Wordpress Vienna Meetup 29. 04. 2013

1. How WordPress has
determined my destiny
How WordPress has
determined my destiny
and blogging

3. Andrej Mikula
blogger, time mamanagement speaker & coach
my blog

4. “Five years ago, I wanted to be a copywriter...”

8. “If you want to become a (copy)writer, write!”
-- DAVID OGILVY

9. “If you want to become a (copy)writer, write!”
-- DAVID OGILVY
Hmm. Sounds legit...

10. So, I’ve started a Wordpres.com blog - January, 2008

11. BTW: If you want to see how (almost) any web
looked like in the past, use http://web.archive.org.

12. Google.com December, 1998

13. After years of being self-employed,
I got the dream job...

14. “I am marketing director. Yeaaah!”

15. “I am marketing director. Yeaaah!”
not so much...

17. Don’t work on “once big” startups, when
wannabe investors can’t even read email.
#1

18. I had to do something else, because...

21. It’s not immoral to make
money from blogging.
#2

23. How could I know I am doing any good?

24. Have a goal! Collect email subscribers.
#3

25. Have a goal! Collect email subscribers.
#3
pretty f****** important!

26. You don’t have to be an expert.
#4

27. You don’t have to be an expert.
#4
Be an enthusiast

29. It was because of fail, I have
started blogging seriously.

30. Don’t wait for fail. Start now.
#5

31. Don’t wait for fail. Start now.
#5
not tomorrow :)

32. And love what you do.
You can monetize everything today.