All Articles by Joey Strawn

About Joey Strawn

Joey Strawn is a blogger, husband, entrepreneur, and general purveyor of awesomeness and currently blogs at JoeyStrawn.com. He is president of Empty Jar Marketing in Nashville, Tenn. and works with local and national businesses to increase exposure and brand using digital marketing strategies.

Back That Thang Up!

Back Up

  Pay attention. What I say next may very well save your blogging career. If you don’t have a trusted, scheduled back up of your blog or website going right now, stop whatever you’re doing and set one up.  This is a practice I suggest to everyone, but very few people take the tips (even [...]

Make Your Writing Shocking

Shock Writing

  When was the last time you saw a video or read a blog post that made you sit back and take a breath because it was so moving or powerful? Can you remember the last time you were truly surprised or shocked by a piece of content you came across? For most of us, [...]

Blog Governance for Multiple Writers

Herding Cat Bloggers

The problem with herding cats is that they’re just so damned  independent. While you’re off wrangling one that has decided to start unrolling all the toilet paper rolls in the house, another one is in the kitchen eating your table lining and puking it back up on the counter. Just as soon as you get that [...]

Yes, SEO Is Still Important For Your Blog

SEO Searching

To many of you this headline may have been scary or seemed unimportant and for many of you, SEO is another world completely. Every year we hear the rally cry that “SEO is Dead” and so on and so forth. While that fact of the matter is that SEO practices are constantly evolving and changing, [...]

Crafting Your Blog Elixer

Blog Potion

  Welcome back to Dr. Strawn’s Lab. Put on your goggles and prepare for the flames of inspiration to engulf your every, waking dream. Mwa-hahaha! (Lightning Flashes) Blogging: Art or Science? There’s a large school of thought that says a solid method and consistency leads to blogging success. On the other side of the party line [...]

Take A Blogging Sick Day

Sick Day

  Don’t blog tomorrow. You know what, I don’t mean don’t post one.  Don’t even write one. I know that sounds counterintuitive to what we’ve preached here before and may even be against the advice I give some of the clients I work with, but this is a different audience. You guys are constantly writing and may [...]

Saving The Cat

cat in tree

  I love getting writing techniques from other disciplines or applying little-known principles to the art of blogging. This next one isn’t a far stretch because it comes from the world of hollywood screenwriting, but I’m going to go out on a limb and say most of you aren’t familiar with this one. It’s a [...]

What To Blog About AFTER The Apocalypse

apocalypse

  December 21st came and went and the world did not end in a ball of Mayan fury. I know, you’re all as surprised as me. As writers, you of course used all your best material over the past few weeks just to make sure you’d get it in under the Mayan wire. Those unexplored [...]

Blogging Advice From The Grinch

The Blogging Grinch

As the holiday season barrels down upon us, most people are filled with joyous feelings of gratitude and generosity. Most of us revel in this month because of the weather, the presents or (let’s be honest) the time off from work. But not everyone is happy about the holiday season. Some people are Scrooges and some are [...]