CategoryMiscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Improve Your Blog – Learn to Take Criticism Well
This comment from Jannie Funster caught my attention earlier in the week on my ‘best and worst’ post: There are many attributes that go into becoming a successful blogger but this one is key – taking criticism well. There’s nothing more disheartening than getting a comment telling you that you’ve ...more
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How to Build Credibility
How do you rate when it comes to credibility? But more importantly, how do you go about getting credibility if you don’t have any or not much of it? Important question for bloggers – Andrew Rondeau from We Build Your Blog shares some tips on building credibility as a blogger. ...more
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51 Minutes of Video Streaming Q&A on Blogging
Over the last few days I’ve been running a number of impromptu video streaming sessions on ustream (on my ProBlogger channel). The sessions have largely been Question and Answer times with a lot of the questions being the kind of questions I get asked a lot – so today I ...more
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Win One of 20 Gold Passes to Affiliate Summit East
It’s time for another @ProBloggerDeals giveaway – this time we’re giving away 20 Gold Passes to the Affiliate Summit East 2009 – they’re each worth $399. This conference is one that I’ve been wanting to attend for a while now (maybe next year) but while I can’t get to this ...more
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How to Build a Successful Blog
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4 Hour Workweek gave this presentation at WordCamp recently. His title – How to Build a High Traffic Blog without Killing Yourself. Tim’s used his blog very successfully to promote his book and has a lot of wisdom to share – we spent some time ...more
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Win an Omni Bean Bag Worth $149 in the Next 48 Hours at @ProBloggerDeals
Update: Congratulations to @GemmaWent who has won this competition. Thanks to SumoLounge again for sponsoring this – check out their bean bag chairs here. Today’s ProBlogger Deal is simply – follow @ProBloggerDeals on Twitter and you’ll automatically go into the running to win the ultimate blogger’s chair – the Omni ...more
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How to Manage a School/Blog Balance
This post was written by Aditya Mahesh, founder of AMBeat.com, a complete resource for entrepreneurs complete with advice articles, start-up profiles, interviews, news analysis, and more. Common wisdom suggests that academics are always chief in importance. Students, at least those here in the United States, are told time and time ...more
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Better Questions Than “Do I Need a Mentor?” and “How do I get one?”
A Guest post by Josh Hanagarne – World’s Strongest Librarian In my Problogger post about how to land big interviews when your blog is small, I mentioned that I had a mentor. A lot of commenters asked me about that process and if I could write more about it. Send ...more
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Aweber Introduces More Sophisticated Timing Options to Autoresponder Messages
One of the tools that has become central in my own blogging is Aweber. I won’t rehash all of the reasons that I use Aweber but essentially it’s a tool that enables you to allow readers of your blog subscribe to it via email. I use it mainly as a ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips