“I’m at a point in my blogging career where I just don’t know what I’m doing wrong.”
Every blogger reaches a point in time where they find themselves struggling, it’s normal. However, the challenging part of that struggle is finding out what exactly are you doing wrong and how can you correct it. I’ve watched as thousands of bloggers throw away their blogging career, just because they were unable to answer this kind of question. After being in the blogging industry for about 19 months, I’ve...
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
13 Tips for Beginning Bloggers (Which I Learned the Hard Way)
This article is by Gretchen Rubin of The Happiness Project.
I started The Happiness Project blog as a way to test the argument that novelty and challenge bring happiness (turns out they do!), but I knew nothing about blogging when I began.
Here are some strategies that I learned the hard way, through experience. As Benjamin Franklin once remarked, “Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.”
Start simple. Add bells and whistles over time. Many people get paralyzed at the...
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Your Readers Buy Products! Do You Offer Them?
Recently I gave a presentation on monetizing blogs. I talked about how developing your own products to sell to readers can be an effective way to build a blogging income.
During a question-and-answer segment of the presentation, one blogger stood up and said:
“My readers don’t want to buy products! How else can I make money?”
It was a question that I’ve heard many bloggers ask over the last year—and one I used to ask myself.
I once was afraid...
Monday, November 15, 2010
Your Blogging Questions Answered
I get emails all the time asking about what the best ways are to make money with blogging, how to get a blog noticed, what the best niches are to blog about, and so on… I usually reply to the emails, but a lot of times they are the same questions. I’m working on a new project for blogging and would like to compile a list of your top blogging questions. Not only will I be answering your individual questions, but this page will also act a resource...
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Seven Tips to Start Your Travel Blogging Journey
This guest post is written by Matthew Kepnes of Nomadic Matt’s Travel Site
So you want to be a travel writer? So do a lot of people. In fact, I can’t think of one person who wouldn’t love to get paid to travel. To try, lots of people start travel blogs. Some just do it for fun; others do it seriously. Some would like to get paid but can’t be bothered to really put in the time, so the few hundred they make off advertising is enough for them.
In 2008, when I started my travel blog, I could count...
Some More Helpful Hints To Stay On Top Of Things
Anyone who writes web copy knows how difficult it can be to stay on top of things and juggle all the different requirements at once. Working on the Internet is great because you always have lots of work to do but to be efficient you need to have a few techniques under your belt that will help you manage your time accordingly.
One of the first things I learned is not everything is about technology. To each his own of course but I don’t use anything...
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Better Business Bureau Gone Bad
The other night I was flipping through the channels and stopped on a special report about the Better Business Bureau and it was really interesting! As you know, millions of people around the world are turning to the Better Business Bureau for accurate information and customer reviews from real life people and customers like you and me. However, it looks like there is more to the BBB than most of us might be aware of.
Without going into too much...
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