Archive for the ‘Blogging Advice’ Category
Wednesday, December 31st, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One fear many business bloggers seem to have is running out of stuff to say. They know blogs are supposed to be updated on a regular basis, so their fear is definitely legitimate.
When blogging expert, Chris Garrett, tackled this issue on Blog Herald, I took notice. He’s a prolific blogger with over 500 [...]
Tuesday, December 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Andy has a simple but effective tip for business bloggers. He writes:
Sign your blog posts with your name, not your credit union’s name.
He’s writing for credit unions since that’s the industry he covers, but any online business would do well to follow his tip.
Basically, he’s reiterating one of the fundamentals to blogging and social [...]
Sunday, December 28th, 2008 | No Comments »
I don’t usually post on Sundays especially during NFL season :) I’ve pretty much obsessed with American football and today has a lot of big games.
However, I have this simple but effective blogging tip that just came to me and it shouldn’t take too long to write.
Getting writer’s block while you’re in the middle [...]
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, I talked about how your business blog can help you create profitable online partnerships. Today, let’s look specifically at some of those partnership opportunities. This list is not meant to be comprehensive. These opportunities are just some of the common ones I’ve seen.
Link Exchange
Link exchanges are link swaps. A blogger [...]
Thursday, December 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Happy holidays!
On this Christmas day, I’ve been thinking about the similarities between business blogging and the holiday spirit.
Now when I say “holiday spirit”, I’m not talking about the crazy consumerism where people get overly materialistic and spend too much at the mall. Nor am I talking about the stress that often accompanies this season [...]
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As you get into blogging and start getting traffic, you’ll probably start receive link exchange requests. These are email messages from other bloggers asking you to link to them in exchange for them linking to you. Usually they will link to you on their blogroll, which are links to other blogs on their [...]
Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008 | 7 Comments »
You may have heard of the the 5 Ws and the 1 H. This is a set of six questions that journalists over the years have answered to make sure their news stories have the complete information. Each of the six questions is a just one word.
Who?
What?
Where?
Why?
When?
How?
As a blogger I’ve found that these [...]
Monday, December 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
I finally created an about page for one of my blogs. It’s a task that I always seem to forget. I was creating a post introducing myself on a forum when I realized that I had not done the same on my blog.
Since blogs are personal in nature, you can be more personal [...]
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
The EzineArticles blog has a great post about a method of “writing” multiple blog posts in a short amount of time. I put “writing” in quotes because you don’t actually write anything.
Instead, you use your voice. Basically, you record yourself and pretend that you’re giving a seminar to a live audience. Next, [...]
Saturday, December 6th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you ever come up with a blog post idea when the farthest thing from your mind at the moment was blogging?
If you haven’t started blogging, you’ll find that once you start, you’ll get ideas when you least expect them.
You could be in a restaurant hanging out with friends when you randomly think [...]