Monthly Archives: October 2007
Have You Broke Out of Your Blog Shell?
Blogging I spend a lot of time traveling the blogosphere, meeting other bloggers, reading posts and I guess you could say monitoring the competition. There is a lot of reasons I do this, the biggest of course being networking, which is important and vital to the success of you and your blog. As part of my regular rounds I stopped off to see what Darren was up to the other day and he had written a short post titled Your First 10,000 Blog Posts are Always ...
Continue readingVideo Blogging: Not Made for TV
Video Blogging Just because the root words of “vlog” is “video” and “blog”, that doesn’t mean that vlogging shares any of its fundamental principles with either of those media. Since blogs are not mainstream media content, they conform to an entirely different set of standards than print media. Well, the same is true of video blogs: they’re not made-for-TV clips, and are governed by entirely different rules of ...
Continue readingEver Consider Your Own Products & Services?
Promote your blog My blogging friend Yoav left the following comment on my blog saying that we should develop our own products: People are #1 but product is #2. You can have a 1,000,000 page views a day and do well with advertising, but why advertise other people’s product and make 1% of the money. Make a product and get a 100%. I think it is a concept worth exploring. Most bloggers focus on ads or selling affiliates products. How many actually have a ...
Continue readingHow much should you charge to blog?
Making Money A lot of clients want a rate quote before they’ll hire you as a blogger, and setting your fees can be tricky. Set them too high and you’ll be dismissed in favor of cheaper workers; too low and they’ll think you don’t respect your work enough to charge for it. So how do you decide what to charge? I try to consider a few different factors when setting my own rates. How much time will this take? If you’ll be spending a lot of time ...
Continue readingWrite like you’re (not your) selling newspaper subscriptions
Writing I recently ran across an interview of a USA Today columnist on television. During the interview a caller asked how much of her writing style was attributed to the “money factor”. The journalist, Which her name evades me, replied that during her 20 years at the newspaper she has loved writing her own style of writing but always has to be aware of how she will engage her readers and continue to sell News Papers in an industry that is ...
Continue readingThe Basics of the Basics
Blogging You can always cover the basics for whatever it is you blog about. Here's why returning to basics always works: People who have been involved in a field for a while lose sight of the basics, and will often appreciate the reminder. Readers who are new will appreciate posts on the basics for obvious reasons, but... Posting on the basics helps to attract new readers as well, because the basics are what they're looking for. You can speak from ...
Continue reading9 Grammar Rules all Bloggers Need to Know
Blogging, Writing Suffering from impotence, a man visits serveral doctors asking for help. All to no avail. Finally, out of desperation, he visits a witch-doctor. The witch-doctor gives him a potion that can only be used once a year and tells him to take it before he is ready to be intimate. Then, when the time is right he should say “1, 2, 3″ and his impotence will be cured for as long as he likes. The man asks, “How do I make the potion stop ...
Continue readingTraffic Bonanaza: A Magic Method To Get Your Blog Into Google News
Promote your blog If you’ve got a blog you want traffic; and you want to get as much traffic as you can every day. While there are many ways you can win traffic, there’s one method which is very simple and extremely effective. It can also be free. Here it is: use online press releases. I’m amazed that more bloggers don’t use this easy traffic-generating method. I suspect that’s because it seems complex. It’s not; if you’re writing posts and posting ...
Continue readingWhat would you do if you owned Problogger.net?
Blogging That’s more than exciting isn’t it? I want to ask all you bloggers out there – What would you want to do honestly, if you were the admin of Problogger.net? First I asked myself the question, and it was one of the toughest one that i faced recently. I would.. - Replace Darren’s photo with mine and declare to all reader’s in a post that I’m taking over ProBlogger. That would probably get me the most abused and ...
Continue readingLink to a blog : Will they link back?
Blogging There are a lot of reasons why we link to other blogs in our posts. Most of the time we link to a blog or blog post because it is relevant to the post we are writing however sometimes we will link to more popular blogs just so that they will sit up and take notice of our own blog. Although I don’t encourage anyone to only link to blogs which link back to you, you should be aware of how likely a blog is to link back to you when you link to ...
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