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Lessons from Tower Defense on How to Reinvent Your Blog
19th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Lessons from Tower Defense on How to Reinvent Your Blog

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein* Tangent – I’m not really into gaming (online or offline) but I do have one weakness – Tower Defense (warning – following that link could grind your blogging to a halt ...more
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Six Defining Moments of a ProBlogger
17th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Six Defining Moments of a ProBlogger

There are defining moments in everyone’s lives that often get looked back on as times that determined how things eventually played out. My reader question for today is to ask for you stories of defining blogging moments. What are the most important decisions and discoveries that you’ve made as a ...more
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How To Recruit High Quality Guest Bloggers
15th of February 2008 Daniel Scocco 0 Comments

How To Recruit High Quality Guest Bloggers

John asked the following question about finding guest posters in our question box: What is the best way to get a quality guest blogger to post for your site? First things first: why should you care about having guest bloggers on your site to begin with? Well, there are several ...more
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The Curse of the ProBlogger – Time Management and Scaling Yourself Up
14th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Curse of the ProBlogger – Time Management and Scaling Yourself Up

I love my work – but if there’s one thing that I struggle with more than anything else it is that I get to the end of each day and wish there were a few more hours. image by Erik It was a couple of years ago that I first ...more
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Blogging as a Job – The Perceptions of Others – Convincing Those You Love that You Can Be a ProBlogger
13th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogging as a Job – The Perceptions of Others – Convincing Those You Love that You Can Be a ProBlogger

In my recent question box Nick from Put Things Off asked me a number of questions that I thought I’d answer together as a single post as they almost read like a mini-interview – with questions revolving around the legitimacy of blogging as a career, helping others to accept it ...more
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4 Reasons You Should Encourage, Foster and Harness Dissent on Your Blog
13th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

4 Reasons You Should Encourage, Foster and Harness Dissent on Your Blog

Guest Post: Muhammad Saleem is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. Over the past couple of years I have had many dozens of incredibly negative comments on my posts which I have often marked as spam and not posted. After I do ...more
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The Road to ProBlogging is Not Always Obvious; Or, How I Came to Be Editor of a Top 1000 Blog
11th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

The Road to ProBlogging is Not Always Obvious; Or, How I Came to Be Editor of a Top 1000 Blog

The following post is by Peter Clemens from Peter is the founder of Iwillchangeyourlife.com. I still vividly remember being dazzled by the idea of making $1,000 a day from blogging. That was a little over 9 months ago, and the particular article I refer to is Steve Pavlina’s How to ...more
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Blogging Fatigue – 8 Tips to Get Over Your Blogging Blues
5th of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

Blogging Fatigue – 8 Tips to Get Over Your Blogging Blues

This guest post was written by Mark Seall from TalkClimateChange and EcoWorldly. Image by Aaron Jacobs ? Blogging is often more of a lifestyle choice than a hobby or a business model, and that choice often has its cost. Time spent writing content is the easy part – the total ...more
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How to Choose a Domain Name – Brandable Domains vs Keyword Rich Domains
2nd of February 2008 Darren Rowse 0 Comments

How to Choose a Domain Name – Brandable Domains vs Keyword Rich Domains

Here’s a question that I get quite a bit that I thought might make an interesting question for discussion: When choosing domain names do you get a keyword rich or more brandable name? What do I mean by keyword rich vs brandable names? Let me explain further with a segment ...more
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