a "real" post cooking for you that I think you will like–with a little luck, I'll get that for you later this week.
Thank you to every one of my fantastic readers, you are an amazing bunch and you have taught me so much. Let's go kick another ten miles of ass together in the next year, ok? I think that remarkable communication is going to see some pretty cool stuff in the next few months.
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