For Bloggers By Bloggers Weekly Review

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Is Twitter Helping or Hurting Your Blog?

Is Twitter Hurting Your Blog?

Call me old fashioned, but I’m still a Twitter junkie. I laugh at recent comments about its pending death. Ask a person involved in any of the recent conflicts around our world if they think Twitter is helpful? We may use it differently now, but I do not believe it is going away anytime soon. [...]

The Fine Art of Saying “I’m Sorry”

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We all mess up at some point. Nobody’s perfect, not even you. Maybe you wrote a post preemptively that turned out to have a bunch of misinformation floating around in it. Maybe you wrote a post out of anger and said a lot more hurtful things than you meant to and now that is floating around the [...]

Calls to Action in Your Blog Posts

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I have lost count of the times when teaching a blogging seminar that one of the audiences tells me you are not allowed to sell in a blog post. Then they wonder loudly why their blog doesn’t generate leads. Another moan I hear is how no one shares their content. My response is, “Did you [...]

Who’s Sitting In Your WordPress Sidecar? 5 Tips for Creatively Using Custom Sidebars

Whose Sitting in Your WordPress Sidebar?

When the For Bloggers By Bloggers blog made the switch back to Headway, it reminded me of what attracted me to this theme in the first place. One of the major benefits was that I was finally able to customize my sidebars. Since then, other themes have done the same and there is now even [...]

Lessons From Roy Orbison on Being a Better Blogger

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Roy Orbison is my favourite singer ever. Period. Sure, Steve Perry from Journey is awesome, as is Brad Delp from Boston. And Michael Bolton in his early days – before becoming a housewife favourite – could rock with the best of them. But Roy – also known as The Big O after one of his [...]

Blogging Tip: Word Count – Schmerd Count

Blogging Tip: Word Count

What is the correct length for your blog posts? How many words? Ahh, we have stumbled into this much debated subject. Too long, too short, just right. How is it determined? My two cents worth: Write for your reader and forget counting words.  In fact – writing for your reader trumps all the usual hotly debated topics [...]

Telling A Story That Doesn’t Suck

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Are you telling a good story? What about a bad story? Are you telling a story at all? Whether we’re talking about Gamification, Social Media Strategy or blogging, you need to start thinking in terms of telling your story. Think you don’t have one and you’re just relying on your knowledge and experience to lead you through your writing? [...]

When Widget Love Becomes an Obsession

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All of us who love WordPress, love our widgets. You know—those little bits of code that work tirelessly in our sidebars and other places to offer useful and cool things? We sometimes find them on other sites and think, “Man, I have to get that one”. It’s like accessories for your car, your wardrobe, your [...]