I believe we all need 3 things from you …

1. They need to learn how to reeeeeeally be themselves and express that to the world.

2. They need to learn how to make a living online.

3. They need to to learn how to do 1 and 2 as quickly as possible.

From what I’ve seen of you over the last few months, you are really good at each of those, so just be JBT.com and teach us all how to accomplish those 3.

First I want to say that i’m a HUGE fan of your writings and your monty-pythonesque humour, and the only reason that I do not interact more with you on the comment is that my english is very poor (i come from Switzerland).

But if you ask our opinion, here is mine :

I think that from an Internet Marketing point of vue, it’s nearly always better to focus… So i agree with you and think that it’s better to put everything on JohnnyBTruant. Your blog will not be as “niche focused” as it should be as told in the IM Bible, but it doesn’t matter, because I think it’s your humourous style of writing that make you specific, your niche could be “business, self-help and tech people that want to read about theses stuff, but in a funny way”.

What about TEIH.com ? For me it would be better if you close it and post your humorous ramble on your main blog : it’s always nice to read a few “off-topics” and more personnal posts when you like a blogger. And with a proper categories distinction, you would be able to put a clear line between the “usefull” and the “funny” posts, so that the reader that “just” want to laugh (former readers of TEIH maybe) can style read what they want without having to deal with the more tech/business posts.

Another option, if you still want a clear cut, is to make another blog non-profit oriented for your funny ramble, cause without the “economy” in it there wouldn’t be much confusion.

In any cases I’ll still be a faithful reader and wish you all the best,

Dushan JANCIK, internet marketing courses reviewer from Switzerland

I’m not going to respond to everyone individually; I’m going to thank you all as a whole for the great input. Hopefully this lack of an individual response does not cause you to throw shoes at me, because I’m a shoe ninja like George Bush and will dodge them.

I DO think I will write pure humor posts as they strike me. I’m not going to go all business. Stupid, pointless, dumb, nonsensical stuff is still where I live and breathe.

Ultimately, the question is where those posts will end up. But I think I know the answer to that. I just need to mull for a few days.

1) yes, convert VA.com to JBT.com
2) yes, humor on one blog, your voice full of tips on the other (it’ll be funny in that way you have
3) choice A, kinda — remove tech, but write more and better and shorter FUNNY on TEIH.com

You can link between them too –

You know what to do, why ask? Just to make us feel good? Hearing any surprises?

If you’re not going to be focusing on the “pure humor writing” stuff as much as teaching/talking about stuff in a humorous way, then archive the TEIH articles and just add as needed.

And, since you don’t seem to have enough writing to do… you could also have separate email newsletters for each crowd. Those who just want the funny could subscribe to a TEIH-type newsletter, published monthly or so. Those who want actionable tech-y tips could subscribe to a LTBYOVA-type newsletter. Then your blog can be the main source of “this is what I want to talk about today” and the newsletter could have different or more detailed content.

And one more thing (since I’ve apparently decided to write the longest comment ever), here are two examples for you:

@chrisbrogan / chrisbrogan.com – for successfully providing different, but useful and interesting content on his blog and newsletter(s)

@havi / fluentself.com – for being herself and running a business, all on one blog (mostly)