How to Build a High-Traffic Blog Without Killing Yourself – Tim Ferriss

If you are a regular reader of this blog, you know I genuflect to the church of Tim Ferriss, the author of “The 4-Hour Work Week”. His book and methods have been a constant inspiration. This talk in particular, given in 2009 at the San Francisco WordCamp, has a lot of great takeaways.

The talk centers around developing and maintaining a blog (which was helpful to me with this blog relaunch) but he also covers many topics such as efficient ways to use Twitter, researching topics to share, having fun is not wasting time and even out-sourcing his love life(!). In addition he discusses covering blog topics that are “evergreen” and timeless, and not to chase the news and current trends, which is a stance I continue to agree with and try to maintain. Check out his blog if you get a chance, a really rich community of smart people striving for improved lifestyle design.

Lots of great info in this video and a perfect primer if you are starting a blog, want to reignite your current site or just develop a community to share ideas and info with your followers.