5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 2: Decluttering

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Yesterday we looked at why you need a social media hub, and why your blog is the ideal platform. Today, we’ll look at how you declutter your social outposts so you can start using the strong ones as building blocks to fill the holes in your social media hub. Analyzing. Prioritizing. Socializing. We’ve all done [...]

7 Blog Formulas to Use When You Have Run Out of Ideas

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It’s more common than you think for a blogger to run out  of ideas. You are not alone when you think the well of ideas has dried up, we all have days like that. Instead of staring at your computer screen for hours, why not try writing using a blog post formula? Blog post formulas [...]

5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub – Day 1: Defining Your Hub

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Social media is a pretty big thing. But it can also be a pretty fractured thing as well. New platforms spring up, old ones wither and die, some are more beneficial than others and some will just take up valuable time and waste it. And it doesn’t matter if you’re using social media personally or [...]

For Bloggers By Bloggers Weekly Review

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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, or [...]

4 Questions That Help Your Readers Get Involved

4 Questions That Help Your Readers Get Involved

Do your blog posts involve your reader or do you simply teach, speak, instruct, ramble, rant or even worse – bitch and moan? Do you trust your readers enough to bring them into the conversation of your writing? Do you push your audience past what might be the “feel good” point of a specific topic, [...]

23 Of Our Favourite WordPress Plugins

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At For Bloggers By Bloggers, we use self-hosted WordPress as our platform of blogging choice. There are many reasons for this – flexibility, support, strength of platform, theme developers and much more. But one of the best reasons for using self-hosted WordPress for your blog is that it has a thriving plugin developer community. Plugins [...]

Simple Tips for Cleaning Up Your WordPress Dashboard

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How many times do you go into your dashboard? Some places you visit often. Other times you stumble around trying to find what you are looking for. Things take up too much space. You ask yourself, “Do I even freakin’ care about the “Other WordPress News?”  Heck, you have enough trouble just keeping up with [...]

Increase Clicks On Your Tweets By 200%

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Recently we looked at a lot of data and found some amazing stats: People that start to Buffer their Tweets increased clicks on links they posted by 200% within 2 weeks of using. The amount of retweets doubles on average. Finally Buffer users increase their follower count by 104 followers within 3 weeks on average. [...]

5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub

Social Media Hub

As the title of this post mentions, next week’s going to be a little different here. As well as the normal posts, you’ll also find 5 Days to Turn Your Blog Into a Social Media Hub. The online world’s moving fast. Social media is on everyone’s lips, and questions about how it can impact you and/or [...]