A Compact Disc of Blogs
I usually delete my spam folder without peering at a single email subject line. I spend 1 second to click the trash button and never look back. But today I spent 3 seconds scanning the subject line of the first email in my spam folder. Someone noted enjoying my latest post but had a suggestion …
Pro Blogging: Working Hard and Long Makes No Difference if You Do the Wrong Things Read More »
“I cannot afford to invest in a domain and hosting.” “I cannot afford to invest in a blogging course.” “I have no money to buy a premium theme.” I have heard each blogging excuse thousands of times over the decade I have been online. Every excuse rooted in being cheap simply results in blogging being …
I will never forget the day. I was in Fiji. Me and my wife had just arrived. Summertime. 2014. I got a message from my old host. I had to remove a few posts or else my blog would not go back online. What? I was faced with an instant decision. Either delete all of …
Is It Time to Cut Your Losses on a Worn Out Blog? Read More »
Blog post ideas sit in reader problems. Listen to reader problems. Access all types of blog post ideas. I recorded a video a while back detailing how to get blog post ideas. Watch it here: Unlimited Blog Post Ideas Listen closely to your readers. Tune in to their needs. Find blog post ideas in their …
Blogging gets easier and easier if you are straight with yourself. Blogging gets harder and harder if you lie to yourself. Everything depends on how you frame yourself, your blog and your honest view of your blogging campaign. Being honest frees you but also stings a little bit. Being honest requires you look at your …
Hmmm….you cannot really make your blog do anything. Blogs are inanimate objects, subject to influence, but you cannot force anything out of your blog. Beginner bloggers and struggling bloggers slam into this force-filled problem, being stricken with fear and hurry and desperation and greed. Bloggers believe forcing themselves to force their blogs to grow actually …
Develop a deep, clear level of confidence in your blogging rates and prices. Or else less than clear people will reflect your lack of confidence to you. Imagine if you feel unclear on your eBook pricing. Doubting the pricing makes sales die off – if sales ever grew to begin with – but more appropriately, …
How Confident Do You Feel About Your Rates and Prices? Read More »
Did you give it your blogging all today? I almost always give it my blogging all, especially in my more human, fallible moments. Sometimes, it feels way too easy to mail it in. I know. I have blogged 10,000 hours over the past 10 years of my life. I have been in the game for …
No. SKILLED BLOGGERS who: invest money in a domain and hosting invest money in courses and eBooks to learn how to blog properly create connect persist trust open multiple streams of income can earn a nice source of extra or full time income. Bloggers earn income. Blogging never did anything for anyone, because blogging is …
Build your day around blogging. Simple solution. Uncomfortable solution. Tough solution. But freeing solution. Being 100% dedicated to blogging forced me to change my habits. I changed some relationships with folks, too, releasing bonds I had long outgrown, to make way for more blogging work and for greater success, happiness and fulfillment in all I …