This guy is one of those good old country boys that everyone just adores. He’s funny and cute, but not too cute. He loves telling a good story, and embellishing it when he feels it’s necessary to stretch the truth just a bit to make the story better. You know what I mean…”the fish that got away was this big”…that kind of thing. His work? I’m not sure what he does exactly, but it’s some kind of labor-intensive manly kind of blue-collar thing. His interests? Hunting, fishing, dating girls, and pimping his truck.

Now, just imagine if you will, what might happen if this guy started blogging. He could easily grab the attention of all the redneck men in the world, and probably all the redneck women as well. The stories he could tell about his hunting, fishing, and dating adventures would be fun and entertaining. He could make good money just on basic advertising fees for a highly trafficked site, but he could probably make really good money off of affiliate sales in the hunting, fishing, and truck-pimping areas.

What do guys like to buy? Hunting equipment. Fishing gear. Stuff to pimp out their cars and trucks. Everything that this guy knows absolutely everything about. He can talk for days about the latest hoohahs that he just added to his truck. Imagine if he blogged about all the coolest hoohahs that are available, and he got commissions off the sales of those hoohahs. See where I’m going with this?

If I told this guy that he should start blogging and could expect to make money off the Internet, he’d laugh and tell me that he didn’t have any kind of knowledge or talent to be able to do that. At that point, I’d have to laugh back, and say “Wanna bet?”.

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that way. I’d be willing to bet 99 out of every 100 people you know would think that, but they would all be wrong. Each of has interests and life experiences that others want to know about. It’s what the information age and social media is all about. Information … and the sharing of it. You have information. You can share it. You can profit from it. Simple as that.

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During this interview, the interviewer, Tom Critchlow, asked Hamlet Batista this question:

Further to that – what are your goals for your blog? What would you like to achieve?

and Hamlet’s reply was:

I am a serial entrepreneur, and sharing my ideas and experiences in my blog accomplishes several positive things:

1. I can build up authority in my domains of expertise.
2. I can create/improve products/services based on the feedback/critiques I receive via the comments to my posts.
3. I can gradually build a following that can potentially buy and/or recommend my products/services to others, as I have established a relationship based on trust and on delivering high quality.
4. I can interact with my peers and meet highly-regarded figures in the industry. For example, I recently demoed my software via WebEx to Bill Slawsky, Andy Beard and Halfdeck. I received great feedback, critiques and ideas that I took back to the developers and we have implemented most of them. Those guys would not have listened if we hadn’t ‘met’ in the blogosphere.

My goals are to keep growing readership, share and get more ideas, announce new products, both free and paid. Along with the feedback I hope to get some sales and recommendations.

First of all, I can so relate to the concept of being a “serial entrepreneur”. It fits right in with the fact that I describe myself as an idea gal. But aside from that, his four points are so on point that I believe everyone should read them a few times.

Hamlet has knowledge. I have knowledge. You have knowledge. As we share our knowledge, those 4 points come into play, and your chance of succeeding grows. ‘Nuff said for now.

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