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Every blog should have an About Me page. No matter what you call it – Meet Frank, About Shirley or just the straightforward About Me – your blog should have a page that informs your readers of: 1. Who you are 2. What you do 3. How you can help/inform/work with them With that being [...]
Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, would have been a kick-ass blogger. He died in 1991, 8 years before blogs, short for weblogs, even had a name. Still one of the most loved children’s book authors in the world, Dr. Seuss wrote 4 of the 10 all-time bestselling books in kid lit. Generations of [...]
Do you here the wind whistling through your blog. What’s up with those tumbleweeds? A little dusty around the edges eh? It sucks when you work so hard to setup and build your blog and then no one shows up for the party. You write and share, but only a trickle of readers flow in. [...]
Like Santa, it comes around once a year. Unlike Santa, usually it’s dreaded and you end up with less stuff than when you started. I’m talking, of course, about Spring Cleaning. I’ll be honest, not everything about blogging is fun. Some things flat out suck. This is one of those things and I wouldn’t blame [...]
Sometimes we write a single blog post, we send it out into the world and it becomes an instant—and unexpected— hit. Lots of page views, lots of social media sharing, lots of responses and questions in the comments. We didn’t plan to write more on that topic, but we see that our readers would like [...]
from Dictionary.com Today’s post is a bit different. If you search our friend Google for the keyword “creativity” you are sure to find several items like: 18 Ways To Unleash Your Creativity or 10 Steps To Boost your Creativity or even 475 Ways To Unlock Your Creativity. All good reads I’m sure. Don’t get me [...]
(Picture from: Spillly.com; Artwork by: Hugh MacLeod, Gapingvoid.com) One hundred and fifty-four million, four hundred and forty thousand blogs go completely and utterly unread. Let me write that number out for you so you can really take it in: 154,440,000 That’s not even the number of blogs yours is actually competing with, those are just [...]
Last week I shared an astounding fact. Most people quit blogging in the first 2-3 months. My theory was that too many people have Princess Syndrome. But there just may be some other reasons. Things we’ve been told that don’t always prove to be true. Here they are: the 7 biggest lies about blogging: 1. [...]
As blogging and bloggers come under closer scrutiny to disclose professional relationships or sponsored posts, one of the best ways to adhere to this is to have a blanket disclosure policy. While it’s only the U.S. and the U.K. that require disclosure by law at this time, thanks to the FTC and ASA becoming involved [...]
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