Don’t do This Alone! How to Score it Big Time with a Blogging Tribe

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OK, so you keep reading these blogging tips on how all you need to do to become a successful blogger is to write great content and people will find you, blah, blah, blah… You and other million people that are doing the same thing. You can’t wait for the success to happen to you, you [...]

How Writers Are Taught To Stink, And How To Throw The Smell Off Forever

I know. I get it. This should be a time for serving eggnog, not swift kicks to the pants. But there are too many people who need it this holiday season. If you’re a talented, creative, funny, one-in-a-million type of writer who isn’t getting any responses on your blog, you should ask yourself whether the [...]

5 Traits of Lazy Bloggers

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You know the signs of blogging success, you see them everywhere: subscribers, social proof, comments, flash car, mansion overlooking the beach… This post is a little different, you see like success, failure can creep up on you. It can be as simple as you think you’ve made it, so you stop trying. It can be [...]

Don’t Storm Through Your Blog – How to Work for Real Results

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I could say blogging is hard work, but instead, I want to say it is really time consuming. It takes hours to research a post, write it, edit, re-read, re-edit, find images, optimize it a bit for search engines, publish, promote, be active on social media and so on and so on. A lot of [...]

Why You Need Different Media Content in Your Posts and How to Add It for Free

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There aren’t many blogs today that use text only to present their content. We all know having a variety of media makes content look better and keep people longer on site. Depending on the niche you are in, and the social media you want to win over, you may even have to have different forms [...]

What Makes a Great Blog Post? [Infographic]

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Sometimes it’s hard to remember that great blog posts are often simple in construction. Here’s a little reminder.

7 Things That Make You Look Like a Total Amateur Blogger

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It completely confuses me when I land on a blog I can see has been around for awhile, yet when you see it, it screams “beginner”. Why wouldn’t you change these few things at the very beginning and not worry about them later? Because some of them just make you look really… inexperienced…

How To Prevent Content Creation Burnout

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It takes some bloggers a long time to realize that creating content every single day isn’t necessarily the “make or break” of their blog. Usually, by the time they realize it – they are already experiencing burnout. It is interesting to think and read about it if you are a beginner, because you are sure [...]

5 Tools You Need Throughout Your Whole Blogging Career

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I’ve been trying to write a lot of reminders for bloggers beginners lately here, and it seems those type of posts are received great with beginners as well as those of us who have been in it longer. We tend to skip basics often, thinking how we know it all and don’t need to be [...]