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Who Am I and What Is StandOutBlogger About?

My name is Thomas Sinfield and I am 23 y/o, living in QLD, Australia. I started StandOutBlogger in May 2008 as a way of not only teaching bloggers how to improving the blogging, but also to inspire them to aim higher and work harder (and smarter) to create highly influencial and profitable blogs – that add value!

Learn More About Thomas And StandOutBlogger

Sample The StandOutBlogger Style Of Content

I know that every blogger is different and everyone has their own unique voice that some people really like, while others cannot stand. I have compiled a list of a few of my favourite blog posts over the last year that will give you a quick overview of what you can expect from this blog.

• Setting SMART Goals
• Photoshop Ebook Cover
• Overcoming Procrastination
• Climbing & Goals
• 50 Creative Blog Designs
• Finding New Blog Readers

Thomas, What Are You Trying To Sell Me?

Now I know what you are thinking.

You say that you created this blog to teach and inspire, but we all know it is about making money! No one does anything for free these days, so what is the catch?

And you would be right to a degree. My goal of this blog is to build influence and create a brand name (through StandOutBlogger) that people see as a leader in the field of blogging, and I do promote products and sell advertising on my website

BUT…

In saying that, here are a few convictions I have about this blog:

1. I Will Only Recommend Products That I Use And Believe In
   Honest and integrity are two of the most valuable qualities that a person (not just a blogger or entrepreneur) can have. I hold them in such high regard and I will not gamble the risk of losing them to make a couple of dollars from affiliates sales for a product or services that I do not trust!
2. I Will Only Post If I Have Something To Say
   If you are like me, then you will have a heap of blogs in your RSS feed reader. The last thing I want to do is spam you with unnecessary posts – which is why I will only write a post when I have something to say that I believe is valuable and worth your time.
3. I Want To See You Succeed As A Blogger
   As this blog was created to teach and inspire bloggers to become think bigger, be creative and gain influence, I wouldn’t be doing my job properly if my readers blogs were not succeeding! This is the main reason that I wrote my latest free ebook, ‘7 Traits Of A Successful Blogger‘.

If You Like What You Hear Would You Consider Subscribing?

I would be honoured if you would take the time to subscribe to my blog and allow me to feed you with thought provoking and challenging posts about how we can all improve as bloggers. As a bit of an incentive, if you sign up via email then I will automatically send you a copy of my 15 page ebook ‘7 Traits Of A Successful Blogger‘.

If there is anything I can help you with, or you would like to ask me a question, then I am always excited when I receive emails from my readers. So click the contact link in the header and shoot me an email! I will answer you as quickly as I can – but sometimes I get busy, so give me a couple of days!

I wish you all the best of success with you blogging!

Tom
StandOutBlogger.com

For those of you who didn’t know, it was Australia Day on Monday and I spent the whole day at a music festival called ‘Sonfest’. Australia Day is our equivilent of ’4th of July’, however instead of all the massive fireworks displays we tend to celebrate it with a few simple Australian tradition, but I will let our goverment explain it with their ‘Australia Day Ad’

Now I know it is a bit belated, but I just wanted to share a few of the things about Australia that I absolutely love, plus I know that we have a lot of words and sayings that a lot of people ourside of our country wouldnt understand. So I have decided to share a few of these as well!

5 Things I Love About Australia

1. Our Freedom

   
   I know that other countries have this as well, however some don’t. I am so thankful that I live in a country where there is freedom of speech and freedom of religion. The fact that we don’t have to worry that we will be thrown in jail for something we have said, and that we have the ability to follow our God without fear of persecution. read this entry »

I will be the first to admit that I have failed on many occassions. Projects that havn’t worked the way I planned. Ideas that turned out to look so much better in my mind than in real life. But it’s not just failure that gets us down, but rejection.

Sometimes well meaning people try to project their personal opinions about us, and while they don’t mean to hurt us -  sometimes it does. Rejection from strangers is easy to handle for most people, but when someone we know and respect tells us that we are a failure, that what we are working on isn’t working, it can really get to us.

So I just wanted to look at 3 really simple things that we can do to turn failure and reject into success. But before I do, check out this video to see a few of the people that failure puts you in the same league as. read this entry »

So many people fail at getting to where they want in life because the do not take ahold of the countless opportunites that come there way – on a regular basis. Everyday we encounter new opportunities and if only we knew how to identify them, we would not only save ourselves a lot of time and effort but we would also start to see our dreams becoming a reality.

So many times we do not recognise all the opportunites that are available to act on. Acting on all opportunites both big and small will help you get to your desired destination quicker.

One thing I noticed is that a lot of people pass up the smaller opportunites because they are looking for that one opportunity that is sure to ‘make it big’, but a lot of times it is the smaller opportunites that provide stepping stones to bigger opportunites.

So here are my 3 Keys to Making Every Opportunity Count

1. Awareness
   How can we expect to be taking ahold of new opportunites everyday if we cannot find them? The first thing that we need to be doing to make every opportunity count is the be aware that opportunites are everywhere! Especially with how busy life always seems to be, we get so caught up in what we are doing that opportunities are walking straight by us - and we don’t even notice.Another reason that we never seem to notice opportunies is because most times they arrive in the way of a problem.Every problem is an opportunity in disguise!Take Benjamin Franklin for example, he had bad eyesight and was tired of changing glasses to view short distance and and long distances. So he created bi-focal lenses.

   So the first thing we need to be doing to make sure we are taking advantage of every opportunity in to realise that opportunities are everywhere and usually they come in the form of a problem.

2. Anticipation
   So now that we know opportunities are everywhere the next step is to anticipate them.The dictionary defines anticipation as:

   To realise beforehand; foretaste or forsee.’

The thing is, that now that we are aware of the countless opportunites available to us, we have to prepare ourselves so that when they come along that we are ready to take ahold of them. This is where your attitude plays a big role.

Even if you have taken the first step and made yourself aware that opportunities are everywhere, if you have a negative attitude you will always make excuses on why everyone else can take ahold of these opportunities and you can’t.

You will make excuses such as:

- I don’t have the money
- The timing isn’t right at the moment
- I could never do that

What you need to realise that the people who take their opportunites and run with it, could easily make the same excuses as you do – they just decide not too. There will always be excuses that you can make as why not to take an opportunity, what you need to do is put those excuses aside and focus on the reasons why you know you should take advantage of it!

3. Action
   I’m sure you were already guessing this would be the final point, but the thing is that a lot of people even when they are aware of opportunities and start to anticipate these opportunites, taking check of their attitude to make sure they are ready – but they never take the action required.The only difference between you and any successful businessman, blogger, internet  marketer or who ever you look up it is the fact that when they were presented with an opportunity they took action!

   If the opportunity requires you to be more qualified – get more qualified. Take the required action to take advantage of the opportunity, but whatever you do, don’t let these actions become excuses that stop you!

I hope these steps will help you to not only find more opportunites but also to take advanage of them and see each opportunity you come in contact with count!

As part of running StandOutBlogger, I spend a lot of time visiting a multitude of blogs in many different niches. A lot of them I never return to (for many reasons), but some just draw me in (usually with their content) and I end up subscribing.

So I have decided to (hopefully regularly) highlight a few blogs from a certain niche and just rave on them for a bit. And even if the niche has nothing to do with your blog – you are sure to learn a lot from their blog and their blogging style.

Being a massive fan of entrepreneurship and innovation, I have decided to start with that niche. And the blogs that I have included, I believe are leading the pack in content and delivery in the entrepreneurship niche.

The 10 Entrepreneur Blogs You Need To Follow In 2009! read this entry »