A Compact Disc of Blogs
Bloggers tend to set unrealistic expectations. Blogging feels like an escape from a boring, dead end job. Blogging feels like a way out. Blogging seems to be the bridge from depression to happiness. Everything seems bright. The future forces you to wear shades; blinding potential waits around the cyber corner. But blogging douses your dreams. …
I woke up today with access to a few blogs for guest blogging. How does that sound? But I have access because I made blogging buddies. I made blogging buddies because I spent time helping bloggers. I did not ask for links in return. I asked for nothing in return. I helped bloggers. Bloggers bonded …
I scanned my email a few moments ago. A handful of people pitched me business opportunities. A few of the folks followed up once to see if I had read the prior email. I rarely read email. I set up my blog to be a passive income generator. I care less and less about emails …
Create and connect. Create and connect. Create and connect. Everything in blogging is creating helpful content and building strong connections with readers and/or successful bloggers in your niche. Blogging is not terribly difficult to understand. Create helpful content. Build strong connections with people who enjoy your blog and with fellow bloggers in your niche. Of …
Some bloggers feel awkward monetizing their blogs. Put it off until tomorrow. Put it off until next year. Put it off….forever. Resistance to monetizing your blog – if you intend to eventually go pro – signals one thing: fear. Bloggers fear monetizing their blogs for one or many reasons. Awkwardness suggests resistance to adding blogging …
No worries guys. I was in your boat 12 years ago. In 2008 I was new to blogging. I did not have one blogging connection. How could I? I did not even know what a blog was. I did not know what blogging meant. Someone told me to buy a domain and hosting to starting …
I read a post recently laying out blogging problems. I came across a blogging problem that is not really a blogging problem. But unfortunately, bloggers clinging to deep fears in mind all agree that it is a blogging problem then try to trip over themselves like fools attempting to correct the blogging problem which is …
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Write a gazillion words for practice – and through publishing content – over years. Write quality content. Almost all elements of content making it quality are borne of practicing your writing until your fingers fall off. I have written most days since 2008. I did take days off here and there in the beginning. But …
Bloggers do the bizarre thing of blogging for a THING versus blogging for human beings. Bloggers make this common mistake daily, in the tens of thousands. I know; bloggers ask me about this thing and how to drive traffic through this thing quite often. Private messages and expert round ups and interviews reveal this thing …
I began blogging in 2008. A guy not too helpful told me: blog. That was it. I got my blogging knowledge from someone who told me to blog. He did not go into blogging. He gave me no reasons. He gave me no insight. I knew nothing about blogging. I had no knowledge. I did …