Portrait of a Successful Blogger

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I have been blogging now for a few years and I love every second of it. Okay, I lied – I hate when I can’t get my writing mojo in gear and come up with a good post. Other than that, I love every second of it. As I was thinking about this post, I [...]

7 Ways To Integrate Social Media Into Your Blogging

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So we talk a lot on here about blogging and rightly so, given the name and URL of the site. Today I’m going to give you a few ways to make sure that what you write actually reaches the people you’re aiming for. One thing you might not know about me is that I run [...]

8 Ways to Collect Enough Blog Post Ideas for the Next 100 Years

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Grapes of Wrath author John Steinbeck once said, “Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.” He’s right. Successful bloggers are always watching and listening—on the lookout for new ideas. And the more you listen, the more you seem to find. In [...]

5 Reasons Not to Give Up Your Blog Because of Twitter

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Have you been neglecting your blog? Are you spending time on social networking sites like LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter trying to “master” the way to make money and not spending time on your blog? Maybe someone told you that blogs are dead and it’s time to bury it? @Markwschaefer wrote a blog post regarding this [...]

The Looney Tunes Blogging Technique To Audience Expansion

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So, here we are. 2011. You’ve probably got big plans this year for your blog or your business, right? You’ve already been reading on how to expand your reach and get your blog noticed this year. Let’s further that a little bit, shall we? I thought long and hard about what I wanted to bring [...]

5 Guaranteed Ways to Get Your Blog Noticed More

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Ask pretty much any blogger what the biggest challenge was when they first started blogging, and getting their blog noticed will probably be one of the most popular answers. While we all want to be a Problogger or Copyblogger from the off, it’s probably not going to happen (unless you’re friends with either Darren Rowse [...]

Quick Tip: Stuck for Blogging Ideas? Check Out the WordPress Post a Day Challenge

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While you can pay folks to give you ideas for blogging, the good people over at WordPress have come out with a pretty cool (and free!) idea to help you post daily or weekly (depending on your blogging mindset). Called the Post a Day Challenge 2011, it offers you daily post topics to write about [...]

Will You Find Time to Blog in 2011 in Unexpected Places?

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You want to blog more. You really do. Maybe it’s even one of your goals for 2011. But it’s tough when every available chunk of time in your day is spoken for. Have you ever wondered if a few minutes here and there could add up—if you could just find them? When my daughter Kelly [...]

The Christmas Technique for Blogging

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‘Tis that time of year again. That holly, jolly time of year when we wrap gifts and kiss under the mistletoe. Fat men in red suits ring bells on streets and temperatures drop while hearts warm with pleasant company kept. But just what does all that have to do with your blog? Go Tell It [...]