The Schizophrenic Life of Brian Gardner

You might think that running a premium WordPress theme website is all peaches and cream, but let me assure you it’s not.

Throw in being Chief Product Officer of Copyblogger Media which means also overseeing the development of Scribe SEO and Premise Landing Pages, and you’ve got the making of something quite overwhelming.

Now don’t get me wrong – I love my job and think I do it quite well. But like every personality type, I go through seasons of productivity and creative schizophrenia.

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What’s Your Verdict on Google Plus?

A little over a month ago I wrote 5 Reasons Why I Might Dump Facebook for Google+ and it sparked some pretty good discussion about social media.

In fact, that post received over 80 comments, which is something that hasn’t happened around here for some time.

Not only did that prove to me that folks had quite a bit to say about Google+, it also showed me that my blog (though I still feel at times it is), well isn’t quite dead yet.

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Who’s Sending the Most Traffic to Your Blog?

I’ve written more blog posts in the past 2 weeks than I have in the past year – well, not really, but it’s pretty close if you can believe that.

So it’s natural that I’ve spent time inside my Google Analytics account, which was obvious since I recently posted a graph that shows Google Chrome will overtake Mozilla Firefox.

If You Dig Deep Enough, You Might Find Something

While I was in my analytics account, I decided that I would check out one more thing – traffic referrals to my website. To my surprise, here is what I found.

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How I Lost Millions and Lived to Tell About It

Every season on America’s Funniest Videos you’ll see a clip of some poor fellow getting punk’d by his friends or family.

He’s the guy seen scratching a lottery ticket and thinks he just won a lot of money. You may see him start running around with his arms flailing, kissing anything in sight. He thinks he hit the mother lode, but they’re playing a trick on him.

Back in 2009, that was me. Not quite the same situation, and most definitely not being punk’d. This was real.

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