From the monthly archives:

May 2007


Pro Blogging: How To Turn Blogging Into A Full-time Career

May 30, 2007

Blogging is now mainstream, with businesses of all sizes realizing that they need a blog. However, most businesses don’t have the staff who know how blogging works; nor do they want to commit staff time to a project which can be easily out-sourced. This is where you come in – the pro blogger, a professional [...]

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Blogging’s mainstream now: even doctors are blogging

May 29, 2007

If you imagine that blogging’s still a niche activity, consider that even doctors are blogging now – About 1 percent of all blogs deal with health, according to a 2006 study by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Many are by consumers writing about their own health issues, but “the numbers of health care [...]

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Home Business Blogging: How a blog can help your business

May 28, 2007

One of the major challenges of any small business is marketing – promoting your business and getting publicity for it. If you’re the sole operator, or are part of a small team, then doing the work takes precedence over ensuring that new work keeps rolling in. Or, if you’re selling products, fulfilling orders takes precedence [...]

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Allow your loyal readers to buy you a beer (or a coffee)

May 28, 2007

You work hard posting to your blog, and you provide valuable information for your readers. But if they want to show their appreciation, there’s no easy way for them to do it. Now there is – they can buy you the beverage of your choice with the Buy Me A Beer PayPal Donation WordPress plugin. [...]

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Content is king, but you’ve got to SELL on your blog

May 27, 2007

Why are you blogging? It’s a question you must ask yourself, and you must know the answer. I give free consultations with my Blogging for Dollars ebook package, so I see a lot of new blogs. One of the most common problems I see with new blogs is that the bloggers are not clear on [...]

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Blogging as a home business tool: a new competition

May 26, 2007

How’s blogging working for you? Working At Home On The Internet has an excellent competition – you can win a copy of WordPress maven Lorelle VanFossen’s new book, but more to the point, you can share what’s working (or not working) for you, as the case may be, in using a blog to grow your [...]

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Blogging from your desktop: free Blog Desk

May 26, 2007

Blogging from a desktop application is much easier than blogging right in your blog platform – usually. My primary writing computer is a Mac, so I blog using ecto (it’s also available for Windows machines), but I’ve heard good things about a free Windows desktop blogging application, Blog Desk. Give it a try. Technorati Tags: [...]

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You can start your blog publishing empire with next to nothing

May 25, 2007

Here’s a great article “Got 100 dollars? 7 Experts share budget website marketing tips” on how to build your blogging empire (or any online enterprise) with next to nothing. I particularly like this quote from Todd Malicoat (aka Stuntdbl): I don’t think there is one sure fire plan based on the amount of money you [...]

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Your blog stable – six tips on managing a network of blogs, all by yourself

May 22, 2007

Blogs are fun. And they make money. So if one blog is good, ten blogs must be super-good, right? Yes, if you know that you can manage a large stable of blogs. My own blogs have been sprouting all over, breeding blog-puppies. (There’s a list of my current writing blogs below.) Pro bloggers blog for [...]

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Get blogging, get discovered

May 22, 2007

Blogs make you visible, online and offline too. “Writing a Blog Can Help You Land a New Job” states: …recruiters and employers, along with Internet companies are using these online journals to search for talent. “Blogs are a great way to find employees,” Russell Glass, of ZoomInfo, said. In fact, Glass has hired people for [...]

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