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10 Ways Multi-blog Authors Can Stay Creative and Generate Great Posts
This guest post is by Jo Gifford of Cherry Sorbet Creative. Keeping fresh and creative is key to keeping on top of the game when writing different blogs across various sectors, and for various clients. Working with efficient workflows, time management and organization all help to keep that valuable information ...more
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Un-dull Your Blog Posts: Four Fiction Techniques to Try
This guest post is by Harry Bingham of Writers’ Workshop. Most blog posts are dull. They might be well-informed, offer interesting insights, teach useful things—but they can do all those things and still be dull. Although readers do come to blogs to learn, they are only ever two clicks away ...more
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How to Write Irresistible Blog Intros
This guest post is by Andrea Wren from Butterflyist.com, Did you know that I like to have sex on roller coasters? Yes, there’s nothing that does it for me more than wondering if my partner will puke at the point of, um, no return. Okay I’m fibbing. I can’t even ...more
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12 Blogging Lessons I Learned From Maxim Magazine
This guest post is by Tom Treanor of Right Mix Marketing. Maxim magazine. It’s banned in my house (unless it’s used for research purposes). With its revealing covers, dependence on taboo topics, and issues jam-packed with girls, booze, and cars, you’d think researching Maxim magazine would lead to a wasteland ...more
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Pageviews are Good. Pagereads are Better.
This guest post is by Paula Pant of Afford-Anything and Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Have you noticed how so many blogs are just … terrible? There’s no polite way to say it. The writing is garbage, the design inelegant, the content inane. A bird pecking at a worm-scented ...more
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3 Lessons On Blogging from My Son… the Artist
Our kitchen table is in a perpetual state of creativity. Marker pens, sketch books, glue sticks, and paint sets are make their permanent home there because my five-year-old son (X) is a self-declared Artist. While there are some challenges with living with an Artist… (last night I almost broke my ...more
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Forget Blogging as Usual: 5 Outrageous Tips for Super-sized Attention
This guest post is by Neil Patel of KISSmetrics. It happens every minute. About six thousand new blog posts are published. That’s a lot. Blogs have given enormous power to people. It’s given them a chance to have a voice in a world that used to be controlled by gatekeepers ...more
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Mastering the Art of Slow Blogging
This guest post is by Kelly Kingman of Kelly Kingman Media. Several years ago, I hired a personal trainer and we’d work out in the park near my apartment. One day she had me run the loop around the park and noticed that I had difficulty keeping a consistent pace, ...more
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Writers Block? Try this Quick Tip
Recently on Twitter I was asked by a follower how to overcome an extreme case of writer’s block. My answer was: “Think about a problem you had three years ago and write a post that solves that problem.” The reason I find this technique helpful is: It identifies a real ...more
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