Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

10 Ways to Pimp Your Blog

A couple months ago, I wrote a newbie’s guide to blogging to help you get started with blogging. If you’ve been blogging for a little while now, you might be looking at how you can take the next step. To that end, this post offers 10 ways to “pimp” your blog, both in the sense of “tricking out” your blog to make it more attractive and more useful… » Continue

April 23 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, community, marketing, promotion | 30 comments»

The Newbie Guide to Blogging

We live in a blogging world. Whether you’re a business startup, an established business, a freelancer, an intern, a musician, or anyone else, blogging can help you:

Make your name or brand visible
Connect with others in your business or interest
Reach out to the public about issues you’re passionate about
Express yourself
Update clients or an audience about projects you’re working on
Share your knowledge
Learn to write better
Share

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February 25 2008 | By Dustin | Tagged: blog, blogging, Communication, software, tool, web-app | 45 comments»

How To Use Your Blog To Make 2008 Your Best Year Ever!

Introspection, and self-actualization are two thought processes that are very unique to the human species. You may be surprised to learn that one of the best ways to discover your potential is to somehow keep track of your progress as well as your thoughts in various instances of life.
The reason that blogging happens to be the perfect medium for recording such ideas is that it’s much more than… » Continue

January 11 2008 | By Alex | Tagged: blogging, creativity, writing | 31 comments»

9 Ways to Get More Out of Windows Live Writer

Chances are, if you’re a blogger, you’ve heard about Microsoft’s free blogging tool, Windows Live Writer (WLW). In case you haven’t heard about it, WLW is an offline WYSIWIG (What You See Is What You Get) blogging tool that integrates very nicely with most blogging platforms, allowing you to create and edit blog posts from your desktop. Although it is usually great fun to mock Microsoft’s efforts… » Continue

December 3 2007 | By Dustin | Tagged: blogging, software, tool, windows_live_writer, writing | 27 comments»

Getting Attention by doing a Good thing

In our era where there’s a million new things on the web everyday competing for attention, how do you get attention? Do Good.

Take for instance Collis Ta’eed, an Australian freelance web designer, who like just about every other web designer started one of those Web 2.0 sites. Nice, but nothing special, just another blip on the swiftly flowing information river. He decides to do something Good.

He creates out of nothing… » Continue

October 15 2007 | By Bob | Tagged: attention, blogging, good | 3 comments»

Your Blog Is Your Resume

When you meet someone, like a client or peer, do you immediately Google them? I don’t exactly do that, but when I was responding to internet ads for sharehousing I found myself submitting people’s emails into Myspace’s people search.

It’s amazing what you can find out about a person through these things, and you should be weary of that, because employers do the same thing.

Your blog is serious business.
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July 9 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, resume | 22 comments»

17 Firefox Extensions That Make Blogging Easy

The great thing about the Firefox browser is when you have a problem, there is usually a solution in the form of an extension. As a blog writer, I’ve been using a few that smooth out the experience and get rid of a few annoyances.

Here are a few suggestions.

Collecting

Google Notebook - Highlight the content you want to save, Note it with this extension. You can organize different… » Continue

June 1 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, extensions, firefox, writer | 115 comments»

10+ Powerful Sales Concepts For Blogging Success

Selling Subscriptions to Your Blog

If you’re giving away subscriptions for free, why is it so hard to get subscribers? Well, because there is a cost to subscribing, and the cost is in the form of people’s most valuable currency, time. If you want more RSS subscribers to your blog, then you will need to sell those subscriptions. How do you do that? Simple. You use the same sales… » Continue

May 30 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blogging, branding, feed, rss, sales, subscription | 10 comments»

What Makes A Good Blog Post

We’ve mentioned quite a few ideas on how to write a good blog post and maintain a readable blog. It’s not the most apparent information to new bloggers, particularly when it comes to writing styles.

Generally you can lead off the blogs you read and take inspiration from, but if you are looking for some idea to what works when writing blog posts, this list is a good start.

1. Your

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May 30 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, writing | 2 comments»

Top Wordpress Plugins for the Smart Blogger

If you’re a blogger, then you probably know about the power of the Wordpress platform. Straight out of the box, Wordpress is one of the best solutions for blogging. It has a number of SEO benefits built straight into the software. However, the smart blogger knows how to optimize Wordpress for even further performance using plugins. Here is a list of plugins that the A-list bloggers are using.

Akismet

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May 25 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: blogging, plugin, software, wordpress | 76 comments»

101 Blogging Resources

Ah, another 101 list. You’ll remember our 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger and 101 Essential Freelance Resources from FreelanceSwitch.

This one is a well organized list of resources to get your blog running hot.

Although having 101 essential items of anything is a bit overkill, this is more a comprehensive list of options for hosting, managing and promoting your blog.

101 Essential Blogging Resources - [Blogtrepeneur]… » Continue

May 25 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blog, blogging | 2 comments»

How To Prevent Running Out Of Blogging Steam

Something that almost inevitably happens to bloggers starting out their own niche site, is they run out of stuff to say. Generally, as a new blogger, you can shoot for around 3-4 months of solid content until the ideas begin escaping you.

This could possibly be caused by the lack of one or more of these:

1. Inspiration

2. Motivation

3. Confidence

Inspiration

At some stage you will become uninspired. Thankfully, this really is the… » Continue

May 24 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: blogging, blogs, freelance, writer, writing | 30 comments»

Branding Your Blog for Success

Why Brand Your Blog?

Do you get frustrated when visitors to your site don’t convert into subscribers? For many bloggers, not all, success equals an engaged and high volume readership, and/or making money from their blog. If you fall into either of those categories then you can benefit from improving the brand of your blog. This post will show you how.

Gaining a High Volume Readership

What makes a reader want to… » Continue

May 23 2007 | By K. | Tagged: blogging, branding | 47 comments»

101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger

I have noticed that the most successful bloggers online have all taken similar steps in becoming great bloggers. After lots
of research and study, I can also tell you that blogging is much more complex than it seems to be on the surface. However, with a bit of effort, I believe anyone can become a successful blogger.

Here are 101 steps to becoming a better blogger…

1. First, I’m going to assume… » Continue

May 11 2007 | By Kim | Tagged: blogging, wordpress, writing | 204 comments»