CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Yesterday we talked about Relational Communication Skills – essential skills for blogging relationships (ironically the picture I used in the post caused some to question whether I had some poor communication skills going on). Today I want to turn my attention to conflict resolution, another essential skill (closely related to ...more

Tangent Time – “To have a successful marriage you only really need two skills – communication skills and conflict resolution skills.” This is the advice was drummed into me as a trainee celebrant learning to do pre-marriage counselling. It is a fairly idealistic sort of statement and I’m sure could ...more

BlogHelper has put together a couple of useful posts on what to do when spring cleaning your blog. Read at total of 10 things to consider doing at Blog Spring Cleaning: 5 Baby Steps and 5 more things to do when spring cleaning your blog.

Yesterday I raised the topic of exclusive blogging (and blogging cliques) – it was a post identifying a problem. Today I want to suggest 9 ways to make your blog more inclusive. 1. Be Aware of the Language You Use – every niche has it’s language that it’s experts know, ...more

Do you know what it feels like to be the only one in a crowd that doesn’t fit in? Perhaps some of your blog’s readers feel this way too…. Tangent Time – Seeing Gomez Earlier this month I went to see Gomez perform at the Hi-Fi bar in Melbourne. I ...more

Brian’s released a new video over at Tubetorial in his 7 Steps to Creating and Selling Niche Information Products series. This one is on working out what to make your product about. I like Brian’s approach because he doesn’t go in for the hype that surrounds a lot of information ...more

Don’t let your domain names expire. Easy to do – especially if you’re changing your email addresses around. PS: I’ve been going with 10 year domain registrations recently to help with this – but also because a patent released by Google last year indicated that they look at length of ...more

Quite a few people have asked me questions about ProBlogger being hacked last week. Questions have ranged from ‘do you know who did it?’ to ‘have you found out how they did it?’ to ‘how can we protect ourselves from being hacked?’ By the way – my blogging buddy Andy ...more

A few readers have emailed me today to ask if I’m going to post about the tragic death of Steve Irwin, Crocodile Hunter. While I’m a proud Australian and have been saddened by his passing, I’d not really seen the need for a post here to mark the occasion as ...more