CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips

Over the last week I’ve had a couple of record days of getting comments on my own blogs. Here on ProBlogger my ‘win a book’ competition drew in 1512 comments while on DPS asking my readers if they had a photoblog and giving opportunity for them to promote it drew ...more

In my recent post on the importance of having your own product to sell I was asked in comments by Todd for advice on choosing the best topic to create an ebook on. Here are a few quick thoughts on some starting points for choosing a topic for an e-book ...more

What does the recent FTC announcement mean for a humble, professional, freebie-accepting, affiliate-pimping, mostly-broke blogger eking out pennies or flats of free soda per post? It means you need to write a blog disclosure policy. What if you have nothing to disclose? (Pity the fool who has nothing to disclose.) ...more

Two weeks ago I re-launched the ProBlogger weekly newsletter. The first email I sent out to subscribers was a story of how I’ve been changing my approach to blogging over the last year. The reaction to the email was huge – literally hundreds of readers responded with emails telling their ...more

Recently while on a beach vacation my family was out on the street having ice-cream when we came across two street performers/buskers. The first one was set up 15 meters to one side of the ice-cream shop we were visiting. He had a guitar and had his guitar case open ...more

This guest post was written by Rob Sutton from Ramped Reviews. Image by kharied. This comes to be a surprise to many, but I hate writing. Every paper in grade school through college was a futile effort in an attempt to pull out my own teeth. I could not stand ...more

A Guest Post by Nathan Hangen of Making it Social. As much as many of us want to get our blogs up and running and create an overnight success story, the truth is that having desire alone just isn’t enough. For starters, guys like Darren make it look extremely easy ...more

A Guest Post by Kelly Diels. Image by Cayusa Part 1. Blogging, Before I Got the Bright Idea to Relaunch and Rebrand: What I Did Right. Maybe. Here’s my curse: I’m lucky. Things always seem to work out for me and even when they go wrong, they’re never actually as ...more

Over the last 11 days I’ve been on a massive learning curve. This post is a number of the scattered lessons I’ve been learning – mainly from the launch of my Portraits E-book over at Digital Photography School. This builds upon the post – The Insiders View of How I ...more