You see the word ‘blog’ a lot these days. It seems like everyone has a blog, from grandmothers to garden supply stores. What started out as a few bored geeks posting online diaries has rapidly grown into a phenomenon that’s difficult to describe.
Just what constitutes a blog? Can a series of posts about a company’s product, peppered with links and keywords and SEO terms, really be considered in the same category as a thirteen year old’s MySpace journal written entirely in bad haiku? With such a range of options out…
In the space of 2 days I have received around 20 emails via my ad on the problogger boards for some new authors on Blogging Tips.
One of the things that has astounded me is how little time some bloggers spend on their application email for a blogging position. Your first email to a company is the most important one, they do not know who you are so your first email determines their first impression of you and if that impression isn’t good there might not be a second email!
When applying…
A few months ago I posted on a forum that I was looking for some authors for BloggingTips. I didn’t find anyone at that time so I put it to the side until Mark from 45n5 posted about how he is hiring a writer for one of his blogs, this inspired me to get off my lazy ass and get something done about it. Most of the writers I contacted were quoting a few hundred dollars a month for posting so I was a bit skeptical at first when Mark assured…
Most bloggers know the importance of writing, but, to actually write as much as we would like can be difficult. It is not just about writing for our own blog; we should also try to occasionally write for other blogs or ezines. The more we can write, the more we can help our blog to grow.
These are some of the common Stumbling blocks to writing and what we can do to overcome them:
1. Procrastination.
Procrastination is easy on the internet. We have countless RSS feeds to read, forums to visit, blogs…
Blogging is all about content, it’s all about writing. Yet it’s one of the things that most bloggers neglect and rarely try to improve. Truth being told, I’m more guilty than anyone else when it comes to taking time out to improve my writing.
A week or so ago there were a few comments left on some of the posts I wrote asking for me to improve my writing. More specifically, I was using the lowercase i instead of I in most of my posts and had not put apostrophes in…
