Welcome to the 2013 edition of Bloggers to Watch. My work has changed a lot over the past year—I’ve been focused a lot on the Australian blogger community, and on curators—so this post is very centered on those communities. This is the last time I’ll be writing this yearly round-up. ...more

This guest post is by Karl Staib of Domino Connection. Have you ever planned out your day and put marketing as the last thing on your list because you just can’t stomach another rejection? I know I did. I have a popular blog named Work Happy Now that gets 15,000 ...more

This guest post is by Pratik Dholakiya of E2M Solutions. You’ve heard it a thousand times. “You need great, original content.” And it’s becoming increasingly obvious that “original” isn’t the same thing as “not plagiarized.” There’s just one problem. Doing something truly original is hard. How can you make original ...more

This guest post is by Sean M. Madden of Mindful Living Guide. The cornerstone of my teaching is to write the truth of our own experience. They’re fine words, which roll off the tongue with ease. But I needn’t tell you how gut-wrenching it can be to put them into ...more

This guest post is by Stephen Pepper of Youth Workin’ It Why should Bill Gates have all the fun?—Al Andrews There are all sorts of reasons you may own a blog—to enhance your business site, to share ideas, to earn an income, or perhaps you just enjoy writing. Imagine the impact ...more

This guest post is by Chiara Mazzucco of TheIndieChicks.com. There are hundreds of thousands of articles written on being a successful blogger and driving traffic to your website or blog . Bleh. You can sit down and read each one, leading you to write your first blog post in about ...more

This guest post is by The Blogger. Let’s admit one thing. We all started this web thing honestly, naively. Our first site was designed to help people, to fill a gaping void we saw in the online world. We wanted to do so much good. Where, then, did it go ...more

The last few weeks have turned up some interesting new finds in the world of blogging. I’ve covered some of the more innovative ones here—let us know what cool ideas you’ve spotted in the comments. …and then she called me “Cupcake” I’m not in the target audience for Molly Maher’s ...more

This guest post is by Colin Olson of Fresh Essays. Every high-school superstar longs to follow in his sport hero’s footsteps. Small business owners idolize those on the Fortune 500 list. Likewise, blog writers can hope for the greatness of past literary giants. While many of the world’s most famous ...more