Before and After: How to Create a Powerful Case Study For Your Blog

FBBB guide to case studies for your blog

Case studies are a powerful way of demonstrating your capability when blogging. Case studies are an excellent post type for business blogs and are often shared extensively and linked too – what more could you want? Oh, and they can also convert subscribers into customers. They are pretty much the most awesome type of blog [...]

How to Use Video for Your Blog When You Lack Onscreen Confidence

30 Day WordPress Workout

This week we’re all about the video. Have you seen our fabulous WordPress Video Training? No? Click through and read it right now and sign up to the early bird deal. And there we have a it, a call to action as the fourth sentence in a blog post. That’s a first for me. I’m [...]

21 Signs You’re Addicted to Blogging

signs that you are addicted to blogging

Are you addicted to blogging? Here are the 21 signs that you might have a blogging addiction, of course 21 signs might not be enough and if you have any that you’d like to add in the comments section then please do so.

How to Use Blog Posts As a Market Research Tool

Use blogs as research tools

One of the most powerful market research tools that you have at your fingertips is your business blog. You can learn everything about your audience with a few well written posts – their thoughts, their feelings and of course, their buying habits. Blog posts are created with social media in mind, and should be used [...]

How to Avoid Coma Inducing Business Blog Posts

I love blogs

Do you wish that your blog posts had more views? Do you wake up each day thinking that today will be the day you’ll write your breakthrough post and really make a connection with your readers? Do you sit at the keyboard wondering what you are doing wrong? Do your readers regularly need a new [...]

Can We Talk About Your Blogging Advice Please?

Best blogging tips

Blogging advice – we all dish it out but how do know what’s great advice and what’s not? Lately I’ve seen a lot of blogging advice along the lines of “how to be a rockstar blogger”, “how to build a superstar blog” and so on. When I’ve looked at the content it’s full of generic [...]

How to Write Your First How-To Blog Post

How to what now?

This is one of the first types of post a business blogger will cut their teeth on. It’s just the matter of breaking down a process into small digestible chunks that your reader will understand and be able to undertake. The how-to post is excellent for demonstrating your expertise in a subject A common worry [...]

The Problem With Only Blogging When You Have Something to Say…

Baa, a sheep with a megaphone

…is that it’s the most egotistical thing you can do. Blogging only when you have something to say means your blog is centred around you and not your audience. Okay, you’re used to controversy on this blog and strong opinions, so I am fortunate enough to know that one or two people may read this [...]

Finding Timely Images for Topical Blog Posts

PhotoPin free photos for bloggers

With the UK having  just hosted the Olympics, I’ve discovered our topical event blog posts have a small problem. Topical images. As you all know, you cannot have our hands in the Google Image cookie jar without expecting some kind of retribution from the original owner, and of course some of those images are not licensed beyond the [...]