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Growing Your Blog’s Editorial Team
Blogging, Productivity Blogging can be quite a huge task to undertake if you’re doing things alone. Earlier this week I listed some of the ways in which the blog publishing process can become a time-consuming task, outlining the fact that most bloggers (especially newcomers) are required to wear multiple hats. Research, writing, editing, formatting and syndicating a single article can take up a great deal of time, even for the most efficient people out there. ...
Continue readingBehind the Scenes of the Blogging Process
Blogging Blogging can be very time consuming, between the research, writing, editing, formatting and re-syndicating. But it’s all part of your job as a blogger. You are, in fact, a single person wearing many hats. And the necessity to take on so many roles is an oversight that many newcomers are unable to anticipate, despite warnings from weathered veterans. While several tools aim to streamline various aspects of the blogging profession, anyone ...
Continue readingThe Christmas Controversy as Your Blogging Platform
Blogging Thinking of blogging about the Christmas season? With the big day just over a week away, it’s an extremely prominent topic in more ways than one. From religion to retail (in some cases these are one and the same), Christmas takes over a good month of our year, dominating every corner of our culture. But we’re America. A melting pot of races and rituals, right? As such, the debate over Christmas’ ability to take over the ...
Continue readingUsing Twitter’s Recommended Apps to Get Ahead
Blogging Third party Twitter apps often have a destination site of their own–a landing page where you can interact with the app and your account there. As a blogger you can use this to your advantage by seeking placement on these sites of third party Twitter apps. Many of them include a recommendation system, displaying tweets and users relevant to their app. As others on Twitter utilize these apps, they will also be more likely to come across your ...
Continue readingTwitter Talk: Good or Bad for Your Blog?
Blogger Twitter was the most spoken word for 2009. That’s kind of a big deal, considering everything else that has gone on in the past year, from the election of the first African American president into the white house and a struggling economy to say the least. Yet Twitter was so frequently spoken about because of its presence as a communication hub, giving us a way in which to discuss all the things that we like to talk about–like Obama ...
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 readingThe Blogger’s Holiday Survival Guide
Blogging Between traveling, holiday parties, gift shopping and your regular every day activities, the entire month of December can be a blur. Don’t let blogging become a point of stress. Prepare for the holiday season as far as your regular blogging goes, and you will find yourself a ease with all the other things you need to deal with. Check out these survival pointers for blogging during the holiday season: Write about the big stuff. It’s ...
Continue readingUsing Evernote to Blog One Step Ahead of Yourself
Blogging You can’t remember everything, but the Evernote tool is a system that can remember everything for you. Having raised another $10 million in funding earlier this month, the mental bookmarking tool plans on further building out its service. For bloggers, Evernote is a tool that helps you become a better writer in the professional sense. The capabilities around future Evernote updates an the evolution of the space entirely will make for a ...
Continue readingStockpiling Blog Articles Gets You Ahead of the Game
Blogging You write because you are passionate. Your thoughts on a subject are converted into text, and that makes you feel good. Publishing this text in a blog gives you a sense of accomplishment. And having a permanence of legacy gives you a taste of eternity. You think of an idea and you email it to yourself so you don’t forget it later. That sentence you just created in your head has to be jotted down on notebook paper before it becomes a ...
Continue readingBenefits and Tips for Recurring Blog Subscriptions
Blogging As a blogger one of your revenue stream options is recurring revenue. You can set your blog up so that readers pay a subscription fee in order to access the content of your site. The benefit of this is that you receive incoming and positive cash flow on a regular basis. Another benefit is the supplemental or replacement income recurring subscriptions can bring in, minimizing your reliance on advertising placed on your site. Recurring ...
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