The Real Purpose For Building Alliances
Let’s take a step back for a moment and think about something. In life, who generally has a much higher possibility of reaching their goals: Someone with a network of like-minded, helpful individuals or someone who is lonely, to himself, and speaks to nobody? The person who’s teamed up with others, right? Exactly, and that’s why I’m going to be talking about alliances.
Alliances are extremely powerful. Sure, one can still succeed or reach a common goal or interest by themselves, however, it can be much more difficult. Merriam Webster defines an Alliance as, “a bond or connection between families, states, parties, or individuals” as well as “an association to further the common interests of the members”. In a nutshell, an alliance is built to further the interest of the members and to develop a connection with one another.
Over the last week, I’ve been part of a pretty amazing alliance. Don’t get me wrong, we don’t have some *secret* hidden agenda. At least I don’t think Nick, the main dude who put it all together, and teaches how to blog does…
An alliance is about helping one another and building deeper relationships within that group. If there’s one thing to learn in life, it’s that you will find the most success when you can give without want and build relationships. Now, you don’t want to give out so much outside of your alliance you never make money, I mean come on, what you’re doing is no charity, but you want to give as much as possible and connect with others from a place of caring. And if there’s one thing to know about giving it’s that the more value you give and put out there, the more value you will receive in return.
For example: I’ve been learning a lot from Rob Rammuny who shares blogging tips, about building a community and great tactics and principles regarding the subject. Most of it is already known to some people but it’s always great to have those ideas and strategies reinforced.
Jordan Cooper from Not A Pro Blog has helped tremendously in crafting better, more attention grabbing videos. I implemented some changes in my last video according to the feedback he shared with me and I already notice a big difference in how more effective it is. One more time and I should be on the way to creating even awesomer videos for you guys.
Tee Riddle who gives out gardening advice, is an interesting character. Although he can be somewhat like me and chime in random thoughts or ask questions here and there, the guy is super helpful if you need it. You can tell he cares and it’s pretty interesting to see him hustle with his blog that most people wouldn’t even think about doing, if in his situation.
Keith Bloemendaal, the North Carolina mountain man who talks blog tips, is another one of those rather interesting yet very cool and helpful people. Not to keep rambling about these guys but it all really comes down to this: Effective alliances are built to help a group of people and mastermind with one another. They’re not made to just reciprocate and share other people’s content.
Let’s be honest…if you’re content sucks and other people who haven’t even read it, share it, isn’t that just making it suck even more? Even though it can be unsettling depending on who you are, to hear the truth about your content or what you’re doing, if the advice comes from someone who is genuinely trying to help, it can make a world of difference if you look at the feedback, advice and can improve upon it.
Also, humor is always a great addition to any alliance. You know what they say, “laughter is the best medicine“. Just the other day I was cracking up because I gave what my definition of passion was to Mikkel Juhl, the blogger with the craziest hair, and he shared it in a new post of his and linked to my website. The funny part was, he linked to my site with the text “the world’s coolest red hair“.
Just a few hours later, I was #2 on Google for that term…
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“What are you doing about building an alliance and how much time do you spend daily building these relationships?”
