CategoryCreating Content
168: How to Edit Blog Posts in 7 Easy Steps
Edit Your Blog Posts With Seven Simple Steps A lot is taught about the importance of writing great blog posts, but it is in the editing of your writing that your post can really be made to shine. If left unedited, it can create a very different impression that can ...more
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166: Editorial Strategy – 11 Factors to Consider When Shaping the Content Strategy for Your Blog
Factors to Consider When Shaping Content Strategy for Your Blog In today’s lesson, I want to share 11 factors to consider when thinking about developing your blog’s editorial strategy and thinking about your blog’s editorial style. The success of your blog hinges on many factors but among the most important ...more
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160: Challenge: How to Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog
Challenge: Write an Opinion Post on Your Blog In today’s episode, I’m issuing you with a challenge to create a piece of content that centers around your opinion on a topic relevant to your audience. Adding your opinion to your content is such an important way to make your blog ...more
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155: 5 Tips from Full Time Bloggers
The 5 Top Tips from Full Time Bloggers Today, I want to give you some advice. It’s not advice from me. It’s advice from about 50 full-time bloggers that I surveyed about two years ago. I was testing a survey software, and I sent the survey to some bloggers that ...more
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152: How to Use Embedded Content on Your Blog [Challenge]
Embedded Content Challenge Today, I want to give you a challenge to create a certain type of content. This is in the vein of our blogging groove challenge which we did about six weeks ago. I’ve just returned from the ProBlogger Event, and I am inspired. I received a lot ...more
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149: Series of Blog Posts vs Long Blog Posts – Which is Better?
The Pros and Cons of Long Posts Today, we have a question from Emma Cameron. “Hi Darren, I love your podcast! I found your 7 day intensive blogging series very helpful, and it led me to write a post I might never have gotten around to otherwise. In answering my ...more
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146: How to Write Effective Sales Copy
How Being a Good Listener Can Help You Write Effective Sales Copy Today, I want to talk about writing great sales copy. Whether that would be blog post, sales emails, creating a sales pages, or even selling on social media. A lot has been written about the topic particularly focusing ...more
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145: How Your Obsession With Creating New Content Could be Hurting Your Blog
Is Your Blog Being Hurt by Your Obsession to Create New Content? Today, I want to talk about an obsession that many bloggers have – an obsession with creating NEW content and want to suggest that we all take a little step back from spending quite so much time on ...more
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144: How to Create a Link Post [Challenge]
Challenge: Create a Link Post This is 7th and final challenge in ProBlogger’s 7 Days to Getting Your Blogging Groove Back Challenge that we kicked off back in episode 137. You can listen to this podcast in the player above or here on iTunes (please take a moment to give ...more
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