The following guest post was submitted by John Wesley who blogs at PicktheBrain.com (feed) about motivation, productivity, and self improvement. The Importance of Home Run Posts Most of you are probably familiar with the Pareto Principal, also known as the 80/20 rule. The rule states that 80% of results come ...more

Wendy has written a heart felt post on her blog titled The Things That Get You Successful Won’t Necessarily Keep You That Way which is basically about the realization that her current blogging business model is not really scalable. Some of the areas she’s seeing this in: I cannot respond ...more

The following guest post has been submitted by Trent Hamm from The Simple Dollar Hopefully, that title got your attention a little bit, but it’s true. I launched The Simple Dollar at the very end of October 2006. I had no pre-existing blog that I could use to drive early ...more

This Guest Post was submitted by Scott at Savvy Affiliate For a blogger, making mistakes can be embarrassing, but missing an opportunity can come at a huge cost. One thing that new bloggers sometimes have trouble with is the idea of jumping into things with both feet. Often times people ...more

Today’s Submissions to this week’s ProBlogger Group Writing Project have again blown me away (and proved to be quite a distraction for blogging, eating…. and getting out of my PJs!). In today’s batch there were 222 taking total participants in the project up to 596! There’s still time to enter ...more

Today I’m going to continue my interview with Gina Trapani of Lifehacker. Yesterday in Part 1 we talked about how she got into blogging and talked a little about being involved in one of the biggest blog networks going around. Today we turn our attention to Lifehacker itself and how ...more

Today’s guest post is from Chris Garrett from chrisg.com. In my last guest post here I listed some things we can learn from Darren’s blog. This time I am going to look at a blogger who many would like to emulate, if only for the fame, blog celebrity lifestyle and ...more

Over the weekend I ran an ‘open mike’ discussion which asked the question of How do you find Readers for Your Blog? There were quite a few responses to the question – some of which went a little unnoticed as they were moderated until I got home. So I thought ...more

In your quest for creating excellent content, you may have come across the following dilemma: I would love to create something important for my blog, but how do I, as a “mere” blogger contribute to that conversation at large? If I don’t create something de novo, will it be worth ...more