The Winning Way: an eBook Review
If you operate a website or a blog, I’m pretty sure that you are obsessed with driving more traffic to your site. Readers and visitors are the lifeblood of a website or blog and attracting them is a...
View ArticleWriting vs. Blogging: Is There a Difference?
A lot of bloggers are proud of the fact that with blogs, they are finding a medium for sharing content with the rest of the world. They have become writers. Similarly, a lot of writers have found a new...
View ArticleHow Well Do You Work Under Pressure?
Image by churl via Flickr People who want to get into the business of professional blogging sometimes have the wrong notion that it’s all easy work. They see blogging not as a serious activity, but...
View ArticleWhat Documents Do You Use as Proof of Income?
On Freelance Switch, Thursday Bram posts about an issue freelancers commonly face: how do you prove your income? This is especially useful if you’re applying for loan financing, for instance, buying a...
View Article5 Ways to Quickly Generate Blog Posts
Image via Wikipedia All of us have deadlines, post quotas, and traffic targets to meet. Whether self-imposed or an employer’s requirement, these goals all rely on producing content on a regular basis....
View Article5 Things Your News Posts Should Cover
A couple of weeks ago, I came across a post detailing what every news article should cover. I unfortunately can’t seem to remember where I encountered it (if you know what I’m talking about feel free...
View Article5 Ways to Make Your Blog Timeless
Blogging is immediate, particularly for niches that rely on breaking news realtime. Thus it’s easy to forget that readers will visit your blog and read posts months, years, and even decades after they...
View ArticleHow to Blog With Emotion
Have you ever noticed that some of the most popular blog posts are the ones that are filled with emotion. When you read them, you can sense a lot of emotion. They might read like a passionate rant or a...
View Article7 Quick Blog Post Ideas
If you’re like me, you’ll run in to writers block from time to time. Coming up with a new blog post idea everyday can really be difficult, especially if your blog covers a very specific niche. So...
View ArticleDo Your Post Titles Attract Readers?
It’s no secret that great content can make or break your blog. A few solid pillar articles can drive traffic to your blog for months, even years. But one thing that is often overlooked is the title of...
View ArticleHow to Maintain Focus When Writing
As a blogger and writer, I must admit that there are days when I’m just on a roll. I’m able to achieve significant output. I’m able to manage my time wisely, and I’m generally productive. But then...
View ArticleImprove Your Blog’s Brand by Creating New Jargon
Yaro Starak has some great advice for bloggers in one of his recent posts. He advises us to create new jargon for our niche. This strategy builds the perception that we are experts who know what we’re...
View ArticleHow to Sustain Inspiration in Blogging
Jason Fried from 37signals talks about sustaining inspiration in this speech at around the 19:40 mark. He suggests that inspiration is perishable. He contrasts the lifespan between the actual idea and...
View ArticleProductivity Tips For Bloggers From a Bestselling Author
Steven Pressfield is great example of perseverance for anyone in the creative field including bloggers. His first couple novels never saw print. But he kept at it and 17 years after his college...
View ArticleLacking Inspiration? Read A Blog to Write A Blog!
This is a guest post by Cori Padgett, the creative brains and dubious brawn behind the blog Big Girl Branding. Alright, sometimes blogging isn’t easy. One day you get stuck and at a loss as to what to...
View Article6 Tips to Make the Most of Your Blog Writing Time
Blogging can be an enjoyable experience or it can be a draining time-suck. Which would you prefer? Whether you’re blogging for your own reasons, freelancing, or doing it for your business, finding the...
View ArticleHow the Compounding Effect of Blogging Gives Your Blog a Huge Boost
The compounding effect of blogging is a topic I often discuss in my books, to my clients, and at speaking engagements, but in order to understand the compounding effect of blogging, you have to...
View ArticleIs Your Blog’s About Page About the Right Stuff?
When was the last time you read your blog’s About page? It’s easy to forget that page when you’re busy writing fresh blog posts, but your About page is one of the most important destinations on your...
View ArticleBlogging Strategically Not Tactically And 5 Steps to Do It
If your goals for your blog include growing your audience, developing an online platform to establish yourself as an expert in your field, or making money, then you need to start thinking strategically...
View ArticleTapping industry players for relevant, timely content
Improving blog traffic means hooking visitors to your blog and giving them something that will make them go back again and again. One way to do this is to providing relevant, up to date information on...
View ArticleHow to Curate Content without Regurgitation
As a webmaster, coming up with creative, interesting and original content on a daily basis is no easy task. Sometimes it feels like it doesn’t matter how hard you try to beat other bloggers or...
View ArticleTop 5 Available Open Source eCommerce CMS
When you discuss about online life and PHP development, having an efficient and reliable Content Management System is becoming more of a need than an option today. We all make use of content management...
View ArticleThree Places to Syndicate Your Internet Marketing or Social Media Content
If you have a blog with regular, great content, it may beneficial for traffic to get it syndicated on another website that brings in more traffic. There are several options for websites that syndicate...
View ArticleFour Online Tools to Help You Be More Productive Online
When you are a social media marketer or just spend a lot of time on the internet, there are several tools you can use to make the work you do much more productive. In some cases, if the tool is saving...
View ArticleShould We Give In To Clickbait When Creating Content?
Clickbait. It’s the bane of web content and seems to everywhere these days, should content marketers be using clickbait in their titles to draw attention to their content though? Online content is...
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