Stacey Roberts
Finding Readers: Dustin outlines the 5 Crucial Elements for Growing Readership
In today’s instalment of the Finding Readers theme week, we delve right into Dustin Stout’s incredibly eye-pleasing site, dustn.tv, and hear how he has built a blog people just can’t help but read and share. When I launched dustn.tv in March 2011, I had no idea what I was doing. ...more
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Finding Readers Week: Corinne Talks Commenting, Engagement, and Are Forums Right For Your Blog?
Welcome to the first post in the Finding Readers series here on ProBlogger.net. Corinne runs the successful blog skinnedcartree.com, and consistently gets genuine engagement from her readers and community across the board. Corinne introduced forums at the beginning of the year and has seen that engagement increase sharply. We are ...more
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Theme Week: How To Find New Readers and Create Community on Your Blog
If you’ve been around this year, you will have seen that we are running a themed week each month, focusing on a specific blogging topic. It is our aim that you will get a great deal of useful tips and info that will arm you with all the things you’ll ...more
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In a Blog Slump? Here’s What to Do
“Do you ever want to chuck blogging in sometimes?” came the question at the end of an email recently. “Yep”, I answered. “At least twice, pretty seriously.” It’s a situation I think many of us find ourselves in at some point in our blogging journey: we’re not quite sure, but ...more
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Canvassing ProBlogger Readers: How Have You Built Your Readership?
As you might be aware, each month this year we are running a themed week – delving in deep the topics that are of the most interest to you. We started with creating content, moved on to resources for newbie bloggers just starting out, and this month we had an ...more
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Creating Products Week: Your Experiences – What Have You Done?
We hope you’ve enjoyed the mega-week we’ve had here on ProBlogger talking about creating products – everything from what reconnaissance you should do prior to choosing a product, all the way through to your product’s launch phases. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here. What we’d like ...more
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The Stephen King Drawer Method for Writing Better Copy
This is a post from ProBlogger.net Managing Editor Stacey Roberts When I was studying journalism, it was pointed out to us very early on that our first drafts of anything were never going to be printed. They just weren’t. They were to be edited by professionals with no emotional ties ...more
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What The Most Unexpected Gold Medal in History Can Teach Us About Successful Blogging
In 2002, Australian speed skater Steven Bradbury was lining up for the 1000m final at the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics. Among his competitors for the gold medal were the some of the best in the world at their sport: multi-medallists and world champions. He, by his own admission, was ...more
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The One Thing You Should Be Doing on Your Blog to Create More Engagement
This is a guest contribution from Karl Staib of Domino Connection. Wouldn’t it be great if you were getting twice as many blog post comments as you do now? If people would ask you more questions and add comments, it would help build your community. They spur conversation that might ...more
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