Three Questions That May Save Your Blog

Questions

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

steampunk

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

Stinky

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

Man after being fired

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 [...]

Christmas Tips To Make Your Writing Better in 2012

Pieces fitting together

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 [...]

Blog If By Plane, Blog If By Train

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There are many ways to think about blogging. There are even more ways to actually blog. Today I’m going to quickly introduce you to two ways to think about how you blog and frame information for your readers. Neither one of these techniques is better than the other and both need to be in the [...]