How to Use a Magazine to Improve Your Blog Today’s episode is about how to use a magazine to help you improve your blog – using ‘old media’ to help you improve your approach to ‘new media’. As well as being simple – and potentially a bit of fun – looking ...more

How to Leave Comments on Other Blogs Today’s episode is all about how you can leave comments on other blogs to build relationships and grow your blog’s audience. Photographer smiling in satisfaction at her images by Lars Zahner on 500px In this Episode You can listen to today’s episode above ...more

How to Create an Editorial Calendar for your Blog Yesterday I challenged you to come up with at least 10 blog post ideas for your blog. Today we’re going to take those ideas and begin to form an editorial calendar around them – specifically we’re looking to create an editorial ...more

How to never run out of ideas for blog posts and be aware of latest developments in your niche Being productive and producing great content for your blog is so important – which is why we’ve had a number of episodes so far that have been ‘writing challenges’ (see episode ...more

How to Improve Your Blog by Watching What Other Bloggers Do It’s day 4 in our 31 days to build a better blog challenge and today is one of my favourites – in fact it’s something I do very regularly in my own blogging. It’s all about spending time on ...more

This is a guest contribution from Puranjay Singh. Around six months ago, I quit my job to make a living as a writer. It wasn’t that I didn’t enjoy my work; it was just that I wanted to travel and needed the freedom of freelancing. I didn’t know a lot ...more

Do you feel a bit like a slave to your social media? Always thinking about your next blog post, forgetting to respond to that guy on Twitter, and never Pinning at the right time? I know what it’s like to always feel like you’re running to catch up, instead of ...more

This is a guest contribution from Karol K. You can read the first and second post in this mini series here and here.… “[…] then the evening came and she found herself sitting by the drawing board again, trying to […]” Um … wait a minute, is it “sitting by ...more

When you make the decision to grow your blog and hopefully create an income from it, it can be so easy to fall into the trap of doing everything all at once in the name of getting as much exposure as you can. You’re blogging every day, you’re promoting those ...more