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Position Yourself as an Expert

By Becky McCray

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Welcome, ProBlogger and Biz of Knowledge Readers!

Here’s How to position yourself as an expert.

Thank you to Bill Belew at Biz of Knowledge for compiling 66 of the great bloggers featured in our friend Ted Demopoulos‘ book, What Nobody Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting. His post has now been picked up several times and is going global.

I put this post up as a link to the piece that Bill’s readers are looking for: my notes from talking with Ted. Since that was back in June, I wanted to bring it up to the top today. Our friend Chuck Huckaby liked this article so much, he linked back to it this week, too! Thanks, Chuck!

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Becky McCray

Becky started Small Biz Survival in 2006 to share rural business and community building stories and ideas with other small town business people. She and her husband have a small cattle ranch and are lifelong entrepreneurs. Becky is an international speaker on small business and rural topics.

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January 23, 2007 Filed Under: rural

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  1. Priscilla Ortiz says

    January 27, 2007 at 4:18 am

    Very imformative!!
    You’ve given me a lot to think about.

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  2. Becky McCray says

    January 27, 2007 at 4:24 am

    Thanks, Priscilla! Glad you enjoyed it. Drop in any time!

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  3. Romer!can says

    January 27, 2007 at 3:17 pm

    Wow, 2008 already!

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  4. Becky McCray says

    January 27, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Time flies! :)
    My apologies, Romer!can. Without an easy way to make a post Sticky, I used the 2008 date to hold this post at the top of the list, just as a guidepost.

    Thanks for stopping in.

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  5. Katie says

    January 30, 2007 at 6:00 pm

    Thanks for the assurance that rural business can still be a startup. Since reading your blog, I have started looking into local grant opportunities. I never would have thought! Thank you.

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  6. Becky McCray says

    January 31, 2007 at 5:04 am

    Thank you, Katie. That is exactly why I started this site, so your words touch my heart!

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