CategoryWriting Content
How to Create and Use Infographics to Drive Traffic to Your Blog
This is a guest contribution from Luke Guy. Let me start this post by telling you a quick story: I once created this niche site that I thought would do really well. I wanted to flex my SEO skills, and see if I could a new site ranked rather quickly ...more
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8 Ways to Find Trending Topics and Key Words
One of the key success factors in marketing is the ability of a marketer to seize a certain moment – jumping on a trending item that will resonate with their audience, and repackaging it so it’s relevant to the reader. We’re all individuals, and what we like could be totally ...more
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How to Come up with Fresh Ideas to Write About On Your Blog
There comes a time in the life of every blogger when they feel as though there’s nothing left to say – that they’ve said it all, and no new ideas are forthcoming. It can strike when you have been blogging for some years and have spent a lot of time ...more
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Battling Bloggers Block – Where do you get Stuck?
Recently, I had a question from a listener: “Darren do you have any tips for bloggers with bloggers block? I want to take my blog to the next level in 2016 but I’m stuck. Every time I sit down to write nothing comes and the more that happens the more ...more
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How to Overcome Fear of Speaking, Podcasting, Live Streaming, Webinars and More
Is fear holding you back from engaging in mediums like Live streaming, Podcasting, webinars, talking-head videos or even speaking at live events? Over the last couple of years we’ve seen amazing opportunities open up to bloggers who are willing to embrace some of these mediums – but alongside the opportunities, ...more
Social Media
5 Reasons Batching Your Blog Content Can Improve Your Productivity
This is a guest contribution from Christian Karasiewicz. Do you ever find you’re always rushing to compose a blog post? Or maybe you meant to write a blog post, but life happened and you forgot? What if you could relieve the pressure of constant blogging and have content ready-to-go on ...more
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Top Takeaways for Bloggers from the International Food Blogger Conference 2015
This is a guest contribution from Thei Zervaki. Each year, the International Food Blogger Conference brings together USA-based and foreign food bloggers under the same roof. During the three-day event, participants taste food, improve their food writing skills, and learn more about the latest trends in photography and technology. As ...more
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Content Marketing – Secrets From an Entrepreneur Who Has Used It to Build a Successful Business
I’m really excited about this episode of the ProBlogger Podcast, as today I am sharing my interview with Dan Norris: serial entrepreneur and founder of WP Curve (which gives bloggers access to WordPress developers for unlimited small jobs). Dan recently spoke at the Australian ProBlogger event as part of the Small ...more
Blog Promotion
Writing Challenge: Write a “Mistakes” Blog Post
Today I want to give you a writing challenge – one of many we’ve done during the life of this podcast. We’ve tackled list posts, link posts, opinion posts, calls to action, review posts, and “how I do it” posts, and now it’s time to crack open our vulnerabilities with ...more
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