CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

This guest post is by Adam Best of FanSided. I spent the previous decade figuring out how to “make it” online as a writer. Led Zeppelin’s “Ten Years Gone” comes to mind. Eventually, with the help of my brother, I made a bit of a splash on a Kansas City ...more

Here’s a little exercise that I do periodically to help me keep my blog on track. It’s based upon a typical life coaching-type exercise where you’re asked to visualize your own funeral and write your own eulogy—to think about what you want to be known for after you’re gone. But ...more

This guest post is by Martyn Chamberlin of Two Hour Blogger. It was getting late. The sick old man sighed and set down his brush. Learning back deeply in his chair, he gazed at his painting. No matter how hard he worked, he couldn’t seem to finish it. It was ...more

Earlier in the year I surveyed a small segment of ProBlogger readers on their blogging experiences as a way of keeping in touch with the needs of readers. I asked a variety of questions, but the answers to one particular question stood out to me like a sore thumb, because ...more

This guest post is by Catherine Caine of cashandjoy.com. There are people who can do the old slow-and-steady routine, but I am so not one of them. When it comes to big creative endeavors, I’m a sprinter, not a marathoner: my new, best-ever-work physical product was created, start to finish, ...more

This guest posst is by Kole McRae of Chilled Soda. Four months ago, I had 15 blogs. I had blogs about net neutrality, writing tips, technology news, and more. They we’re all things I was passionate about and loved writing them but one day I deleted them all. All but ...more

This guest post is by Eugene Yiga of eugeneyiga.com. “I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavour.” —Henry David Thoreau It happens every year. We wake up on January 1, and decide that this is the year things ...more

This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. On March 8, 2011, Guy Kawasaki released Enchantment, his latest book. There was media attention befitting his star status. There were reviews on periodicals like Forbes, and major blogs like Startup Nation and Brazen Careerist. Oh, and an exclusive interview ...more

This guest post is by John Burnside of moneyin15minutes.co.uk. When people arrive at your blog, they’ve all come from somewhere on the World Wide Web. They could have found you on a search engine, they could have known about your site already, or they could have come from any one ...more