Tag: blog strategy

This guest post is by Natalie Webb of Leave Me to My Projects. You started your blog because you were passionate. You wanted to write about everything you love. You wanted to inspire people with your passions and your well-rounded knowledge in all of your areas of expertise. You wanted ...more

It’s standard professional blogging wisdom that to succeed in blogging, you need to choose a niche. This is a point that I’ve made many times, and it’s advice I still stand by. That said, there are many, many bloggers out there with multi-topic blogs who aren’t about to “niche down” ...more

This guest post is by Alden Tan of Alden-Tan.com. So you got your blog started up. It’s time to put everything in place. You start to study the market and conduct all the research needed. You read up on other blogs, scout forums, and buy an ebook that’s supposed to ...more

This guest post is by Michael Chibuzor of Content Marketing Up. Let’s face it: updating your blog on a daily basis doesn’t necessarily make you smart. It might be helpful, but there is more to blogging than writing. How about doing this online “thing” as if it’s a real business? A brick ...more

This guest post is by Mike Holmes of the Simple Strategies for Startups blog. You don’t need me to tell you about Pinterest do you? I’m pretty sure you’ve heard all the media outlets singing its praise: the fastest growing site its user base is mostly female its breakthrough rise ...more

As Ash explained in her post today, using blogging as a platform from which to sell consulting services can be effective and lucrative. Blogging has long been respected as a method for supporting offline businesses, but as the potential of blogging in general has evolved, so too have the options ...more

This post is by Ash Ambirge of The Middle Finger Project. It’s the sixth and final post in our series on Blog Business Models. I’m well-mannered, I like pearls, intelligent opinions, and fine French cheeses. (Ditto fine French wine.) (And fine French men.*) I also happen to run a six-figure blog ...more

Training and electronic courses are common product offerings for bloggers, and as the range of tools and services available to help us create and market engaging courses has grown, so has the competition in this space. Jules Clancy talked earlier today about offering classes and training as a blog business ...more

This is the fifth post in our series on Blog Business Models. When you think of online training as a blogging business model, cookery classes may not be the first topic that springs to mind. But Jules Clancy of The Stone Soup has created a successful cooking class business around ...more