Monthly Archives: January 2008
Corporate policy on employee blogs
Blogging Most of us get a large percentage of our blogging material from work. Maybe you work with hilarious (intentionally or otherwise) colleagues, or you work in a particularly interesting industry – or one so boring that you have plenty of time to write about it. Regardless, we spend a huge chunk of our time at work, so naturally it gets reflected in our personal blogs. A lot of companies are starting to develop policies on employees who blog about ...
Continue readingReasons you should guest blog
Blogging Why in the world would anyone want to write content and give it to someone else to use on their blog? I mean our content is the life blood of our blogs, right? Well keep reading and I will share with you several reasons why you might want to write guest posts for other blogs. Exposure for your blog – Maybe you just started your blog and your looking to get word out about it. Guest blogging is a great way to tell a larger established group ...
Continue readingDo You Know Your Web Images? A Primer for the Beginner
Blogging In blogging, you need to a little about a lot. Take images in your blog posts, for example: there’s definitely a learning curve. Novice bloggers often don’t take into account how little they know about digital images. Image File Types There are three main image file types: GIFs, JPEGs, and PNGs. GIF stands for Graphic Interchange Format. Its file extension is .gif. It’s pronounced like a word, with either a hard or soft ...
Continue readingFive Ways to Hit your Readers in the Heart
Writing Note: This post is a two-parter, the second half: Five Ways to Hit Your Reader in the Head, can be found at my blog. This is the first part of the article and will focus on affecting readers emotionally with your posts. Writers make a thousand little decisions regarding each piece we write. Whether it is a song, an op-ed piece or a blog post, there are endless paths we could take to state our case or share a story. Many of these choices are made ...
Continue reading“Old School” Internet Marketing: Whatever Happened to Banner Impressions?
Promote your blog I started blogging almost three years ago (February 2005). As a long-time freelancer, I receive a lot of questions from freelances who are just starting out, subscribers to my newsletter, freelancers who knew me when I had my editorial staffing agency in New York, etc. Blogging made it easy to share information en masse and get immediate feedback. I recall those days fondly because I wrote with a pure sense of, “This is good to share.” ...
Continue readingFive Ways to Gain Credibility as a Blogger
Blogging How credible is your blog? The first time a visitor arrives at your blog, he looks for signals of credibility. He wants to know whether he can trust you. With so much junk online, establishing trust in your visitors is vital, otherwise their first visit will be their last. So how do you establish your credibility? Here are five ways: 1. Know what you’re talking about – have personal experience in the subject of your blog When you ...
Continue readingDo you want $250 free? There’s a competition around.
Around The Blogosphere Competitions are always nice isn’t it? Especially on the blogosphere, there’s always a competition running. Free ipods, iphones, free subscriptions and what not ? The prizes are always attractive, and that’s the fun about it. But, many a times, I’ve thought, had the prize been some cash in hand, I could’ve bought anything that I wanted. You know bloggers always need money to spend. To spend on hosting accounts, ...
Continue readingBlogging for Revenue
Making Money, Writing On my site, I recently found a way to make it possible to share Google Adsense revenue with my writers. I was pretty thrilled to be able to allow writers to post on my site and earn money. I am not a corporation and my site is young, so it would have been a long time before I could afford to front money to several writers. But it did stir up a debate, particularly when one high-profile freelance writing job site refused to post my listing (and ...
Continue readingWhy Blog?
Blogging Are you blogging for money – or for some other reason? Much seems to be made of the fact that it is possible to make money blogging. I make my living doing so, as do several people I know, but this was not the original idea behind blogging. It is also fair to say, despite the plethora of people telling you how easy it is to make money blogging – it is not that easy. Blogs started out as online diary and there are many reasons to blog ...
Continue readingFour Reasons You Should Never Buy Links For Your Blog Site
Promote your blog DON’T GET DESPERATE There are a lot of blog site owners who are willing to pay out any amount of cash they can find in their budgets to pay to shady promotion sites that are all too happy to take their cash and deliver a link to a big player in the internet world like YouTube or Problogger. These desperate site owners really have not a clue as to what damage they’re doing to their financial budgets. There are at least five other really ...
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