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A Quick and Unlikely – Yet Obvious – Checklist for Your Blog
Blogging So many blogging tips, so little time. The nice thing about a good tip in any arena is that it remains timeless. In fact, one of the best and most universal of all tips – blogging or otherwise – is to recycle the basic tenets of effectiveness. Athletes do it every year in pre-season training camp. Musicians do it every time they rehearse. Pilots do it every time they take to the air. Writers should do it, too. Even if the process ...
Continue readingWhy Feedburner Doesn’t Love Us Anymore
Blogging I almost feel guilty about positioning this as a problem. With earthquakes devasting an entire nation, with the U.S. economy sending the world economic markets into the crapper, this one isn’t on a level to legitimately describe it as a nightmare. But it sure felt like one. Like so many other bloggers who are foolish enough to obsess over their Feedburner number, I woke up two days ago to a worst-case scenario from blogging hell: my ...
Continue reading10 Questions You Should Ask and Answer About Your Blog
Blogging Far be it from me to wax academic about the advanced nuances of blogging. Hell, I’ve been online for seven months – still in the freshman hazing phase – and I’m learning new stuff every day. That initial journey, however, becomes a reference point for all of us. This is a simple sharing of one blogger’s journey in terms of what I understand now, seven months in, that I didn’t understand in the beginning. When expressed as ...
Continue readingA New Year’s Message for Bogged-Down Bloggers
Blogging This is Bloggingtips.com. It’s supposed to be about tips. Here’s one: don’t give up. Here’s another one: don’t get down on yourself or this process. It’s all upside from here. Now if that seems ridiculously simplistic, allow me to elaborate. I’m sitting here at one in the morning, an hour after Ryan Seacrest helped Dick Clark (God love him) lower that over-priced crystal ball toward one million drunk Times Square partiers ...
Continue readingGuest Blogging – How to Make It Count
Blogging When I got into this thing called blogging six months ago, I quickly realized that the best thing I had going for me was an experienced mentor who was willing to tolerate my inane questions I knew absolutely nothing. And I had a million questions. The first of which was, how do I grow my new website? One of the first things he told me with regard to growing my new baby blog was that if I wrote it well enough, other bloggers might invite me ...
Continue readingKneel Before the Mistress of Mistakes
Blogging Edgy, huh. Two weeks ago I posted a blog here with the word flagellation in the title, and it seemed to work pretty well. At least if Google analytics is to be believed. And now you’re back, wondering what dark treats we have in store this week. Our theme today: cut corners with your blog and you will be punished. For me, the Mistress of Mistakes is my wife. For the first few months of my blogging experience I tended to hit the PUBLISH button ...
Continue readingThe Secret Weapon Every New Blogger Should Have
Blogging Back in the day, when I was in the ad biz as a creative director, I often marveled at the so-called “creative partnership” between writers and graphic designers. As one would marvel at, say dogs and cats sharing a dish of meat. That’s how it works at most agencies of any size, they have these little pods of creativity, pairings that at first compete with other pods for the best assignments, then become the primary creative engine for ...
Continue readingBetter Blogging Through Self-Flagellation
Blogging Unlike a lot of you out there, I don’t hang out with other bloggers. I don’t go to the conventions, I’m not on Darren Rowse’s Christmas card list. Not because I choose not to, but because I don’t really know any other bloggers. In fact, I didn’t know who Darren Rowse was until a couple of weeks ago. Wouldn’t know him if he delivered a pizza to my door in the next ten minutes. Oh, I remember now, he’s the guy who was too ...
Continue readingThe Blog Alliance Strategy – Shallow or Sincere?
Blogging Back in my corporate days I worked with a killer sales person. She was positively Machievellian (perhaps an ironic contradiction in terms) in her tactics, yet her numbers set the standard for account acquisition and growth. She was also a lovely person, sincere and giving and very charismatic. Which was why her most powerful sales strategy always struck me as, well, creepy – she would go out of her way to make friends with prospective ...
Continue readingHow To Handle a Heckler, And Why It’s Good to Have ‘Em Around
Blogging If you’ve been to a live stand-up comedy show and witnessed someone foolish enough to take on the headliner with an onslaught of barbs and caustic bon mots, you probably noticed how the performer didn’t miss a beat in eviscerating the inebriated fool with untouchable, unfathomably witty barbs. Almost as if they’ve heard it all before. Almost as if it had been planned. The crowd loves it. The performer loves it. The heckler, not so ...
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