Georgina Laidlaw

Given all the tasks that can crop up on a blogger’s to do list, it’s no surprise that many of us struggle with task planning and control. Even the big-name bloggers we interviewed for Blog Wise grappled with these issues. Having realized the negative impacts of stress on her productivity, ...more

Every blogger has different motivations, but the interviews we completed as we developed Blog Wise showed how important it is to know what your motivations actually are. The bloggers we spoke to listed a range of motivations. The first was community and audience. Darren told us he’s motivated when he ...more

Over the coming days, we’ll be presenting a series of pro blogging productivity tips that we’ve compiled using the advice of nine A-list bloggers we interviewed for Blog Wise, our new ebook on blogging productively. Today, let’s consider the question, “do you have a productivity problem?” In the blogosphere, it’s ...more

This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. Our blog is less than a year old. We started Firepole Marketing less than a year ago, and we’ve done pretty well with it over that time. A lot of people know who we are, and what we do. I’ve ...more

It’s a paradox. The pundits encourage bloggers to find a niche, think differently, and say something unique and valuable. Then they give us standard formulae for producing content, as if your unique voice, approach, readership, and topic will be neatly addressed by a preselection of three or four formats. The ...more

With the launch this week of Seth Godin’s latest book, We Are All Weird, we wanted to share this interview we recently conducted with Seth on productivity and blogging. Seth’s among the world’s most prolific bloggers, but he’s also a profuse book author and serial entrepreneur. How does he fit ...more

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 12. Create a “Best Seller” list based on Amazon Affiliate reports If you promote products on the Amazon Affiliate program, why not dig into the reports, look at what your readers are ...more

Bloggers are always happy to link to a resource we think is good, or a product or service with which we’re affiliated. But there are other kinds of external links that too few bloggers use: links to sources of information we’ve found links to creators of content we’re citing links ...more

Continuing our discussion of things you should be doing right now to improve your blog, today’s tip is: 10. Create a Hire Me page This won’t relate to all bloggers but if you have a skill or service that you can offer your readers, don’t just assume that they’ll come ...more