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Recently while on a beach vacation my family was out on the street having ice-cream when we came across two street performers/buskers. The first one was set up 15 meters to one side of the ice-cream shop we were visiting. He had a guitar and had his guitar case open ...more

Over the last 11 days I’ve been on a massive learning curve. This post is a number of the scattered lessons I’ve been learning – mainly from the launch of my Portraits E-book over at Digital Photography School. This builds upon the post – The Insiders View of How I ...more

Updated: I’ve added a few quick updates on how the launch has gone at the bottom of this post. Over on my main blog – Digital Photography School – we have today launched our first ever ebook – The Essential Guide to Portrait Photography. We’re launching with a 25% discount ...more

Have you ever had a moment in your life where everything changed? You might not have known it at the time - but the moment was defining, it changed the course of some area of your life in a way that turned things upside down. I had one of those ...more

Since I announced ProBlogger.com mid last week the ProBlogger Community Forum has grown to well over 1300 paid members (note the member numbers are reported as higher but also include people who have yet to confirm their membership with a payment). Because it’s a private, walled community it can be ...more

What would happen if the thousands of bloggers who read ProBlogger each day decided to work together to improve their blogs? This is a question that has been on my mind lately – I thought it was time to find out what the answer is. So far 800 1200+ bloggers ...more

One of the techniques that I’ve employed in my blogging over the last 6 months behind the scenes is to create Reader Profiles (or Personas). The technique is simply – open up a word document and begin to describe a type of reader that you’re either attempting to write for ...more

Two days back I explored the myth that all you need to do is write great content on a blog for it to get readers and introduced the idea of ‘seeding’ content rather than ‘forcing’ it upon readers. Today I want to take the ‘seeding’ idea a step further and ...more

One of the common misconceptions that some new bloggers start out with is that in order to find readers for their blog all they’ll have to do is regularly write quality content. “Great content will market itself” – a statement I heard one speaker make at a blogging conference last ...more