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Your blog isn’t an indoor plant

August 24, 2007

There’s a lot of pressure on bloggers: “You must update every day.” “You must have at least 1000 posts…” “You must have fresh content…” Blogs can be pretty demanding, right? If you’re just starting blogging, the pressure of having to produce at least one blog post every day can put you off. And, if you [...]

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Giggle of the Day: I iz blogginz

August 11, 2007

Technorati Tags: blogging fun, humor Related PostsGiggle of the Day: The blogging consultant Another funny cartoon from hugh macleod at gapingvoid.Giggle of the Day: spam-beggingLorelle on WordPress posted a spam comment she received: “Hey, be a pal. Don’t delete this so…Giggle of the Day: the peasants and the kings of the blogosphereNick Carr’s very funny [...]

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Blog linking schemes and memes: gunpowder plots which can blow up your blog

July 1, 2007

Building links to your blog is an easy way to increase your traffic. The more links, the more traffic, so there are always a number of linking schemes and memes which are going on in the blogosphere, and between static Web sites. BUT there’s a real challenge, and it’s this: the search engines, specifically Google, [...]

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Blogging just for yourself

June 5, 2007

Lorelle has a lovely post, “Are You Blogging Your Passion or Blogging to Blog?”: Her great granddaughter said, “She spent so many years sad and unhappy with her life. The last three years she came alive and lived her passion fully.” A woman who once traveled by horse and buggy and lived the first 10 [...]

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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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Bloggers and blogging – are you determined to fail?

April 13, 2007

During the week I received an email message which took me to task for being “misleading” about blogging’s money-making potential. The writer said she had many blogs, and wasn’t making a high income; and she knew of many other bloggers who weren’t either. Here’s my response: Yes, I know that the money-making stats for 95 [...]

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Affiliate blogging: Introduce your readers to the products that YOU use

February 11, 2007

I’ve been talking about affiliate blogging, and how setting up blogs for your affiliate products is the easiest way to make money blogging. But many bloggers hesitate to get into affiliate blogging. In “The Proper Way To Do Affiliate Marketing” John Chow says: It is really too bad that bloggers don’t look at affiliate marketing [...]

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Proposals: how to get pro blogging gigs

January 16, 2007

As a freelance professional blogger, you can get work via job sites or out-sourcing sites, but the best way to work with the companies that you want to work with is to create a proposal. The biggest stumbling block to creating an irresistible proposal I’ve found is in my own mind. You need to give [...]

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Wishing you a Merry Christmas, and the best blogging year ever in 2007

December 23, 2006

(Cross-posted to my other blogs, Angela Booth’s Writing Blog and Fab Freelance Writing Blog.) Here in Australia it’s Christmas Eve already. It’s hard to believe that another year is almost over. Wherever you are in the world, have a great and joyous celebration. Stay safe. I wish you the compliments of the season, and the [...]

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Your fellow bloggers are colleagues, not competitors

December 8, 2006

In ‘Love Thine “Enemy”! It’s Good Business!’, Tom Peters says: At the top of my business priority list, I want my overall market to grow by leaps and bounds. My market share will go down (It was about 100% after In Search of Excellence, when I was more or less the only public “management guru”), [...]

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