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What Defines Blogging Success For You?
This is a guest contribution from blogger Carly Findlay. One day, during a ProBlogger Twitter Chat, I got into a debate with a blogger who placed all their worth on statistics. Small page views meant they did not feel successful. I tried to tell them that success is more than just ...more
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Theme Week: How To Find New Readers and Create Community on Your Blog
If you’ve been around this year, you will have seen that we are running a themed week each month, focusing on a specific blogging topic. It is our aim that you will get a great deal of useful tips and info that will arm you with all the things you’ll ...more
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6 Tips for Hosting an Interview Series on Your Blog
This is a guest contribution from Kerry Jones of CopyPress Community. Interviews have become popular features on many blogs, and for good reason. In addition to being fresh content, interviews can help you build relationships with other experts in your niche, provide your audience with different perspectives, and encourage influencers ...more
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Weigh In: Are Personal Blogs and Business Blogs Really That Different?
This is a guest contribution from Sabina Stoiciu. Do you remember how it was back in the 90s, when most of us didn’t have a clue about blogs and blogging? Today we can hardly imagine a world without them. And if the first blogs from mid-90s had a personal character ...more
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In a Blog Slump? Here’s What to Do
“Do you ever want to chuck blogging in sometimes?” came the question at the end of an email recently. “Yep”, I answered. “At least twice, pretty seriously.” It’s a situation I think many of us find ourselves in at some point in our blogging journey: we’re not quite sure, but ...more
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5 Ways to Nail Social Media Branding
This is a guest contribution from Miranda Burford of Swiftly. Social media marketing is one of the best ways to attract visitors to your blog. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube are among the hottest components in the modern marketer’s toolkit. But how do you make sure the branding you’ve built on ...more
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How to Take a10-Day Vacation, a 5-Day Business Trip, Get Food Poisoning, and Still Be Able to Write 42 Posts In a Month
This is a guest contribution by Karol K of newInternetOrder.com Just to set things straight… I’m not talking about writing 42 300-word posts. In September last year, I did write 42 web articles in total. Some of them were 2,800 words long. Some just 500. On the average, each article was about ...more
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Want to Market Better? Think Like a Consumer
This is a guest contribution from Moazzam Kamran. Consumer centricity is a hot topic in marketing circles. Organizations across the globe are trying to “get in touch” with the consumer through multiple methodologies. We employ consumer audits, focus groups, in-house visits, in-depth interviews, and various other techniques to try and understand the ...more
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Kick-Start Your Blog With These Engaging Content Suggestions
This is a guest contribution from Jonathan Long of Market Domination Media. There is not a specific content strategy that is set in stone for bloggers to follow. Every single blog has a specific target audience, requiring content that engages that blog’s particular audience. What works well for “Blog A” ...more
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