Blog By The Readers Blog Tips

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What is a blog? We’ve talked about it before and given you tips from our experiences, but sometimes it’s hard to know exactly what everyone thinks. In my opinion (and the opinion of many I know), a blog is much more than simply the ideas from its primary author. A blog is made up of [...]

Blogging of Good Quality, You Want

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Last week, Ron Burgundy stopped by the offices to lend his brain nuggets to the faithful readers of For Bloggers, By Bloggers. Well, have I got a treat for you this week! Via a shaky Skype connection to the Dagobah System, I got a hold of the miniature Jedi Knight all other Knights respect: Yoda. [...]

The Major League Baseball Guide to Pulling Out of a Blogging Slump

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Take a page from the Major League Baseball playbook and learn how to get out of your blogging slump.

Why You Don’t Want To Be A ‘Rockstar’ Blogger: The Trap of Clichés

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The old British comedy series Monty Python is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows. They had a way of flipping overused ideas upside down and making something new out of them. In one skit, John Cleese and company took the tired old cliché of the superhero and turned him into: “Daht-dah-dah-dah… Bicycle Repair [...]

Are You A Blogger Or Just Posting Stuff Online?

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A man walks into a pawn shop. He sees it hanging on a wall and give the man behind the counter $112 and drives home. Once safely at home, he opens his new case, pulls out the Fender Stratocaster he bought and begins to pluck strings. With no prior knowledge  of the instrument, he is [...]

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 [...]

Why Most People Quit Blogging: 10 Ways to Avoid Princess Syndrome

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I ran across an amazing fact the other day. Most people quit blogging in the first 2-3 months. That crazy statistic smacked me right between the eyeballs. At last count, there were 31 million blogs in the U.S.—and there will be at least 34 million by the end of the year. Yet the Pew Research [...]

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 [...]

The One Thing That Makes You Different From Everyone Else Just Like You

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Most days I have a pretty long commute to and from work. I’m not ashamed to admit that most of the time spent driving to and from is spend singing along to my favorite CDs or the radio. What’s weird is that normally I sound nothing like the artists with whom I prefer to sing [...]