Straw into Gold: 5 Blogging Lessons from Rumpelstiltskin

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Did you know that For Bloggers By Bloggers answers your “What can I possibly blog about?” question every week? Whatever your niche, these cool ideas will get you unstuck in a hurry. The topics are general enough that with a few what-if’s, you can customize your post, making it specific to your audience. Okay, so [...]

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 [...]

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

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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 [...]

A Blogger Turns Three: 10 Things I’ve Learned

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My blogging self turned three years old last month. I’m past the pains of teething, past the ‘terrible 2′s,’ with the nonstop questions (although, come to think of it, I’m still asking ‘why?’ questions a lot.) Blogging is so much a part of me that I forget that other people might not be even remotely [...]

The Hollywood Guide to a Better Blog Tagline

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We have just watched the inflated, over-the-top, “I’m good.” “No, you’re good” Oscars. Well, some of us. Since my daughter was in the biz, the glamour is gone. But that’s another story. I didn’t watch the awards this year, but seeing the blow-by-blow on the front page of cnn.com—and watching the trailers— I couldn’t help [...]

5 Magical Headlines to Make Your Blog Posts Go Viral

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Writing your blog post can be a lot of work. But it’s usually not the part that gives you the most grief. Your toughest job is coming up with the right title. Because when your post lands in a subscriber’s in-box or in their Google reader, your title is competing with every other message, every [...]

5 Reasons First Graders Would Rule the Blogging World

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When I was a first grade teacher, the end of summer always made me reflective (actually, it still does).  If there was going to be change, it was going to happen in the sun-drenched days of September. Like the first day of school. The intoxicating smell of new. Scents of wool sweaters with prices barely [...]

5 Ways the Right Photo Can Get You More Blog Readers

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If you are like me, your blog posts take some time to write. Sometimes lots of time. And if you fight The Princess Syndrome, they can take even longer. I’ll toss a topic around, let it marinate. Even start a post and abandon it because I’m not feeling particularly passionate about it. So by the [...]

How to Tell if Your Blog Has a Brand: The One-Word Test

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You have a blog, unless you are blogging for a corporation, the blog is what it is because of you—I mean, you, the person. It’s a personal blog or it’s a business blog. But it’s you. So who are you? Recently, Danny Brown talked about how important it is to not only to serve up [...]