Yesterday, I talked about summer blog fever, and how it is destroying blogs…including mine. And I am tired of it. This fever is obnoxious and it is definitely making for some very frustrating days. So, I have worked up 8 ways to combat the fever this summer and get your blog back on the road to health.Create a series post. If you put together a...
When we were in school, from June through August, we had vacation time…time to play, be free and do what we wanted to do. We could refresh our systems and get prepped for another grueling year of school ahead. This did nothing to help prepare us for real life. In the real world, we don’t get summer break (or winter or spring break for that matter)....
What do you know? Why are you actually starting a blog? What voice do you want to have? Who are you actually talking to? How often can you (honestly) blog per week?We’ll go through each of these questions – and how you can determine the answers. (pardon the darkness, it was shot during Wordcamp2011) [youtube id="oPJKnv48fIE"] Can’t see the video? Watch “Before you start blogging” on youtube. Can you answer all 5...
In a blog post earlier this month on Copyblogger, they shared quotes from 60 brilliant minds about how to increase your influence online. They were all good quotes, but only one stopped me in my tracks: “Avoid incestuous blogging. Instead of sticking to one niche, think bigger: what social circles are related to yours?” -@chrisguillebeau For those who got distracted by the word incestuous (some of us...
There are two processes for writing blog posts: If you have a blog calendar…and if you don’t. Here’s the process of writing a blog post if you don’t have a blog calendar:Get into the office, completely excited about getting a blog post written. Pour a cup of coffee, thinking all the while about the brilliant idea that came to you overnight. Start writing it. Get distracted by twitter or...
Yesterday, Julien Smith (co author of Trust Agents) wrote a post titled “How to triple your twitter traffic in 7 days“. The main goal of the post was to explain how he discovered that by writing less content and only writing 10/10 posts his site traffic increased dramatically, and was even higher than normal on days that he didn’t...
The perfect length for a blog post is 340 words. Don’t you wish it was that easy? Unfortunately, the length of a blog post is not that cut and dry – and depending on whom you ask, can vary greatly! Journalists turned bloggers tend to err on the longer side, whereas people who adore twitter and just happen to blog too tend to find their posts...
Many of my blog management posts are written around the struggles that I have had and have overcome in the blogging world – but this post isn’t about me. It is all about you…and your blog struggles you shared with me today on twitter! Earlier today, I asked my followers what their biggest blogging struggles were. Many shared the same frustrations, and these were the 4 most...
I have found that the most difficult part of writing my blog posts is the headlines. I can write content all day long, but when it comes to trying it all together under on neat little title, I tend to fall a little short. So, over the next month, my goal is to really work on improving my headlines (of course, I’d love your thoughts...
