Six Very Official Ways to Improve Your Writing
Looking to improve your blog writing? Today Shannon Paul ( @shannonpaul) from Very Official Blog gives her very official tips on the topic. I love blogs. Before I started blogging seriously, I read a lot of other blogs and was very engaged as a reader. I commented a lot and ...more
Writing Content
84% of People Would Prefer More Blog Readers than Twitter Followers
Over the last 10 days I’ve been running twin polls on two of my blogs – ProBlogger and TwiTip – asking readers whether they’d prefer more Twitter Followers or Blog Readers. The overall results were fairly clear – 84% of those who responded people would prefer more Blog Readers. I ...more
Social Media
31 Days to Build a Better Blog – Sign Up Here
Starting on 1 April (Update: this is now starting on 6th April) I am planning on launching another ‘31 Days to a Better Blog‘ project. I’ve run this twice previously (once in 2005 and once in 2007) so thought that I should continue the biennial nature of it. This year ...more
31 Days to Building a Better Blog
Using ‘Canned Responses’ to Save Time While Helping Readers (and how I’d improve Canned Responses)
The amount of emails hitting my Inbox makes me feel physically ill. I just checked my ‘All Mail’ inbox in Gmail and in the last 30 minutes I’ve had 100 emails…. and it is the weekend as I write this (off peak). On a single day last week I had ...more
Blogging Tools and Services
How to Use Social Media to Land the Job of your Dreams
This interview was conducted by Monica O’Brien (@monicaobrien) from Twenty Set. As the recession looms on, more and more people are turning to social media and blogs to look for jobs. Jamie Varon (@jamievaron) has generated buzz in the Twitter community with her new website called Twitter Should Hire Me, ...more
Social Media
Rise Of The Blogging Service Industry
In this guest post, Neil Matthews from WPDude.com writes about the rise of the blogging service industry, and how bloggers can use their existing skills to enter this lucrative industry. Blogging has moved away from a niche activity to such an extent that it has spawned it’s own service industry. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
4 Pretty Pictures to Illustrate Impact of Email Newsletters on Traffic (and Social Bookmarking)
Today I was reading a post on CopyBlogger by Dean Rieck on the importance of using email to grow a blog and it struck me how many bloggers still don’t fully understand the power of email as a way to grow their blogs. I’m not going to rehash all of ...more
Blog Promotion
How has the Economic Downturn Impacted my Blogging Earnings?
How has the economic downturn impacted your blog earnings? Team Nirvana recently emailed to ask me what impact the recession has had upon my blog earnings – it’s actually a question that I get quite a bit when talking to friends and family – (I guess everyone is asking it ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Should Legal Blogs Be Monetized – If so…. How?
“Should Legal Blogs Ever Be Monetized?” asked by @chrischeatham on Twitter. “Should I try to make money on my blog?” is a question I hear a lot from bloggers of many niches and while ultimately the answer will vary from blogger to blogger depending upon their own circumstances and the ...more
Blogging for Dollars