CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips
Blogging the Festive Season: The Blogger-Consultant-Speaker [Case Study]
Tara Gentile (now McMullin) is a blogger and business strategist whose online presence underpins her thriving consulting business at explorewhatworks.com. As part of our Blogging the Festive Season series, we asked her how the festive season affects her business and blog. What does preparing for the festive season mean for ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
The Ultimate Guide to Leaving Comments On Blogs
If you’ve ever read a post, book or eBook, or listened to a webinar or conference session on the topic of ‘finding readers for your blog’ you’ll have heard the advice: ‘Leave comments on other blogs‘ It was the first piece of advice I remember reading about building readership and ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
10 Ways to Switch Your Brain to Writing Mode When Working From Home
This post is from ProBlogger Team member Stacey Roberts Finding it hard to make time to blog? Me too. In fact, that’s one of the biggest issues people tell me they have when trying to write. Often we’re blogging from home alongside other work and family commitments, and it can ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Are these Mindsets Holding You Back from Achieving Blogging Success?
“What’s the biggest mistake you see aspiring bloggers making?” This is a question I’m asked a fair bit on panels or in interviews, and it’s one that I suspect the people asking the question would like a technical answer to. The reality is that the biggest mistakes I see bloggers ...more
Mindset + Motivation
How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing
Scrupulous readers should have noticed that blogging is not just about writing and getting their opinions, rants and random stuff online. In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. Every opportunity to enhance communication and reach out through various media should not be taken lightly. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
7 Strategies for Growing Community on Your Blog
Recently on ProBlogger we’ve been looking at the topic of building community on a blog. We started by identifying 9 benefits and 3 costs of community on a blog and then looked at 5 stages of building community on a blog. Today I want to dig deeper into some specific ...more
Featured Posts
How To Achieve Your Goals – Hint #1
Friend – ‘Darren, I never seem to reach any of my goals.’ Darren – ‘What are your Goals?’ Friend – ‘…ummm….. ‘ Darren – ‘Do you have any goals?’ Friend – ‘Yes – at the start of the year I worked some out’ Darren – ‘So what are your goals?’ ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Choose a Blog Topic That’s Pre-Programmed for Success
This is a guest contribution from Jason Gracia. As I write these words, dedicated men and women struggle to grow their blogs and they don’t have a clue as to the cause. Could it be effort? Could it be talent? Could it be that just one more course is needed? ...more
General
Tips on Building and Maintaining a Great Relationship with Readers
This is a guest contribution from Dan Goss. When it comes to blogging, nothing is more important than your readership – if you’re publishing the best content in the world with no-one to read it, you quickly get into a Zen-style conundrum. If a tree falls in the forest and no-one ...more
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