TalkBiz News is one of the oldest continually published newsletters on the subject of doing business online.
We don't do things the usual way, as you'll see from the sign-up page. Instead of the common 6 lines and a flashy graphic, it's an actual explanation of what you get when you join. Including the 117-page book, "Need to Know," and an editable mindmap of the PLANTS System to help you plan your online strategy.
Check it out and see for yourself why we've still got subscribers who joined us 17 years ago.
This is a collection of 6 powerful tools you can use for planning out an online business. We don't just hand you flat graphics, which can be intimidating when they get into detail. You get the actual mindmap files, in Freemind and XMind formats, so you can edit them to fit your own goals and experience.
Take it all in at your own pace, and as you need it.
You'll also get my intro course on mindmapping. This is one of the most profitable skills you can learn to organize your thoughts and systems, and create better products in far less time.
The quick-start guides will have you creating a complete, original, and useful mindmap of your own within 30 minutes or less. Even if you've never used a mindmapping program before.
After publishing a plain text email newsletter for so long, why start a blog now?
Easy answer: Blog posts don't land in the spam folder.
There are a lot of other reasons. Some things that are fit for a blog post wouldn't make proper issues of a newsletter. Blogs allow more interaction between readers. It's easier to share the link to a post on Twitter or Facebook than to forward whole issues of a newsletter. They're easier to read on mobile devices.
If I get inspired and start posting every day for a while, people won't freak out like they would if I started sending issues of the newsletter that often.
There's also the fact that you can leave a lot more resources in one place this way than you can via email.
It seemed time to do it again.