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How to Pick a Niche, Create Content, and Become the Expert On Pink Two-Headed Snakes
Blogging If you’ve been reading up on blogging tips around the blogosphere, I’m sure you’ve come across an article telling you what going niche is all about and how you should go about it. For the newbies, let me explain this niche concept first. Typically, going niche (getting specific) gives your blog focus and a better chance of getting more readers as subscribers because online is different from offline. Offline, you go to a mall to ...
Continue reading5 Biggest Understatements from New Bloggers
Blogging A lot of people want to blog, and many of these people think that starting a new blog is simple stuff. If you’re doing your due research prior to launching your own blog, then please read on as I address some of the biggest misconceptions around blogging. I discuss these misconceptions not to ward off any potential bloggers, but to help them understand the process behind blogging. Knowing the information beforehand will help a great deal ...
Continue readingWriting Goals
Blogging Having a blog is a great way to get out there, but you need to do more than merely update your site with posts every week. You need to stay committed to your blog, which includes writing often and the site upkeep. However, being committed isn’t enough. You need to have goals. Most writers are thrilled when people visit their site and even happier when someone actually comments. These are, of course, wonderful things, but you should have ...
Continue readingJournalism Knows Best: Words To Watch
Promote your blog The best bloggers are like the best writers anywhere and they will take suggestions and advice from anywhere they can get it. The other day I was looking through my books and came across an edition of a style book for newspapers that I used back in the early 1980s. A lot of the rules that applied then are still good foundations to know today. It’s important to remember that the business of writers is to say exactly what they mean, no ...
Continue readingDo You Use Blogging Networks to Connect, Promote and Learn?
Blogging You’ve heard the saying: “It’s not what you know, it’s who you know.”, right? I don’t entirely agree with this. I think it should be both. In the battle for you and your blog to get ahead, you must have something of value to offer as well as people who will acknowledge this in supportive and meaningful ways. In the world of work, especially big business, people in the know are constantly networking with ...
Continue reading4 Ways To Post Longer Tweets on Twitter
Social Media Do you often find it hard to say what you want to say on Twitter due to the character restriction? If 140 characters is sometimes just not enough for you, these Twitter tools for posting longer tweets will definitely come in handy for you. Twitlonger lets you sign in via Twitter OAuth in order to post long blog-like posts on Twitter. It’s very simple, once you login you’ll get a large text area to write as much as you want. Even ...
Continue reading12 Effective Tips to Increase Your Blog Traffic
Promote your blog No matter what your reason for starting a blog, everyone has the same ultimate goal in mind; and that’s to attract traffic and capture a wider audience of readers. Bringing traffic to a blog can have a number of benefits; generally, it can increase a blogger’s credibility and voice online; generate revenue through ad usage and pay-per-click payment structures; and attract clients for a business. So how can you increase the traffic to your ...
Continue readingLight of Revision
Writing I recently read something by another writer about editing your work. The statement basically said she’d edited a certain work while she was in different moods and held it up to different light each time. In that one line, she captured and explained the whole revision process—the part many of us fail to utilize. As writers we forget to inspect our work from different perspectives (moods). We fail to see that different lighting can give us ...
Continue readingCombine Your Email, Facebook and Twitter with Threadsy
Social Media Threadsy is a unique tool that lets you bring all of your important messages together into a single interface. Threadsy currently supports: AOL mail, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo Mail, Twitter and Facebook. Your accounts are, of course, synced so if you delete an email message on Threadsy, it will also be deleted in your actual email account and so on. There are two columns which separate your inbound messages from your outbound messages. Inbound ...
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The Time-Strapped Blogger’s Guide to Self-Promotion
Promote your blog Life isn’t meant to be spent chained to that computer. Every now and then you just have to go out, get some fresh air, and do something with yourself. But if you’re at all serious about the success of your blog, living a life outside of the computer can seem like nothing more than a fanciful dream. Photo by Jen Dixon After all, you’re not famous, you’re not some superstar a-list blogger whose readers wait in agonizing ...
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