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Blog Tips to help you blog better
The way you start your blog posts makes a big difference in whether or not they get read—do you know how to start them well? To help you craft winning introductions, here are seven ideas for better beginnings. 1. Ask a Question. Ask your readers a question, and you engage them from the start. You…
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Writing is one of those professions that leave little room for error. While our small grammatical errors might not kill someone (thankfully), they can be harmful in the sense that we’ve been paid to know the correct time to use a semicolon. If we come up short, we have disgruntled clients demanding refunds. There’s a…
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“I really want to start a blog, but I really hate to write,” someone said to me recently. The sarcastic response that immediately surfaced in my mind: “How do you expect to blog without writing?” Instead, after a few moments of thought, I said, “There are other ways to produce content besides writing. I can’t…
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If you’re in the business of Internet marketing, content strategy must already be an idea clear to you. There is no way of achieving any long-term success without one. But with the rapid advances in technology, you need to start updating your content strategy to keep up. Simply looking for the right keywords and using…
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Studies show that bloggers are very social online, and tend to be active on social media sites, including Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. With 11 Twitter accounts created every second; over 200 million tweets sent per day; and an estimated 500 million users; this site is growing in size and usage faster than its competitors. What…
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For the most part, I love writing. If you’re a blogger, most likely you enjoy writing, also. But no matter how much we love it, there comes a time when it’s hard to produce it or produce it at the level of quality we’d like to. There are times when it feels like I’m literally…
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Oh, the English language—could it be any more complicated with its rules and all of the exceptions to those rules? If you’re lucky enough to be born an English speaker (saving you the incredible challenge of having to learn English as a second language—argh!), then you probably learned many of the critical grammar rules at…
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An ongoing struggle exists among bloggers, attempting to reconcile two opposite ideas: 1) the discipline of posting on a regular schedule and 2) the creative value of posting when you’re inspired. Does inspiration come from discipline, or does forcing content only lower its quality? Should you wait until you have something valuable to say, or…
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We all derive inspiration from different things in life. Some find inspiration in imagery, for others it’s scents or sounds or interesting places. For many of us, it’s all of the above in various shapes and forms and depending on the mood we are in. Here, we highlight several unique things you can do in…
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It used to be that blogging was a pastime people would employ to make their opinions known. These days, blogging can be a great way to either supplement your income, and many even make a full-time living at is! Businesses are willing to pay good money for great blog content in order to keep their…
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For many this is a “duh” statement, but most bloggers remain inside the “box that works” more often than you’d expect. When someone has a profitable blog, it takes a lot of work and things can be stressful. You want to make sure that nothing goes wrong, and so the days of the blogger are…
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Welcome to the first We Blog Stalk of 2013! Happy New Year and here’s hoping all of you have a wonderful year to look forward to! For those of you who are new to this; do check out the previous one we did and here’s a little introduction of what we do. As the title…
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The Secret to Getting Blog Comments
By Shanna Mallon | Blogging, Write Better, Writing
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Whether you blog for your business or about being a stay-at-home mom, comments are never a given—you have to earn an audience that interacts with you. And the way you earn comments is by writing content that elicits a response from your readers. What does that mean? To put it simply, if you want more…
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