CategoryStart a Blog
How to Overcome the “I Wish” Mentality and Start a Blog
This guest post is by Adarsh Thampy of Conversionchamp. I wish I started my blog a long time back when there was a lot less competition. I wish I was able to write great content from the start. I wish I had the money to purchase hosting and set up ...more
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4 Essentials to Consider Before Starting Your Next Blog
This guest post is by Nivin of SecretMarketingPlaybook.com. So, you’ve decided to start a blog? By now I’m sure you would’ve noticed that every man, woman, and their dogs seems to have their very own blog.That leaves you with the unenviable task of answering the ultimate question for any blogger: ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
7 Lessons I Learned by Starting Over with Blogging
This guest post is by Jeff Goins of Goins, Writer Six months ago, I was frustrated with my blog. I felt stuck and stymied. I had written on it for nearly five years and built a small, but steady, stream of traffic. But there was just one problem: it wasn’t ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Trouble Choosing a Niche? Start a Personal Blog
“I’m having trouble deciding what topic to blog about.” This was a statement I heard three times at the ProBlogger meet up in Brisbane a couple of weeks ago and is a problem that many PreBloggers face. I’ve written numerous times about how to choose a niche or topic to ...more
Featured Posts
8 Blogging Tips for Beginners: Best of ProBlogger
Todays post in the Best of ProBlogger 2009 series is all about the newer blogger and is a collection of some of our more popular posts this year that were aimed at the beginner blogger. Starting Your First Blog – 29 Tips, Tutorials and Resources for New Bloggers 9 First ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How To Stop Procrastinating and Start Your Blog
A Guest Post by Jennifer Blanchard of Procrastinating Writers I read this blog daily. But it wasn’t until last week when I noticed the results of Darren’s poll on “How long have you been blogging?” that I decided it was time to submit a guest post. According to that poll, ...more
Other Income Streams
ProBlogging – 10 Things I Wish I Knew when I Started
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
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
Why Did You Start Blogging?
In the last post on ProBlogger Kevin talked about starting a blog based upon one of your hobbies as a great way to start blogging. As I mentioned in the introduction to that post – Kevin had really described much of my own motivations for starting my photography blog (and ...more
Reader Questions
Starting A Successful Blog Is Like Planning An Invasion
This post was written by Alan Skorkin. Alan shares his thoughts about software development, people and teamwork on his blog skorks.com. Every blogger wants to be successful, it is only natural. We often start out blogging about something that is our passion and we want everyone else to be just ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips