CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

I was chatting with two friends last week – one of them is a blogger and the other was considering starting a blog. My blogging friend was dispensing a few words of wisdom on how to start out (the usually kind of beginner blogging tips) when he said something out ...more

Click To Play play_blip_movie_352933(); First impressions matter in the day to day real life relationships that we all have. Like it or not, people are making decisions about who you are in the first few seconds that they meet you. The same is happening when they come to your blog ...more

Sometimes after you’ve been blogging on your blog for a while it’s easy to forget that not all of your readers have been reading your blog since you started. While you’re familiar with every aspect of your blog and how to use it – your more recent loyal readers may ...more

Do you want to be famous? Do you want to be noticed? Do you want people to know who you are? Do you want to have more influence? I did an informal survey of bloggers at a workshop and asked them why they blog. The majority of answers had something ...more

Jay from Dumb Little Man (a blog that’s seen incredible growth of late) has posted an insightful post on How He Blogs. It has all kinds of great glimpses into his blogging and how he does it while still maintaining a full time job (warning – his schedule is a ...more

Your task today in the 31 Days to Building a Better Blog project is to ask your readers how you can improve your blog. At least once a year I like to write a post on my blogs inviting my readership to comment on a number of areas of my ...more

When I started this months 31 Days to Building a Better Blog and decided to invite readers to submit their own blog tips I’m not sure what I was really expecting – but the results have been fantastic. I’ve just spent the last two hours surfing through the latest batch ...more

In my last post on responding to comments on your blog two readers, john – from fat to fat and Lynnae, both post the question of whether a blogger should respond to comments via email or via comments? I’d like to throw this open as a reader question – what ...more

When Joel Comm emailed me a month or two back to tell me about his new project – a reality show called the Next Internet Millionaire – I have to admit that I was a little skeptical. For starters – I’m not a massive fan of the hype of internet ...more