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About Marya Jan

Marya is a blogging coach and an online copywriter for small business owners and service professionals. Catch more of her posts at Writing Happiness. Grab her Free ebook 9 NEW RULES OF BLOGGING - How to Grow Your Business with Little traffic, No connections & Limited hours. Follow her @WritingH, she is very friendly. :)

Top 5 Reasons Why Your Business Needs a Blog

Best blogging tips

Are you struggling to find reasons to start a business blog? Are you unsure whether it will be worth investing time, effort and money in your blog? Aren’t there too many blogs – literally millions of them – on the web that nobody reads? (There are 31% more bloggers today than there were 3 years [...]

You vs I : How to Write with a You-attitude

All about you

Writing with the you-attitude does not mean playing around with pronouns or switching ‘I’ with ‘you’. It means writing from the point of view of your reader. In business writing it leads to goodwill and positive results. On the web, it can mean the difference between success and failure. But how do you write and make [...]

7 Pieces of Blogging Advice that New Bloggers Should Ditch Right Now

7 blogging tips

When you first start blogging, there can be a lot of pressure on your shoulders. You’ve probably read a variety of posts on what you should be doing and how you should be doing it to get started. And, more likely than not, most of these posts will have confused you, as they all say [...]

Are You My Favourite Blogger? It’s Time for a Reality Check

Favourite bloggers

Are you really my favourite blogger? We all have them – the bloggers whose posts we visit, share and recommend much more than other ones. So what is it that separates these bloggers from everyone else? What makes their blogs the ones that go in our favourites list, while others might get the occasional read [...]

3.5 Reasons Why I Am Sick of List Posts

Lists

Lately I have been noticing a tendency on my part to skim rapidly with most blog posts. Every post looks like it has been churned out by the same machine. They all feel the same. I wake up to an inbox full of emails that I get as a result of subscribing to many, many blogs. I [...]

Is Your Blog Stressing You out? Spot the Culprit – The Wannabe Blogs

Copycats

Lately, I have been getting huge amounts of stress at the thought of checking into my blog. Don’t get me wrong, I love my blog, hell, I adore it. Our relationship has been going on for almost a year now. When we started it was love at first sight. Then came the euphoria of trying [...]

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 [...]