How do you explain to someone what is the point of blogging and why you do it? Here are some reasons. What’s yours?
Jun
17
Bloggers Unite: Spam the Spammer Day
Over the past few weeks, instead of deleting spam comments from the queue, I’ve been letting them accumulate. For the life of me, I can’t understand why someone might choose this style of marketing. I’ve heard that many of them rake in quite a bit of short-term money. But it’s so unethical – how can…
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Jun
15
My Blog Schedule: Blogging and Time Management
Everyday I fight against millions of potentially distracting pieces of information. My time is precious – I’m juggling entirely too many things to give in to procrastination – yet some days I loose the battle. I don’t want to loose the war, so I had to arm myself with a schedule and learn to focus…
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Jun
05
Homeless Blogger – Worst Case Scenario
What is your worst nightmare – your worst case scenario that keeps you from trashing it all and going for your blogging dream? I encountered a similar question in Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Work Week. It’s funny because just the day before I encountered this section of the book, my hubby and I…
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Jun
01
Blogging that’s better for the body
I love blogging and I love writing, but I must tell you, sitting all day is driving me nuts and making me fat. I know, the extra M&Ms don’t help, but when I was teaching, I was up and moving around all day. I had time to hit the gym for lunch and I still…
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Nov
20
11 Books on Every Bloggers’ Wishlist
I love books and have a personal library of hundreds of volumes. I’ve also started using the Amazon Wishlist feature to sort of bookmark resources I’d like to have. A few of the following are not on my list because I already have them. Others, I haven’t read but would like to own. The first…
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Nov
07
Mediocre Will Do Just Fine, Won’t It?
Mediocre makes money. You’ll get paid if you do mediocre stuff in life. Do your job, punch the clock, collect the check. In the world of blogging… get a decent domain, throw up a WordPress site, aggregate some good content, integrate adsense, make some Christmas spending money. Do it one hundred times, all mediocre of…
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Nov
03
Why the English Language Stinks for Blogging
English is all I know. I tried Spanish 101 in college – crawled out with a “C”. I do know some Greek, but it’s Koine Greek, which nobody speaks anymore. So I’m stuck blogging in English, which is challenging. Why? Well… I didn’t write any of what follows – came to me in one of…
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