How To Succeed In Blogging By NOT Being A Rock Star

Cat-Chorus

So you want to be a rock star. You want people to know you by name and pigeons to be released every time you walk into a room. It seems like a glamorous lifestyle and you want to get there by blogging your ass off, knowing people will realize your greatness and eventually start flocking [...]

12 Reasons Your Blog Isn’t Making Any Money

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Ever wonder if your blog could be doing a better job of turning your readers into buyers? You are posting consistently. You feel pretty good about your content. But you wish you could get a few sales. If you are a business blogger—or even an artist or hobbyist—your blog can be a good sales attraction [...]

Blog Violently

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Ok, listen. It’s time to stop trying to be somebody else and blogging like you think you’re supposed to blog and start blogging what you feel. Step outside of your comfort zone and start to blog violently. When you leave, there should be an impression and things should be different. Make people listen to you [...]

7 Ways to Use Your Blog as a Lab, Even if You Sucked at Science

boy scientist

I confess. I am a random creative, about as right-brained as you can get. In high school, I aced the verbal section of the SAT’s. But man, I hated the math and science questions. You know, the ones like: Tom is taller than Max. Max is shorter than James. James is shorter than Don. What [...]

On Blogging Like a Buddhist Monk

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Last weekend I was asked if I have any “rituals” that I use when getting ready to write. A most interesting question. I’m willing to bet that most bloggers have certain things they do, specific places they go, or various actions they take when sitting down to blog. While I absolutely do have various rituals [...]

4 Books You Need To Read To Be A Better Blogger

Reading

A lot of different factors go into being a good blogger. You have to enjoy storytelling, know your craft, and understand how to communicate ideas clearly. It also helps if you are the slightest bit interesting while doing the previous things. I mean, you can be as boring as a bag of sand, but I’m [...]

How Many Times Should You Tweet Your Blog Post?

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How many times do you tweet your blog post on Twitter? Once? Twice? This topic has been covered quite a number of times by different bloggers before, but I want to go through this post and share my point of view on this. Problogger did an experiment and asked his readers on how many times [...]

How to Embed a Video On Your Blog Post

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There are a few ways to embed a video onto your blog – some easy, some a little more advanced (if you’re uploading directly, for instance, as opposed to hosting elsewhere). In this video, we take a look at two of the simplest ways. The first is suitable for all blogs, and uses standard HTML [...]

Weekly Blog Post Round Up w/c 07 March 2011

Weekly round up of best blogging tips online

Hi, and welcome to our weekly round up of posts. If you missed anything from this week on For Bloggers by Bloggers, you can catch up with it here. To make sure you never miss a post when it’s published, choose your preferred subscription option from the sidebar to the right (email, RSS feed, social [...]