Comments on: 7 Ways Craig Ferguson Can Make Your Blog Awesome

By: Direct Response Marketing Links | Ghostwriter Dad

Direct Response Marketing Links | Ghostwriter Dad — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:43:42 +0000

[...] love what David Wright wrote about getting more creative with your blog in 7 Ways Craig Ferguson Can Make Your Blog [...]

By: janice

janice — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:27:50 +0000

Just watched the videos and was gobsmacked to hear the Glasgow accent; then I realised he’s the Scottish guy who was in the film Saving Grace!

By: janice

janice — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:20:11 +0000

I reckon this is one of CI’s best posts to date. Like Cindy and Eric, I was nodding in agreement as I read, and I hadn’t even seen the footage. I’ve seen this post format a million times, the intro and the short internal list, but you guys do it well.

By: janice

janice — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:16:15 +0000

The last version took hours to load with my browser. This one’s much quicker.

By: dirtywhitecandy

dirtywhitecandy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:46:01 +0000

great post – you’ve pinpointed all the things I love and loathe about blogs! And in such style, thus fulfilling the other golden objective.

By: dirtywhitecandy

dirtywhitecandy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:42:24 +0000

great advice – you’ve pinpointed the very things I love and loathe about blogs – and fulfilled your other objective of being fresh and entertaining! Mille points!

By: Lovelyn

Lovelyn — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:05:04 +0000

Great reminder to be yourself online. Early in my blogging career I fell into the trap of trying to be someone I wasn’t online and let’s just say it didn’t quite work out. It never will. If it does become successful, you’re stuck acting like something you’re not. CF is a great example of how being yourself can bring you success. Great videos too. Very funny.

By: Trina

Trina — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 16:19:22 +0000

Ha, CF’s timing is exquisite to be sure, and everytime I see you tweet about his latest quip, I think ‘damn, why am I on twitter and not watching CF?’
There are so many blog tip posts out there, so kudos on taking a tip from your own CF analogy and getting creative. From what I can see you follow your own tips very well.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:52:36 +0000

Eric – Thanks!

Collier – I do like his accent, though I didn’t want to point it out for fear that it might entice someone to do video posts in a fake Ferguson accent to try and be more appealing. We all remember the late 80′s disaster that was people walking around mimicking Crocodile Dundee and saying, “THAT’S not a knife…” or the Borat “Very nice” impersonations of two years prior. I shudder to think what faux Fergusons would sound like. Now that I think about it, Faux Fergusons would make an awesome name for a band!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:00:05 +0000

Michelle – Glad you enjoyed it. And I would’ve never thought about it before, either. Fact is, I wanted to do a post about how awesome Ferguson is, but then I started to examine his tecniques a bit deeper and thought this would make for a good post.

christine – Thank you. If Ferguson reads this, I’ll pass on your contact info.

Tumblemoose – Thank you. As for load time, this one actually loads quicker than the prior one by quite a bit for me. All the images are smaller, whereas the other one had huge honking images, and there’s less clutter overall. I’ll have to look at the plugins that are running and see if any of them in particular could be slowing things down. Anyone else experiencing slow loads?

cindy – Thank you. And anything good from this post comes from Ferguson, not me. The man is awesome.

Bud – Thank you. I think that last one is one of the harder ones for creative types to get past.