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Understanding Your U.S.P. As a Blogger
Blogging Ever wake up and wonder why you’re here? Not as a reader — we all know why we come to Bloggingtips.com, it’s for the content — but as a writer. Ever faced that empty little window in WordPress and wondered the same thing for your blog? I do that each time I sit down to write this post. Every Thursday, in fact. Why? Because the rest of you intimidate the hell out of me. You really do. What, I ask my insecure ...
Continue readingGrow Your Blog through Better Commenting
Blogging On Day One of your blogging journey some guru told you – no doubt in her or his own blog on blogging – that one of the best ways to grow your site is to comment on the blogs of others. It’s the proverbial slow road to riches, or even gas money, to be sure. You see a lot of entrepreneurial tortoises crawling slowly down this path, but few hares because they’ve have pretty much been stomped into roadkill. Maybe you commented on that ...
Continue readingThe Secret Weapon of Growing Your Blog
Blogging So I get up early this morning, hell bent to write this post based on another idea entirely. And there waiting on my morning email is the latest Bloggingtips.com masterpiece by Kristen Nicole, and everything changed. Because she’s so right: don’t be a scaredy cat blogger. Today I’m here to take that one step further. What I’d planned can wait. This can’t. Because what Kristen shared is the tip of a ...
Continue readingThe Four Flavors of Blogging
Blogging Let me open with a short rant. Will somebody please tell the spelling gods at MS Word that “blog” and “blogging” no longer deserve that annoying red underscore? I’m just sayin’. Of course, if you compose your blog straight onto WordPress (another red underscore there… doesn’t anybody at MS blog?), you wouldn’t know. Which I’m guessing is the prevailing case here on Bloggingtips.com. Which brings me to my title and my ...
Continue readingHere a tip, there a tip, everywhere a tip tip…
Blogging Okay, a cheesy headline, I grant you. But you’re curious. That makes going cheesy a tip, of sorts. Actually, I’m writing this blog at the behest, and approval, of Bloggingtips.com Head Cheese (though not remotely cheesy) Kevin Muldoon, who is nothing if not a guy who takes good care of his bloggers. He knows I have a new ebook just out, and he’s offered me the use of the site to post this entry to help get the word out. ...
Continue readingAttack of the Serial Blogger
Blogging The eternal challenge of blogging is to lure readers back for more. Branding helps — your reader knows what to expect so they stay with you. Provided, of course, that you continue to deliver. You get about two or three shots for that to happen, then they’re gone. When you set the bar high, it’s incumbent upon you to leap over it each and every time. Once your brand is solidly in place, there’s an even better ...
Continue readingBlogging for Results: Whose Face Are You In Today?
Blogging If you happen to have a teenager, then you know how this feels: you have something important to share, you want to teach, and your intentions are pure and loving. Even if you come off sounding like a self-righteous politician who’s just been caught with their knickers down. Because you know you’re right. And still, the fruit of your loins looks back at you – or more likely, not – like they’d rather be having a root canal. Your kid ...
Continue readingStorytelling – The Magic Pill of Blogging
Blogging Once upon a time there was a novelist who wanted to be a blogger. Having never blogged before, he lamented that he had nothing to offer the so-called blogosphere, and feared he would quickly be labeled an outcast, tossed under the literary bus where the rest of his career resided. But the novelist did have an agenda to promote. What blogger doesn’t, he rationalized, and so he pressed forward into this strange new world. Hearing of ...
Continue readingWrite a Better Blog – 3 Ways To Really Reach Your Reader
Blogging All this technical comisseration and mentoring in the art of the blog… it’s a beautiful thing. Especially for writers like me, who come to blogging from a different place than, say, budding online entrepreneurs and creatively inspired geeks (and I say that with respect and much love, and now that I am one, pride). It reminds me of a group of tennis players who get together to discuss string tension and debate the merits of yellow ...
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