A Compact Disc of Blogs
For the longest time I refused to write and publish a high volume of guest posts. I resisted doing this for any number of reasons. But the reasons did not matter; the resistance did. Any time you strongly resist some piece of blogging advice or following some blogging path, resisting the advice or path tells …
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Smash it. Tap the publish button. Bloggers fear publishing blog posts for a litany of reasons. You fear nothing seems to be quite perfect; wait on the blogging sidelines to edit the post for the 10th time. Re-read the post again. Be with the errors. Make the post better. Make the post more acceptable. Make …
You have likely heard the saying: “If you build it, they will come.” The basic analogy is if you build something helpful, useful or beneficial, people will arrive, visit and prosper you. Think of stores, businesses and other various buildings. But people often forget to include one key element in the building process when it …
Bloggers tend to make mountains out of tiny little ridges in the ground. Do you focus on blogging small potatoes? Do you imagine huge problems within these tiny, seemingly non-issue events that cripple you only because your ego creates the problem? Imagine yourself attempting to pick a blogging niche. After 2 weeks of research, analysis …
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Do you want more blogging fights? Hold on to combative bloggers. Do you want more peace in your blogging life? Let go combative bloggers. I do not mean letting go bloggers who only fight you, per se. Of course; let these bloggers go. I mean bloggers in your friend network who rarely if ever fight …
As a rule, I never blame anyone or anything or any entity for my blogging problems. Blaming people or things for my blogging problems enslaves me to those people or things. Imagine blaming Google for your traffic problems. Google changed their algorithm. After changing their algorithm, your blog traffic dropped big time. Why blame Google? …
I learned a key skill over 12 years of being a pro blogger: make blogging friends. Blogging friends make your life easier and easier. Blogging buddies promote you around the clock, endorse you, buy your stuff, hire you and expand your blogging reach. On the flip side, not making blogging friends guarantees every person you …
Guest blogging for a long time across multiple blogs introduced me to the concept of change. Life is change. Change is life. We know this but notice this truth often if we genuinely dive into life. Over the past 3 days, 3 blogs where I guest post went offline. The reasons matter not because every …
For the longest time, I believed that you needed to engage in social media marketing or you could not drive blog traffic. I adopted that blogging belief based on the belief systems of bloggers who taught this idea. Surrounding myself with social media focused bloggers allowed the belief to etch itself deeper into my consciousness. …
Do you find time to blog, as if you lost the time? Or do you make time to blog? Everything depends on your decision to use time. Or all depends on what you value. People make time for activities people value. Do you value fun, freedom and fulfillment? Yes? Then you will do things promoting …