CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Here’s a quick tip for companies or individuals pitching to bloggers to link to their products, services, events, sites etc: Make it a Win/Win/Win interaction! A Quick Story Yesterday I was pitched to on my photography blog by a company running training events for photographers. They felt that they had ...more

A guest post by Larry Brooks of Storyfix.com Pardon the cryptic title.  Not trying to sound hip or flip.  Just going straight at it. Today’s title is literal.  Rather than the traditional try for a killer hook, what you see above is actually the point. Not recommended as a default ...more

A Guest Post by Jordan Cooper of Not A Pro Blog. As a blogger, what one thing would you consider to be your “holy grail” of success? For a stand-up comedian, this defining moment was an appearance on the Tonight Show. A longstanding tradition of being the platform of so ...more

A Guest Post by James Dunworth. First Image by NDevil Over the years I have spent hours working on tweaks to my websites that have lead to zero or imperceptible improvement in rankings and earnings. On other hand, I have also made changes which took just a few minutes of ...more

A Guest post by Ali Hale – author of The Blogger’s Guide to Effective Writing. March 11th – 16th 2010: I went to South by South West (SXSW) and had an amazing time. I went to panels and parties; I saw friends and personal heroes … and I even got ...more

How would you live your life differently if you had one month to live? It’s a question I was asked recently and while it’s one we’ve all heard before I think it’s something well worth pondering at different times. I also like to apply it to different areas of my ...more

I started my first business in grade 4 at primary school… and it all revolved around Brooke Shields. Sure I’d sold random pieces of craft (finger knitting, match stick creations and wool wound around icy-pole sticks) to the neighbors before that time…. but that was small time in comparison to ...more

Welcome back, my blogtastic friends! As you may have gathered by now: Every week, we use Regator's blog trends to show you what the blogosphere has been writing about during the previous seven days (click any trend to see posts about that story) and I give you a few blogging tips to go along with the trends. Speaking of which, I just finished watching the first, second, and third groups of videos that Darren gathered from readers who had tips to share, and I'm both impressed and inspired.

This post concludes the sharing of blog tips videos from readers (see previous days videos here and here). I have to say – there’s a video in this lot that made me laugh and laugh – I hope you enjoy it too! Thanks again to everyone who participated – if ...more