22nd of December 2022 Georgina Laidlaw 0 Comments

Avoid Blogger Burnout: 5 Tips to Save Your Sanity

For the beginner, the blog learning curve can be steep. As well as all the technical and blog visibility issues, there are questions about focus, content types and research, and of course reaching readers. You’re plugging away, day after day, and getting little in the way of recognisable success. How ...more
Be Productive
15th of December 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Looking to 2023: A Commitment to Blogging Smarter … With a Little Help

Feeling a little run down? At this time of year, many of us are. It’s been a big 12 months, and I think most bloggers are looking forward to some down time over the coming weeks. If you’re like me, you might be thinking of using this time not just ...more
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8th of December 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Get Off the Plateau: Growth Tips for Mature Blogs

Do you feel like your blog has reached a plateau? Maybe your readership has stalled, subscriptions seem to be maintaining momentum but not growing, and you’re having trouble squeezing more value out of your already-loyal customer base… What should you do? There are a number of ways to kick yourself ...more
Blogging for Dollars
6th of December 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in Blogging

One of the most common questions I’ve had over the last six months is ‘Have you tested any Artificial Intelligence Tools for creating content?’ Until this week my answer was “not lately”. I have been using AI for image generation and posting my results on an Instagram account (and I ...more
General
1st of December 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Write a Series for Your Blog (and Why You’ll Want To)

Have you ever written a series of posts for your blog – a set of posts that are deliberately linked together? If you haven’t, I hope I can convince you to give it a try. Some bloggers feel writing a series of posts is more daunting than writing individual posts. But ...more
Creating Content
24th of November 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Prepare Your Blog For the Festive Season: a Step-by-step Guide

Over the past week or so, we ran a short series of interviews with bloggers of different types, to get a feel for how they’re preparing for the festive season. We spoke to the owners of: a product-sales blog a blogger-consultant-speaker a digital publisher a not-for-profit blog. If that series ...more
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17th of November 2022 Georgina Laidlaw 0 Comments

Blogging the Festive Season: The Blogger-Consultant-Speaker [Case Study]

Tara Gentile (now McMullin) is a blogger and business strategist whose online presence underpins her thriving consulting business at explorewhatworks.com. As part of our Blogging the Festive Season series, we asked her how the festive season affects her business and blog. What does preparing for the festive season mean for ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
10th of November 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

What I Learned Starting My Newest Blog

Over the past 7 months, I’ve been doing a weekly challenge on a new blog called ‘Find Your Spark’. My goal with it is to write a new ‘prompt’ blog post every week for 52 weeks on the topic of helping people ‘find their spark’ (and to help me find ...more
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Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season
10th of November 2022 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season?

There are only 45 days until Christmas! It’s that time of year: the silly season is almost upon us: there’s only 15 days until Black Friday and 18 days until Cyber Monday. If you start preparing your blog for Christmas in December you’re probably too late. The Christmas rush starts ...more
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