UberGuru Boulevard (Part II)

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UberGuru Boulevard (Part II)

Unlike me, you shouldn’t be a slouch or totally ignorant about your selected area of expertise. For instance over at Squidoo or other Squidoo rip off sites, your Lens rankings will soon give you away if you do not shape up and meet a certain standard. If you do not have a Lens at Squidoo – get with the programme dude! Go to www.squidoo.com and turn on your light.

I decided to claim some unclaimed starter lenses (or UFGs as they call them), at Squidoo and see what happened.

After some internal debate and after not reaching a concesus about what I was trying to do, I took the plunge and claimed 2 x UFGs at Sqidoo.com which I reshaped and edited then metamorphasised into RentaSpeaka and Creative Juice. And as all experienced Lensmasters know, you begin at the lowest of the lowest rank - #443,567 or something equally as soul destroying. Only shark poo is lower.

With a lot of nurturing, shouting and cursing, (‘greenhousing’ according to my retained ‘no convert no fee’ guru), I birthed two good Lens(es). They stuck pretty much at the bottom of the pile with the rest of the algae but then the upward surge took hold and they zoomed higher and higher in the ranks. All the time I kept up the daily routine of adding modules, writing, copy & pasting, searching for ideas so that the Lens displayed ZERO days since update (lost on me).Eventually I plateaued. Worrying times. So I went to look at the top 100 lensmasters efforts and picked up some good tips to put to good use. I did. It worked. The upward move started again.

So much so that as until I stopped Sqidooing a few weeks back all my Lens were in the top 500 which as results go is not too shabby at all. Knowing that any improvement to get into the top 100 would require more time than I can afford, I gave all except one back to the UFG pot.

I will continue to experiment with different subjects from time to time but will not be driven to takeover the #1 Lens slot. Since starting my blog I have stopped supporting sites that requires other bloggers to rank your blog. The effort to ensure the content will get votes is too much for me at this time.

It is important to rejuvenate your innovative/creative juices and to this end, you must keep doing the Lensmaster type blog creation exercise until your speciality strikes a chord with zillions of people and you ascend the giddy heights of UberGuru status.

But before that happens, there is so much work to be done. All work you do now should be in preparation for the day you push the send button and an article, email or blog post that you write sends a shiver down blogosphere and industry’s backbone. Only then will you be off the sidewalk and on the road to Guru Paradise.

The Guaranteed Road to Guru Paradise – Write a book

Have I written a book yet? No I have not and can’t think of a valid reason why I ought to.But you can.

There seems to be a book or 3 for every guru out there. And even more surprisingly, the speciality bandwidth within which these gurus specialise isn’t that wide at all. They all seem to eminate from the same tap root and squidge (shoehorn) themselves in and double-decker park themselves into the channel.

Why are there so many ‘experts’? According to an authority in blogosphereland, Squidoo is saturated with them. Hey, if I am one of those many so called ‘experts’ having my efforts diminished by a guru prat, I do know there is then a definite need for all the Lensmasters to carry on doing what they do. Yeah, rock on guys!

To what end you ask?

Well, look at the massive amount of information being published. You cannot say that between all hypothetical 247 ‘experts’ on longdrop portable lavatories you will experience a knowledge deficit and not be educated on the use, benefit, design, faults and the health & hygiene aspects of buying or renting a longdrop portable loo. In fact, you will have a multitude of choices and more data available to you than you ever anticipated.

One of the 247 lavvie experts will hit potluck and deserve the UberGuru accolade he or she receives as a result of their knowledge and ability to articulate their expertise via a blog. Well done him or her. Nobody can deny him or her their time at the top. They are there ‘cos they are good at their chosen field of enterprise. The other 246 will begrudge the new Uberguru their luck but only fleetingly.

…..to be continued