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Do You Know These Time Saving Blogging Tips?
Over the last few days we’ve been tackling the problem of ‘not enough time to blog’ that many bloggers struggle with. I started by sharing 7 tips for busy bloggers on how to find time to blog and then had 14 of my blogging friends share a little about their ...more
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From Spark to Sale in 18 Days
Some of you will know that Darren has just headed off for a well earned 10 day break. While enjoying his holiday, Darren has bravely given me the keys to ProBlogger to share a collection of posts – with of course the one condition that I don’t scare you all away :) ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Group Writing Project: Write a ‘Discussion’ Post
Over the last week here on ProBlogger we’ve been digging deeper into the topic of ‘building community’ on a blog. See the series at: 9 Benefits [and 3 Costs] Of Building Community On Your Blog The 5 Stages of Building a Culture of Community on a Blog [A Case Study] ...more
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Financial Planning for Bloggers
We all strive to have our personal finances in order. Managing our financial resources wisely brings peace, security, and allows us to utilize our financial resources on in ways that are important to us. Proper financial planning requires work and diligence and tends to be more of a continuous process ...more
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Making Money Online – The NEW Standard
A Guest contribution from Nick Thacker from www.LiveHacked.com. I’ve been a leech for most of my life. By “leech,” of course, I mean I’ve basically existed online as the type of person who consumes considerably more than I’ve created. But this year things changed. I was, and still am, a ...more
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What’s Your Reaction to the Retirement of Google Reader?
Yesterday Google announced the retirement of their Google Reader RSS reader product. I’ve tweeted a little about it but thought it might be interesting to see the response of readers to this news. it seems at least some people are concerned (with thousands signing this petition already). For me it ...more
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What Studying Haikus Taught Me about Writing Blog Posts
This guest post is by Steve of Do Something Cool. A form of Japanese poetry, haikus have been around for hundreds of years. Blogging has been around for roughly two decades. On the surface, these two different forms of writing don’t have anything to do with each other. But surprisingly, understanding ...more
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Highlights from ProBlogger Event 2012
Last weekend, over 300 bloggers converged at Etihad stadium in Melbourne to attend the annual ProBlogger event. We had dreamed a lot bigger this year. This was the first year that we held the event over two days. It was the first year we had two different “streams” of content, ...more
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Selling Without Website Broker? You’re Leaving Money on the Table
This guest post is by Jock Purtle of digitalexits.com. So you want to sell your blog? Your site is probably making more than $3,000 per month and you know that it might be worth a decent amount of money. Recent sales like that of the Huffington Post give you confidence ...more
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