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My Elevator Pitch {31DBBB: Day 1}

Elevator

Image courtesy of Robert S. Donovan {Flickr}

Today is the first day that I will be working through Darren Rowse’s 31 Days to Build a Better Blog (31DBBB). You can also follow other people’s experiences through Twitter using the #31DBBB hashtag. Today’s topic is about my elevator pitch. So what’s an elevator pitch?

An elevator pitch is an overview of an idea for a product, service, or project. The name reflects the fact that an elevator pitch can be delivered in the time span of an elevator ride (for example, thirty seconds, or 100–150 words).”—Wikipedia

Now that I understand what one is I am going to share the process I used for creating mine.

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31 Days of Better Blogging

31 Days to Build a Better BlogI recently purchased an ebook by Darren Rowse from ProBlogger.net. The book is titled 31 Days to Build Better Blog and can be found on his site.

The idea behind the book is to teach you techniques to assist you in developing a better blog. Each day you learn a new technique or concept, each compounding on another or something new all together.

Some of it may be common knowledge to me or some of you but I plan to share what I am experiencing each day and blog about it, to be completely transparent. In going through these exercises I may also share info/data related to the other blog I am with MattersofGrey.com as I may not have enough info on this blog to make it worth sharing.

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Thanks to @gorirrajoe

Wanted to thank @gorirrajoe for the responsive WordPress theme to get me started. I really liked the way he put his together and it works really we on mobile and desktop, hence it being called responsive. It will get me going until I can modify it to meet my needs design-wise. I want to add a little bit of color and change the fonts. Probably going to use a Google Web Font or two. I am also planning on only having the bare minimum of plugins and scripts to keep this running quickly. Should be fun, I have great things planned for the rebirth of this blog RedDolan.com.