Guest Blogger
7 Steps to Creating More Effective Reader Surveys
This guest post is by AJ Kumar of Single Grain. The benefits of polling your readers and conducting good customer surveys have already been well-established in the blogging world. Not only does this technique enable you to make better informed marketing decisions, gathering information via reader survey can help you to ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
This Post Will Change the Way You Read Blogs. Guaranteed.
This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com. Let me ask you this: how many RSS subscriptions do you have? 20? 50? 100? 250? I figured that the number you follow would be quite high. I used to follow almost 90 blogs through RSS. However, there is one big pain ...more
Be Productive
What to Do When Your Posts Aren’t as Good as they Seem in Your Mind
This guest post is by Amit Sodha of Unlimited Choice. Have you ever had an idea, a thought, or a burst of inspiration that, while it was still in your mind, sounded amazing? But, when you tried to articulate it on screen or paper, or in speech, it didn’t sound ...more
Writing Content
4 WordPress Alternatives: the What, Where, and Why
This guest post is by Matt Setter of MaltBlue.com. As bloggers, we’re all familiar with WordPress, whether as a self-hosted setup, or via WordPress.com. I think that, if you’re a blogger and you’ve not used it, then you’re likely in an odd minority. If you do a Google search for ...more
Blog Networks
How Panda Changed My Strategy and Brought Success [Case Study]
This is a guest post from Eric at Narrow Bridge Finance. I can’t tell you how many times I have read the phrase “content is king.” According to Google, it has been mentioned 170 times on this site alone. As much as you might think that SEO is king, marketing is queen, ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Six People Who Can Ease the Blogger’s Burden
This guest post is by John Preston of My Family Finances. Have you ever tried to explain to someone how to blog successfully? I have yet to find a satisfactory synopsis of the complicated juggling act that fellow bloggers have trained themselves to perform. I do know that somewhere in ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
7 Powerful Ways to Promote Your Blog Offline
This guest post is by Jennifer Michelle of Jennifer Michelle Communications. Online marketing is a great way to grow your blog—but it’s not the only way. Traditional marketing methods can also be used to promote your blog and develop your readership. Here are seven ideas to get you started. 1. ...more
Blog Promotion
8 Killer Tactics to Grow Your Blog with LinkedIn
This guest post is by Josh Turner of LinkedSelling. Is your blog a business, or do you hope that it someday will be? If you answered yes, then you should consider refocusing some of your social media activities toward the world’s largest social network for business. That’s right, LinkedIn isn’t ...more
Social Media
How to Use Google+ to Update All Major Social Networks
This is a guest post by Alan Cairns of bozboz.co.uk. We tend to use social networks as channels that feed into each other, with certain channels for posting content and others for re-publishing it. Widgets and apps can help pull a Twitter feed to a website, or a blog RSS ...more
Social Media