3 Simple Ways to Expand Your Blog Through Social Media

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How are you sharing your blog? How are you making sure your content is found and then shared? Are you promoting yourself via social networks, or are you leaving that to your readers? Do you make sure potential clients know about your blog, if you’re using it as a business platform? Are you simply using [...]

Why Successful Bloggers Always Win the M&Ms Game

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Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.

Why Successful Bloggers Always Win the M&Ms Game

armwrestle

Kids come to school with ideas already formed. About winning and losing. About being the best at something. About being stronger. Smarter. More cool. As a first grade teacher, I liked to shake things up a bit with my students. Challenge their little worlds. Get them to think differently.

Learn From the Social Network Giants When It Comes To Starting a Blog

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I’m a firm believer that, when it comes to starting a blog, your first post should set out your stall on what you hope to accomplish, and what you’ll be talking about. After all, you’re looking to (hopefully) attract an audience and build a community (in whatever shape that may be) – so it’s not a [...]

When Widget Love Becomes an Obsession

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All of us who love WordPress, love our widgets. You know—those little bits of code that work tirelessly in our sidebars and other places to offer useful and cool things? We sometimes find them on other sites and think, “Man, I have to get that one”. It’s like accessories for your car, your wardrobe, your [...]

5 Things @winecountrydog Taught Me About Social Media Branding

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Did you ever have an in-person meet-up with someone you’d first met on Twitter? And then they got tired and they took a little nap—under the table? Yeah, sounds like a bad bar tale, doesn’t it? But it happened to me. About 2 years ago, I met an amazing dog on Twitter. I became an [...]

Why Twitter and Blogging Go Hand in Hand

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I don’t think that Twitter will ever replace blogging or people will stop blogging because they are on Twitter. I think Twitter and blogging go hand in hand with one another. Twitter will always have that 140-character limitation and I don’t think they will increase the number of characters because 140-characters is actually the ideal [...]

15 Ways to Increase Your Blog Traffic with Irresistible Tweets

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When a post moves off your blog’s home page, fewer readers will see it. If it’s a piece you were particularly proud of, well, that can hurt. Maybe you wrote it just one month after you started blogging, so only three people read it. And one of them was your mother. Maybe Tuesday’s post was [...]

Content Hunters and Finding Your Blog’s Audience

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My wife and I moved into our first house last September. The process we went through to find the house lasted about 4 months, caused many marital disputes, 3 abandonments of looking at houses all and hundreds of miles put on my car.  It was one of the most enjoyably terrible experiences of my life, [...]