Leveraging Your Blog Community
To let the cat out of the bag a bit, it exists because of this community of bloggers right here.
I count myself very fortunate to be part of this community.
It’s full of salt-of-the-earth, business-minded professionals who desire to build value for their personal brand or business by serving up value to the community.
Wouldn’t it be great to monetize a community of hundreds of bloggers like this?
Well, that is precisely the goal of BloggerBeat.com and it’s coming soon to a neighborhood near you!
While this product (for lack of a better term) will be powered by tech, it’s primary driving force is the people.
We belong to one the best community’s of bloggers on planet earth. The sky really is the limit and by working together, we can all help each other take our blogging efforts to the next level in 2013.
A Heart-Felt Shout to You!
I want to send out a special thanks to you and a few folks who motivate me everyday to be a better human-being and do meaningful work…
If I wrote everybody down that has had a positive impact on me, this post would be 20 pages long.
I do appreciate you and everyone who has commented and shared a piece of their heart and mind with me on this blog.
So, in no particular order, here are my hero’s:
John Falchetto – John is the best life and business coach I’ve ever had the pleasure of meeting.
Ameena Fachetto - And John’s wife is an incredible marketing mind and one talented branding artist!
Adam Toporek – Adam teaches businesses effective customer service practices.
Kaarina Dillabough – Kaarina is a world-class business coach, mentor and friend.
Bill Dorman – Bill is my most famous (and hilarious) friend on the social web. He’s got some game, too… Business and Golf 
Carolyn Nicandor Mohr – Carolyn eats and sleeps tech!
Srinivas Rao – Srini is doing life-changing work and taking all who want to go on the ride with him.
Dan Cristo – Dan is chief tech-head and Co-founder of Triberr.
Dino Dogan - The man, the myth, famous cartoon character and Co-founder of Triberr
Lori Gosselin – Lori takes all of life’s lemons and turns them into lemonade 
Erica Allison – Brilliant business & marketing mind who shoots video’s lying on her stomach in her chiropractors office
Jacob Yount - My connection for all things China and a super nice guy!
Jayme Soulati - Jayme is a PR extraordinaire contributing daily to shaping the future of the industry.
Gini Dietrich - Gini is the PR industry.
Danny Brown – Besides being a thought-leader on all things social and Danny can drink any social media ‘guru’ ‘expert’ under the table!
Jen Peter Berget - Jens is a brilliant marketer, teacher and soon-to-be world famous book author.
Billy Delaney – Billy is a world traveled business professional who graciously shares his expertise and wisdom with the community.
Joshu Wilner - Josh writes more words than the the entire world wide web combined on some days
Julie Walraven – Julie is a professional resume writer who helps the best talent in the marketplace land the job of their dreams.
Amber-Lee Dibble – Amber wrestles bears by day and rocks the social web by night. Literally.
Ralph Dopping - Ralph is the most talented architect in America… no, the world!
Sean Clark - Sean build’s multi-million pound companies while blindfolded and both hands tied behind his back
Shanoli Burke - Shonali is one of the brightest minds on all things communications and has just launched her own consulting business. Go Shonali!
Tim Bonner - Tim is a stay at home dad who is building online businesses while at home loving on his kids. Awesomeness!
Clarity For The Boss
And a special shout out to my friends over at Clarity For The Boss
They have gone above & beyond to provide support and assistance on laying out the strategy to get BloggerBeat.com launched to the world – I’m eternally grateful.
Team Clarity:
Troy Claus – Troy eats nails for breakfast, lunch and dinner; its some kind of new health kick… He’s an awesome resource on all thing digital business
Geoff Reiner – Geoff is the most eligible bachelor on the social web. Oh, and he also happens to be one of the best business writers on the web, too!
Sharon Gilmore-Glover - One of the smartest business minds I’ve had the pleasure of meeting… A sweet spirit with killer business instincts.
Thank you very much; I appreciate you!
And thanks to all for a great few years folks!
It’s been a great ride and I hope to make blogosphere history with you in 2013!
Again, I know I missed some folks, but thank you for making the journey nothing but AWESOME!
You can get the download on BloggerBeat.com >>> Introducing BloggerBeat.com – A Blogging Platform On Steroids!
I always have to go “huh” with this reblog thing…but, it works! Mark has an awesome concept, and I’m so glad to be in the top floor with him. Thanks for sharing this, Paul! Nice to meet you!
We’re still working out a few kinks with the reblogging but it looks to be an awesome feature. Pleasure to meet you as well!