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Make Money from Blogging – Three Steps from Beginner to Pro

March 10, 2008

Even if you’re completely new to the concept of blogs, you can make money blogging. This is because blogging has now gone mainstream. Every business which has a Web site either has a blog too, or feels guilty because they don’t. So bloggers are in high demand. Not only are bloggers in high demand, experienced [...]

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Blog: make friends and influence people

March 4, 2008

TechCrunch reports that “A new study has found Bloggers are better adjusted and live healthier, happier social lives.” Blogging Is Good For Your Social Life: Study: “The research, from Swinburne University of Technology found that ‘people felt they had better social support and friendship networks than those who did not blog’ after a two month [...]

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Blogger for Hire: read the fine print

February 26, 2008

I’ve just written an article for Blogging Tips about getting blogging gigs once you’ve built up some experience on your own blog. (The post will be published on February 27, 2008.) One thing I didn’t mention in the post, was RIGHTS – as in, copyright. What rights are you selling when you blog for a [...]

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Blogging gigs: develop proposals for companies

October 16, 2007

Once you’re comfortable blogging, you begin to realize that there’s a whole world of blogging gigs available to you – not just the blog jobs which are advertised, but those which are not. Would you like to get gigs blogging for large companies which don’t have blogs? You can. Currently we’re at a unique place [...]

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Getting a blog job

October 3, 2007

Darren has a post with excellent advice for you if you’re hiring a blogger. In How to Advertise for a Blogger, he says: “Specific Ads Work Best – Ads for specific jobs tend to get a higher quality of applicant. Advertise for a ‘tech blogger’ or ‘entertainment blogger’ and you’ll filter out bloggers who are [...]

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Your blogging Web site or blog gets you blog jobs

September 28, 2007

One of the easiest ways to get a steady stream of blog jobs is to create your own blogging Web site and/ or blog. Your online presence establishes you as a blogger – it’s your sales agent and works for you right around the clock, every day of the year. It means you don’t need [...]

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Blogging with confidence: blog traffic is cumulative

September 23, 2007

If you’re a new blogger (blogging less than 12 months), you can become depressed if you pay too much attention to your blog stats. I know it’s difficult, because you want traffic NOW, but try to ignore your stats if you’re growing your blog organically. By “organically”, I mean you’re taking the scenic route to [...]

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Blog jobs – get a blog job or blog for yourself?

September 20, 2007

Should you blog for a network, or for yourself? I’ve been asked several questions about this over the past few days, so I might as well give my opinion here. In my blogging course, Blogging for Dollars (the course for which this blog is the companion site), I focus on two styles of blogging: pro [...]

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Five Easy Ways To Market Your Blogging Services

August 22, 2007

You’ve decided you’re now a blogger for hire. Congratulations. Now it’s time to plan your marketing strategy. Planning is vital, because marketing can be both frustrating and boring if you don’t turn it into a process. With a process, you can breeze along, happily ticking tasks off your To Do list and getting a sense [...]

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Getting hired to blog – the blogging gigs are out there

August 14, 2007

Blogging gigs are proliferating. I get several inquiries each week, most of which (the good ones) I pass on to other writers. Marshall Kirkpatrick has just started a private wiki to introduce professional bloggers and the companies which want to hire them. This is a great idea. Marshall has realistic ideas on pay for bloggers: [...]

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