The 3 Most Dangerous Mistakes Bloggers Make and How To Avoid Them

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Many of you may remember the Arsenio Hall Show that was popular in the early ’90′s. In my humble opinion, it was one of the best talk shows ever aired. Roof! Roof! Roof! One of the frequent gag on the show was Hall driving and pondering his thoughts, referring to them as “things that make [...]

The Importance of Your First 50 Words

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What’s worse, someone not taking the time to even open your blog, or someone opening it, getting bored and leaving, never to read you again? Yesterday, Aaron wrote to you about the importance of writing awesome headlines. He did an excellent job, but the problem is that you read his post and stopped there. Your [...]

Power of titles in blogging and social media

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What you write as a title on your blog post and on your tweets has a radical effect on your message and how it affects people. In this blog post, I want to include a short video of the power of words and how a short change in the title can increase the amount of [...]

Why Most People Quit Blogging: 10 Ways to Avoid Princess Syndrome

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I ran across an amazing fact the other day. Most people quit blogging in the first 2-3 months. That crazy statistic smacked me right between the eyeballs. At last count, there were 31 million blogs in the U.S.—and there will be at least 34 million by the end of the year. Yet the Pew Research [...]

Why a Blog Disclaimer Is Just as Important as a Disclosure Message

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Recently, I spoke with Joe Hackman about blogger ethics and transparency (you can listen to the podcast here), and one of the things we chatted about was the topic of disclosure. My belief – and something we instill into any clients that have a blogger or social media outreach program in place – is that [...]

What Super Mario Bros Taught Me About Blogging

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I love video games. I’ve been playing them for most of my life and it’s nearly impossible to talk about the pure awesomeness of video games without talking about the Italian grand-daddy of popular platform games. With dozens of official versions and probably hundreds of unofficial ones spanning almost three decades, it’s safe to say [...]

Why We Don’t Charge For Blog Topics

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Here at For Bloggers By Bloggers, we offer free weekly blog topics every Saturday. A collection of various ideas, titles and niches, it’s to help bloggers get inspiration when they hit the blog topics wall. As bloggers, we know how difficult it can be to come up with just the right idea sometimes. It could [...]

Multi-Sensory Blogging: A Tale of Three Little Readers

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I confess. I don’t love in-person-networking events. I am an introvert. I don’t apologize for it. It’s what I am. And it serves me well as a writer and blogger. After an event, I know that I have some serious energy re-charging to do when I get back. Because being alone refuels me and being [...]

How To Stay Motivated As A Blogger: 8 Tips

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I love the Urban Dictionary . Here is their definition of motivation:          If you have been blogging for a while now, you have probably faced the question of how to stay motivated. Blogging, like so many things in life, takes energy, drive, enthusiasm and a good deal of motivation. No [...]