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 [...]

Want to Make Your Blog the Best it can be? Here’s the List!

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Seems like I am one of those people that often go by “Do what I say, not what I do”. but I do learn from the things I’ve done wrong So in an attempt to prevent you from making the same mistake, let me try and streamline your blogging education a bit with a few useful tips [...]

Prepare Your Blogging Christmas List

Blogging Christmas List

It’s that time of year again. You’ve survive Thanksgiving and al that food, you’ve survive being trampled on Black Friday and your checking account barely survived Cyber Monday. Now it’s that time of year to pull out the tinsel and get ready for the jolliest holiday of all. It’s also the time of year to [...]

Christmas Tips To Make Your Writing Better in 2012

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Want to know a secret? There are two simple rules to follow to make sure your writing is applicable and accessible for any audience you’re writing for. Since it’s Christmas, I’m in the giving mood and am going to share with you the rules and their uses. Keep in mind, these will work for any [...]

Four Reasons Your Blog Is Dying

Four Reasons Your Blog Is Dying

Blogs more numerous to count are started each and everyday. A good percentage of those blogs will never make it past 90 days. Many more will fail in the first six months, with a huge number lying dormant in the first year alone. So why is it that so many blogs die, and what can [...]

5 Steps for Guaranteed Blogging Success

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“Now, the making of a good compilation tape is a very subtle art.  Many do’s and don’ts.  First of all, you’re using someone else’s poetry to express how you feel.  This is a delicate thing.” Rob Gordon (High Fidelity) In honor of John Cusack and Stephen Frear’s wonderful adaptation of Nick Hornby‘s novel High Fidelity, I [...]

B90X: Extreme Blog Fitness

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  Yesterday I started the P90X Extreme Home Fitness program. I just made it through the Fit Test and am happy to announce that I passed with flying colors, although now I’m typing this with sore muscles and not looking forward to when Tony Horton is actually trying to hurt me. The focus of the [...]

The Dr. Seuss Guide to Fearless Blogging: 7 Timeless Lessons

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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 [...]

Blogging And The Way Of The Dandelion

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It become apparent to me over the weekend that I was definitely losing the battle for control of my yard to the weeds. Even though weeds aren’t the most welcomed or popular things to appear in a yard, it got me thinking about how in essence we want our messages and blogs to spread like [...]