How To Design Your Blog Quick and Easy

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When you are a new blogger it is nice to have at least a few things that come quick and easy. Setting up the look and feel of your your blog should be one of them. In this screencast, I”ll show you a package of framework and child theme that can be used pretty much [...]

What Super Mario Bros Taught Me About Blogging

Super Mario Bros

I love video games. I’ve been playing them for most of my life and it’s nearly impossible to talk about the pure awesomeness of video games without talking about the Italian grand-daddy of popular platform games. With dozens of official versions and probably hundreds of unofficial ones spanning almost three decades, it’s safe to say [...]

Why We Don’t Charge For Blog Topics

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Here at For Bloggers By Bloggers, we offer free weekly blog topics every Saturday. A collection of various ideas, titles and niches, it’s to help bloggers get inspiration when they hit the blog topics wall. As bloggers, we know how difficult it can be to come up with just the right idea sometimes. It could [...]

Multi-Sensory Blogging: A Tale of Three Little Readers

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I confess. I don’t love in-person-networking events. I am an introvert. I don’t apologize for it. It’s what I am. And it serves me well as a writer and blogger. After an event, I know that I have some serious energy re-charging to do when I get back. Because being alone refuels me and being [...]

How To Stay Motivated As A Blogger: 8 Tips

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I love the Urban Dictionary . Here is their definition of motivation:          If you have been blogging for a while now, you have probably faced the question of how to stay motivated. Blogging, like so many things in life, takes energy, drive, enthusiasm and a good deal of motivation. No [...]

Take Your Blog Offline

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We talk a lot about blogging, or web logging, here on For Bloggers, By Bloggers. It’s pretty much all we talk about and that’s perfectly fine because it’s what we set out to help people with when we started this adventure. So a title like “Take Your Blog Offline” probably raised a few eyebrows when [...]

Similarities between Twitter and Blogs

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Last Wednesday, I covered the similarities between Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and Blogging, today, its about the similarities of twitter and blogs. There are actually similarities between blogs and Twitter, and I’m not talking about the basic how many characters one can write on blogs compared to Twitter. However, when taking a look at building [...]

Problem Readers: 5 Steps to Resolving a Negative Blog Comment

bad child

Has your kid ever dissed you? You know, talked back, had that certain ‘tone’ in their voice, gotten a little sassy? Children can be contrary. The longer we do this parenting thing, the better we get at coping. Some of us even learned how to defuse an angry child with the tools of psychology that [...]

The Top 10 Ways to Kill Your Blog

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So you’re bored with blogging. You have other things to do – like eat, sleep, go out, work. You know – boring “real life” stuff. Besides, thinking about it, blogging is for computer nerds and failed writers. Not to worry – help is at hand. Here are 10 ways to kill your blog. Let’s begin. [...]