CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Lorelle has written a great 15 point post on How to Know When to Stop Blogging. Sometimes bloggers feel they ‘have to’ keep a blog running – when the best thing for it is to end it. If Lorelle’s post connects with you – you might also like to read ...more

Warning – Tangent Ahead Today is Australia Day here in Australia (a public holiday). As part of this annual celebration – when we eat a lot of BBQ lamb (BBQ), play backyard cricket and watch the Tennis and Cricket (could the Aussies have demoralized the English any more?) – a ...more

Ahmed has posted some reflections on the recent sale of three blogging related sites (Blog Catalog (sold for $40k), EatonWeb (sold for 10k) and 2RSS (sold for $7k) which all sold for between 24 and 100 times monthly revenues. His conclusions: Blogs are hot (‘Buy it Now’ prices were all ...more

Gina Trapani is putting together a series of posts that needs I’m putting in the ‘special’ and ‘file for future use’ categories. It’s called Turn Your Blog Into a Book and so far she’s written part 1 and part 2 (I’m not sure if there will be more). The first ...more

In your quest for creating excellent content, you may have come across the following dilemma: I would love to create something important for my blog, but how do I, as a “mere” blogger contribute to that conversation at large? If I don’t create something de novo, will it be worth ...more

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been having a conversation with two bloggers about when and how to link to sources of the news that you write. The conversation emerged out of my observation that these two bloggers were posting very similar news stories to ones that I’d been ...more

Presentation Zen posted a new years message that I missed until today (when I saw a link to it form Pimp Your Work) which hit the spot for me today. It was a post on Solitude as being an important ingredient for effective business presenters. Their post included this video: ...more

The blogosphere’s a tough place. And to create a blog that survives and thrives under absolutely Darwinian conditions isn’t easy. Since this business week is coming to a close, I’d like to share a few universal lessons that I’ve learned over the past six months that have allowed me to ...more

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