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Who’s the boss of your blog? Who calls the shots, makes the hard choices, and keeps things moving in the right direction? If you’re thinking, “me!” you might be falling prey to the kind of philosophy that prevents many bloggers from reaching their full potential. Readers rule What are your ...more

This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. If you’ve been blogging for a while, you’ve probably come across advice to blog every day. Perhaps you feel that you must blog every day—and you’re reluctant to even start your blog because you know you don’t have that much time. Or ...more

We all agree that social media networks offer a number of benefits to bloggers. We can build a following on these sites, make new friends and connections, and share, collaborate, and interact in real time. This is great—and there’s no doubting that sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, YouTube, and ...more

This week, we’ve got a couple of intriguing blog posts coming up that deal with bloggers’ personal stories. Obviously, personal stories tend to do well with blog readers. But look around, and you’ll see that personal stories have become a mainstay of the media more generally. We have reality t.v.—real ...more

 This guest post is by Ayelet Weisz of All Colores. It was finally happening: I was about to embark on the trip of my dreams—and I wanted to write all about it. I decided that a travel blog, shared initially with family and friends, would be a great experiment to see ...more

From the marketers’ point of view, subscriptions are a loyalty mechanism—they’re the first technique we’ve looked at that’s most often used to build repeat traffic from people who have already visited your blog, and like it. If they like it so much, why do they need to be reminded to ...more

Have you tried podcasting on your blog? Not long ago, Carol Tice wrote a couple of posts on the topic for us, covering the benefits of podcasting and how to get your first podcast up and running. I know Carol advises against using a hosted service for your podcasts, but ...more

One of the things I love about Problogger.net is the value of the comments my readers make here. Although the days when I could reply to many of those comments are now, sadly, long gone, I do read comments on the blog, and frequently get ideas and inspiration from them. ...more

This guest post is by Peter Sandeen of Affect Selling. Do you know why most of your blog’s visitors quickly scroll down your home page, read a couple of headlines, and go back to watching cute kitty videos on YouTube? And why those who begin reading a post, only read ...more