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title: "D.J. Paris: Irreverent. Funny. True. (Private Parts?)"
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 Jan 27, 2014

# D.J. Paris: Irreverent. Funny. True. (Private Parts?)

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**About Today's Guest**

  

**D.J. Paris enjoys humor**. Instead of sports, he watched comedians on HBO and recorded their sets on cassette. He didn't do it to become a comedian. He just liked making his friends laugh.

He has been sending out funny (but true) stories to his friends for the past 15 years. Now his site gets a boatload of visitors and this podcast interview will send him over the 100,000 Twitter follower mark (if I should say so myself.)

In 2012 he wrote daily to the tune of 185,000 words. So D.J. Paris is doing something right while doing what he loves.

#### **Business Failure**

- He "bought his way to the top" of Google rankings with some black hat SEO. "Through the 'seedy underbelly of SEO' as the New York Times puts it."

#### **Greatest Sales Success**

- He modeled himself after Malcolm Gladwell's "[Outliers: The Story of Success](http://amzn.to/2nTHv4G)" in that he recognized he needed to get his 10,000 hours in to achieve mastery, so he started writing.
- He started small by entering a blog challenge to blog every day during the month of January.
- It is difficult for him if he doesn’t have this reservoir of inspiration but he realized he could do it **once he got started**. Half way through the year it became a streak he didn’t want to blow.  
  He went about 400 days straight.

#### **Mistakes Business Owners Make**

- Thinking there is nothing new to learn.
- Forgetting that content is king.
- Not realizing the free content is needed for viewership.

#### **What Are You Doing Daily To Grow**

- Networking is fundamental to his growth.
- He works hard at building his Twitter following.
- He continuously tries new things. "80% of his ideas have never panned out but he keeps trying new things."

#### **Rubber-Meets-The-Road Tip**

- You just have to write. ([Jia Jiang](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/jia-jing-rejection-therapy-the-sales-podcast) and [Jermaine Griggs](https://thesaleswhisperer.com/blog/jermaine-griggs-the-sales-podcast)- and Yours Truly - agree.)
- He spends about an hour a day on X with 5-7 posts per day.
- He writes when he is inspired but does not schedule his posts. He wants to "be available to respond right away and increases engagement."
- “Direction works better than goals.”

#### **What Are You Reading Now**

- [The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles](http://amzn.to/1i3CHOc) by Steven Pressfield. "If you want to get kicked in the butt, check this out. It’s how to do what needs to be done even when you’re not inspired."
- Get D.J. Paris's Book [Holy Crap, I'm Bathing In a Rose - Best of Thoughts FromParis 2012](http://amzn.to/1kVIhGN)

#### **Links Mentioned**

- D.J. Paris Home Page

#### If you liked this episode, please let [D.J. Paris](https://twitter.com/tfpHumorBlog)and [me](https://x.com/fixerwes) know on X.

#### **Tools To Thrive**

- **[Make Your Marketing Magnetic](https://www.charm-offensive.co.uk/ref/63/)**: This is where it all began for me. You can attract qualified, eager buyers like clockwork when you master the concepts in [this valuable program](https://www.charm-offensive.co.uk/ref/63/).

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