
Blogging for Startups: 10 Essential Tips to Make it Work
This guest post is by Gregory Ciotti of Help Scout. Getting the word out about your startup is tough. Blogs serve as a great way to increase organic traffic and establish the all-important relationship of “know, like, trust” through the provision of free content. In addition, few other marketing channels ...more
Business Blogging

5 Lessons I Learned About Blogging in Queensland #QLDBLOG
This guest post is by Rebecca Cooper of simpleasthatblog.com. It’s hard for me to believe that just three short months ago I was in sunny Queensland enjoying the sites and attractions across the world from my homeland of Canada. Being chosen as one of the ten bloggers to go on this ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Why I Switched Blog Hosting Companies (and Who I’m With Now)
One of the most common questions I’m asked about how I run my blogs is, “What web host do you use and recommend?” Over the past ten years I’ve used around eight different hosting services, ranging from the very early days of relying upon free host Blogger, through to my ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

How a Collaborative Critique Changed My Brand … and My Future #QLDBLOG
This guest post is by Kara Williams of The Vacation Gals. When I found out I’d been chosen as one of the ten Queensland Blogger Correspondents, I was as excited to scuba dive in the Great Barrier Reef as I was to get some hands-on blogger training from the ProBlogger ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Why Every Writer Needs an Online Community
This guest post is by Nicolas Gremion of Foboko.com. As a kid, finding writing inspiration and confidence was easy. From picking out the right green pen to recounting your puppy’s every move, it was simple to delve into your own life to create work that was fascinating (if not to ...more
Build Community

How Letting Go of Expectations Improved My Blog #QLDBLOG
This guest post is by Jess Van Den of Epheriell Designs. One of the great joys and terrors of blogging is that a blog is never finished. This is an exciting and inspiring reality. It is also fraught with second-guessing syndrome. Should I put this widget here? Should I change ...more
Blogging for Dollars

A Surefire Way to Suffocate Your Blog (And Your Passion)
This guest post is by David Masters of Social Caffeine. I’m a stats addict. Whether it’s my Twitter feed, an email newsletter, my latest blog post, or my overall blog subscriber numbers, I’m constantly checking the stats. I’m obsessed. Comments, retweets, Likes, clickthroughs, I check them all. Of course it’s important to ...more
Blogging Tools and Services

11 Heads Are Better Than One #QLDBLOG
This guest post is by Jodi Friedman of MCP Actions. When it comes to the world of blogging, multiple people working together almost always achieves better results than just one. So you can imagine the energy that happened when ten lucky, talented bloggers from around the world were selected by ...more
Be Productive

New Series: Where Can Blogger Collaboration Lead? #QLDBLOG
We’ve been talking a lot about the value of blogger collaboration recently. Most recently we looked at how it can help you to boost traffic to your blog over the longer term. But I mentioned also that the benefits of networking and collaboration can be subtle and difficult to “measure.” ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips