Most of the time I post fairly basic online marketing information, because a lot of my readers are looking for it.
But if you're one of those looking for advanced stuff. Here's one:
Do you want to know how I find out about new technologies that may prove useful for the online seller, online virtual assistant or online marketer?
This: Y Combinator.
Y Combinator is a baby of Paul Graham. Paul is a very opinionated investor (funny too), here's his blog if you like to read. He has a computer programming background so forgive if the essays he write is about computers.
Anyway, Paul invests in Y Combinator which invests in a little more than 50 startup companies every year.
These companies are the kind that you must pay attention to. Specially if one of them is AirBNB.com (stay in paris for 25% of the cost of the hotel across the street) and my favorite blog poster - posterous.com - which actually powers THIS blog post and every blog post I've done for more than 2 years now.
Y Combinator companies are smart, innovative and sometimes gets primetime attention - but not all the time. So it's your duty, dear reader to browse through the list of the latest Y Combinator startups and find out what's interesting and try it and CREATE A TUTORIAL how it works - and place the tutorial in your blog.
Yes, that's an assignment.
After doing that, go to the mother website of the startup and tell them how you discovered them and that you made a TUTZ for them. :)
Of course at the end of that, post the link to your blog on my facebook page, too.
They'll love it, they'll love you and you can reduce the amount of fear you have for online personalities -while enjoying the work that they have created for you.
