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Post Post Post… yawn… Post Post Post… sigh… Post Post Post… eyes glazing over… Do you ever find blogging a little mind numbing as a blogger? Do you ever look at other people’s blogs and feel a little bored? Most bloggers who have been blogging for a sustained period of ...more

LeftTheBox asks “Hey Darren I know you post daily but do you try to post at a certain time each day?” I certainly do! I not only set myself minimum post numbers each day but I’ve taken it a little further and narrowed down some daily posting windows that I ...more

HaraldJohnsen asks “As a quality control, what are the most important questions to ask before hitting ‘submit’ / posting a blog post?” Great question Harald – I actually think that most of us as bloggers could improve many of our posts by pausing before hitting ‘submit/publish’ and asking a few ...more

Many bloggers suffer from the daily grind of having to find new posts for their blog – but what if there was an easier way? What if your next post was right before you in the activities that you do each day? One great way to find new content for ...more

You get an idea for a post – it might start out as just a few words, a title, a point or two – but how do you take the idea and mould it into a full post? In he above video (see a full sized version of it here) ...more

In this post Abhijeet Mukherjee from Jeet Blog (where he writes about tech tweaks, blogging tips and productivity hacks) asks ‘do you write from the heart?’ As professional bloggers, freelancers or writers, sometimes we tend to be skeptical about our own content. We tend to think more about external aspects ...more

Today I’m posting a reader question as a discussion starter. It comes from Richard King: Hey Darren – I blog casually and largely for my own benefit but I read your blog because I occasionally flirt with the idea of “doing things properly” and I think you post some great ...more

In this post Muhammad Saleem asks why do you write? Muhammad is a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on many social sites. image by mezone Why Do You Write? Sounds like an odd question at first, doesn’t it? The reason why you write actually has a big ...more

In today’s video post I want to show you a technique that can help those of us struggling to come up with ideas to post about on our blogs to discover post ideas that are relevant to what our readers are looking for information on. In the few minutes that ...more