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Two Cool Strategies and a Joke
Blogging Sometimes we bloggers take ourselves oh-so-seriously. The work we do is serious, our intentions are serious, and there are stakes. Both for us and for our readers. That said, it’s good to share a laugh once in a while among writers. And, I have to add, with our readers, too. But first, you need to tolerate two tips I’ve just stumbled upon. As in, literally stumbled. Two approaches in my recent experience that yielded unexpected, ...
Continue readingNewsflash: This Stuff Really Works!
Blogging This is going to be a little different. My posts usually are, frankly, but this one is personal. I’d like to share the story of the last 24 hours of my life. Which, for me at least, represents a discovery of the inherent potential of online marketing and the importance of listening to the wisdom of our blogging elders. Which ain’t me, by the way. Even though I’m here every week, waxing oh-so-confidently knowledgeable. Fact is, ...
Continue readingConquering the Intimidation Factor
Blogging I don’t know about you, but when I started blogging I found the whole thing more than a little intimidating. And on many levels. First off, the requisite software seemed like rocket science. I’ve come to appreciate it, but my online survival – dare I say, sanity – depends on the close proximity of a techie who I happily pay to keep me from blowing up my WordPress page. Say What? The language of blogging itself was – and remains – ...
Continue readingHow To Plug an eBook on Your Blog
Blogging Most bloggers have an agenda. Frequently that agenda is to use their blog to brand themselves within a given niche. If done right, just as frequently it does just that. Which means you can leverage that brand to sell stuff. It is a noble strategy, because for the most part blogging is about the delivery of value to the reader – free being the operative albeit implied word here – and one that can and very often does include the schlepping of ...
Continue readingThis Time It’s Personal
Blogging I run an instructional blog for fiction writers. To be honest — a risk here – I like to think of it as an instructional resource, avoiding the term “blog” altogether. Not that there’s anything remotely wrong with the word. Heck, that’s precisely what happens on my site. I blog my ass off five times a week, and am proud of it. But that word… it sounds like something that ends up on the ...
Continue readingWhy You Should Host a Guest Blogger
Blogging Go ahead, take a day off. You’ve earned it. Your blog really can live without you, at least for a day or two. That is, if you do it right, and for the right reasons. Sometimes it can be good thing to just get out of the way. To step aside and hand the baton to someone else, while you reap the benefits of your hospitality from the cheap seats. Especially when that someone has a bigger name than you do. W hich, unless ...
Continue readingDon’t Listen to “The Voices”
Blogging They’re out there. They really are. I can’t think of a better blogging tip than this one. Because anybody — blogger, journalist, letter writer… anybody – who has faced a blank screen has heard “the voices” of self-doubt. Just Don’t Listen Because those voices of doubt are lying to you. The voices come from within, even when you recognize them as echos of others. If you don’t ...
Continue readingList vs. Listless — 14 Ways to Focus Your Blog
Blogging Lists are everywhere here in blogland. They’re prevalent in magazines, too, especially in how-to and enthusiast publications, and more than a few grocery checkout tabloids. We should pay attention to the latter and take care what we emmulate in our blogs. Because we, as bloggers, have a higher standard to strive for. But that’s not my soap box today. Today is about promising a long list of valuable points in a 700 word blog, ...
Continue readingThe Best Reason of All to Blog
Blogging At least, if you’re a writer at heart. If you’re an entrepreneur first and foremost, then blogging becomes a strategy, a means toward another end than simply writing something others will read. But if you’re nothing other than a writer – and I say that with the greatest of empathy, because being a writer is definitely something – blogging can save your life. There’s nothing inherently wrong with blogging in support of an ...
Continue readingBlogger Beware the Lowest Common Denominator
Blogging Once in a while you’ll read someone waxing philosophical about how blogging is changing – maybe even saving – their otherwise troubled life. Now that I’m up to my elbows in reader comments and WordPress plug-ins, I understand this more than ever. Especially lately. Because lately one of my guest blogs on a major writing site has come under full frontal attack. Not because I put something out there worthy of the smackdown it became, ...
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