The Nike Method of Launching a Blog

Launch a blog the Nike way

There are a lot of guides out there about how to successfully launch a blog, and I’ll admit there are some great tips in those guides. They usually have good advice about keywords, starting with several posts, having a specific vision, being focused and several other topics. This is great for some people, but it’s [...]

Michael Scott: Somehow My Blog Manages

Michael Scott The Office

Celebrities are famous for a reason…and that reason is because they are smarter than us and we should care about everything they do and listen to everything they say. We’ve already heard the immutable wisdom of Ron Burgundy and the timeless thoughts of Yoda, but today a newer celebrity called in to share his knowledgeness [...]

5 Ways to Customize Your WordPress Dashboard

Customizing your WordPress dashboard

Ever sat in your car and looked at the big dial that shows you the RPM’s, wondering why you would even want to know this? Wishing you could put something else there—maybe a large clock, your iPhone, or a picture of the family? When you first opened up your dashboard in WordPress, you might have [...]

The 7 Laws That Make Your Multi Author Blog a Success

Seven

Ever thought about collaborative blogging? Sometimes it is tough blogging on your own, waiting for comments,  chasing traffic,sending your posts to Twitter, manually adding to Facebook so you get better Edge. Sometimes you just want a break from writing. In fact it’s quite lonely writing and posting at times.  Have you thought about how blogging together, as [...]

How to Use Your Blog to Market Your Service or Business

Business blogging

There are currently over 300 million blogs on the internet. You might be saying to yourself with so much competition for attention – Why would I want to use a blog to market my products and services ? The simple answer is, using a blog to provide authoritative, relevant, content can be one of the [...]

Weekly Blog Post Round-Up w/c 18 July 2011

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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 [...]

The Series

Blogging Tips

As bloggers, we are always looking for ways to reach our audience with our creations. In our writing we hope to inspire, inform, teach and provide ongoing value to our communities. It’s just who we are and how we roll. In order to do the best job possible – we need tools and tips. We [...]

Support

ladders supporting each other

Blogging is a great way to get your thoughts out to targeted groups of people. It’s a great way to become a thought leader and influencer. It’s a great way to further your research and knowledge of your craft and put in the hours necessary to be an expert. It’s also a great way to [...]

3 Essentials for Writing Great Posts: Voice, Perspective & Connection

Perspective

On any given day, I wake up to an inbox overflowing with emails that come my way as a result of having subscriptions to 60 or so blogs. Am I crazy? Have I lost my marbles? No! The reason is simple. I am a writer, and a blogger – and I am forever looking for [...]