Sometimes being a blogger is no fun.
I don’t mean that from a, “Oh, woe is me, I have to blog” point of view. Nor do I mean it from a, “Why hasn’t my blog been turned into a book yet?” viewpoint.
Besides, how much of a letdown would a book that’s made up of recycled blog [...]
Tag Archive: blogging
The Indecision of Being a Blogger
The Five Unwritten Rules of Guest Posting on Blogs
If you’re a blogger, you may have been asked to write a guest post by another blogger.
Or, you might have offered a guest post yourself to a blogger you admire.
Either way, writing a guest post opens you up to a whole new audience and can increase your own readership into the bargain.
Blog readers that may [...]
Posterous Grows Up as a Blogging Platform
I’ve loved the idea of Posterous from the start.
As a quick-start blogging platform, Posterous offers a pretty robust platform to build your blogging expertise from.
One of the biggest things that puts many folks off from starting a blog is often the time commitment needed. Yet with the ability to post via email, Posterous allowed anyone to [...]
Where You Fit In
What’s your goal? What’s your aim when it comes to social media? Or defining who you are? Or building your brand (personal or otherwise)?
Do you have targets? Do you have a measurement point of where you are now (or where you were at the start of your journey) to where you want to be in [...]
Quick Question on Posterous
Hi guys. Since you helped me immensely when I asked your views on a blog redesign (which will be unveiled soon thanks to Lisa Kalandjian of SceneStealer), I’d like to ask your views again, if that’s okay?
Currently I have an account at Posterous, which I use for short and punchy thoughts. They’re mainly ideas and [...]
17 WordPress Plug-Ins To Help Improve Your Blog Experience
One of the best features of using a self-hosted WordPress blog are the plug-ins that are available.
Because WordPress is an open source community, anyone can develop themes and tools for it.
Plug-ins are community-built applications that add extra features to any WordPress blog, from back-end resources to enhancing the reader experience.
Lately I’ve been asked about some [...]
Why I Love Bloggers with Balls
There’s a great post over at Blog for Profit today called Blog Comments Are Not Roadkill, about blog comments and some of the discussions around them.
Written by Grant Griffiths, it’s a great counter to the numerous posts on why blogs don’t need comments.
The reason I love this post is because, reading it, it’s clear Grant [...]
Six Steps to Running a Successful Blogger Outreach by Monica O’Brien
But… but… blogger outreach doesn’t work anymore, right?
Actually, like most things in life, it depends on how you do it. The landscape for social media and blogging is constantly changing, and most bloggers with any sort of clout have received a mass email or press release that was completely off topic.
It doesn’t have to be that way though. Here’s the six step process I use for blogger outreach, that gives me astronomically higher success than most outreaches that PR firms will run for you. You can get great blogger outreach results (I’ll share mine at the end) in 3 months or less using these steps:
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