Give Your Children Away

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Conception. Something beautiful happened and after a time of growth will be introduced to the world. You’ll work harder and longer than you ever have before, but will be strangely more fulfilled. You become attached. You’ve watched them grow and for the first part of their existence, their survival has relied completely upon you and your [...]

How To Totally Screw Up Your About Page

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It’s easy to write blog post after blog post about your chosen field of interest (Well, not easy, but just go with me here). You could sit down at your keyboard and probably crank out a post about gardening/car repair/marketing tactics/(Your Interest) pretty damn easily. You might not even have given a second thought to [...]

Three Questions That May Save Your Blog

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Most of our time as bloggers is spent trying to answer questions we think our audiences will want to know or be asking. We research and read and theorize, coming up with pretty-sounding words that make us sound smart and knowledgable (and about 76.5% of us actually are, too!). The most interesting thing about all [...]

MindNode: The Best Blogging Outline Tool Ever?

MindNode

Disclaimer: I, nor For Bloggers, By Bloggers, am affiliated or being compensated by MindNode for this post in any way, shape or form. I am just an avid user of the tool and want to recount my experiences with it. Any flowing admonition of MindNode found in this blog is completely of my own will. [...]

A Steampunk’s Guide To Blogging Awesomeness

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Have you heard of Steampunk? No? I’m not surprised. It was new to me a little while ago too, but the more I look into it, the more I become enthralled by the beautiful mess it seems to be. For those of you not familiar with the trend, here’s the official definition:

Your Business Blog Sucks, Pt. 2 – Pitfalls

Pitfalls

Last week we talked about how much your business blog sucks. It’s definitely not a hopeless case, but you’re embarking on dangerous ground and just need to watch your step. No matter if it sucks or not at first, a lot of work goes into creating and running a quality business blog for your brand [...]

Your Business Blog Sucks, Pt. 1

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So, you’ve set up a blog for your business. You convinced the higher ups that you all needed one, they agreed and you got to work. It was easy at first, you set everything up just as you had with your personal one that was so much fun. You started mapping out what to write [...]

Fire Yourself

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Sometimes you’re just not getting the job done. Fire yourself. Hired Unless you specifically set out at the beginning to have a multi-authored blog, I bet you started writing it all by yourself. You heard stories and read books and saw other people doing it and thought, “Yeah, I’ll start a blog!” Maybe you came [...]

Please Retweet My Meat

Giant Sandwich

The perfect sandwich. We all scour the earth and existence for it. Whether you stop at every Subway in the country or buy the finest products and slave away in your Dungeon of Delicious. Vegetarian or Carnivore, War Pig or Pacifist, Republican or Democrat, Cinephile or Bibliophile, a good sandwich is something we can all get [...]