CategoryWriting Content

This guest post is by Barb Sawyers of Sticky Communication. When I first started to write professionally, I hated people editing my work. To deal with these personal attacks, I would rant, cry, drink too much, and otherwise freak out. But one day I parked my ego long enough to ...more

Yesterday, we published the second post in a series of guest posts written by author Greg McFarlane here at ProBlogger. And recently you’ll have noticed our multi-author series on generating blog comments. So today I thought it might be interesting to talk about the thinking behind trying out series, and ...more

This guest post is by Kraig Stewardson of IT Manager HQ. My blog was failing. My subscribers were nonexistent. My posts were disjointed. My writing was awful. My confidence was shot. Honestly, I felt like giving up. I knew that I needed to make a change. I knew that I ...more

This guest post is by Jane Sheeba. “Success” is a very relative term. Unless you define it precisely, it’s very easy to become lost in a sea of assumptions. You can work hard on building a blog without having defined your “success,” but if you do, how will you know ...more

This guest post is by Brad Smith of fixcourse.com. So you want to make money blogging? You want a popular blog that gets thousands of visitors each day, and the attention and respect you’ve been looking for. So what’s stopping you? What’s holding you back? You’re cranking out content, just ...more

This guest post is by Alexander Heyne of Milk the pigeon. You do a series of incredibly useful posts that get a great response, or you get some massive traffic spikes from guest posting, Stumbleupon, Youtube, or your content randomly going viral. Your content teaches people something useful, it’s immediately applicable, ...more

This guest post is by Sean M. Madden of Mindful Living Guide. I’ve been teaching creative writing, along with mindful living, for years now. And I can say, without hesitation, that fear is ubiquitous. Its presence, more than anything else, stops writers in their tracks. All seems to be going ...more

This guest post is by Dawn Walnoha of Brandsplat. In all writing, blogging being no exception, there is a fine line between borrowing ideas and plagiarizing content. Since the issue is not clearly defined the same way everywhere, it is open to interpretation. And that means the line is somewhere in a ...more

There’s one technique for soliciting comments that hasn’t been covered explicitly this week, although we’ve shown it through each of the posts we’ve published in this series. What is that technique? Being honest. When we approached the bloggers who wrote posts for the series, we told them we really wanted ...more