Mar
04

Blog Food Series: Secret Blog Ingredient #3

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I love watching challenges on Food Network. I especially enjoy the Iron Chef. Each chef is given some strange ingredient to use to create something new and delicious. This causes them to stretch their imagination.  They have to come up with an impressive dish with ingredients that many people believe are unappetizing and turn it…
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Mar
03

Blog Food Series: Secret Blog Ingredient #2

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Yesterday’s post Blog Food: A Recipe for a Better Blog I talked about an essential blog ingredient: passion and discussed ways to measure whether or not you have enough for your chosen blog niche and what to do to reignite fizzling passion. Passion is a necessary component, but it won’t matter how much passion you…
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Mar
02

Blog Food: A recipe for a better blog series

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Is your blog starving to death? Are you not providing your blog the basic essentials it needs to stay healthy? The rest of this week, I’ll be bringing you tasty morsels of food for your blog. Each day I will reveal a different ingredient that will help you cook up a better blog. This is…
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Feb
24

How to ensure your blog is never found

Man in a whole

Another tip for your blog Here’s the one and only tip you’ll ever need if you don’t want your blog to be discovered by Google or anyone else for that matter …are you ready? Tip: Stop writing That’s it, that’s all you have to do if you’d prefer to keep your blog hidden under a…
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Feb
23

Original blog content vs. original ideas

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Does it ever seem like almost every other site is discussing the same topic as you are? It’s like the same group of topics are circulating from one blog to another, and we’re just passing them around like hot potatoes. You write something you thought was a light-bulb moment for you, only to discover, another…
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Jan
30

Get to the Point by Breaking Your Blog Posts

I’m a Pastor, so I preach to a congregation several times per week. There are a couple of pivotal moments in my preaching career in which my whole approach to delivering sermons changed. One of those was when I read Andy Stanley’s book Communicating for a Change. Stanley talks about a very simple principle –…
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Dec
08

Your Blog Is Bigger Than Any One Post

Your next blog post might make you hundreds or millions of dollars overnight. You’ll write an ebook, teach a course, offer a certification for others who want to write similar posts, and you’ll be “successful”… right?

Nov
30

Write 10 Posts To Ensure the Transparency of Your Blog’s Niche

Many steps take place prior to making your blog public.  These steps range from selecting your blog niche to the actual name of your blog. These steps can take time or be quick, all predetermined by your overall knowledge of blogging techniques and what to do to get your blog started.  One thing I have…
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Nov
27

21 Words to Use Other Than THINGS In Your Article Titles

things

Let me tell you three things wrong with using the word things in so many of your titles, like “Ten Things To Remember About Blogging…” After all, things isn’t really one of the most potent things you can say… Tools Details Interests Passions Practices Habits Tricks Ways Methods Concepts Principles Points Tips Tasks Ideas Actions…
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Nov
24

Does Your Blogging Leave An Impact?

I headed out of the house to pick my wife (then girlfriend) up for church one night and took a back county road to her house. About halfway there, I was struck suddenly in the side by a deer. He jumped a fence out of nowhere and his head crushed into my fender so hard…
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Nov
13

We Blog Better is Opening to Guest Posts

Of all the blogs I’ve ever launched (and it’s probably a few too many), We Blog Better has been one of the most successful in terms of traffic, exposure, influence, and community interaction. I’m having a ball! One of the ways I’m enjoying it the most is finding ways to help and support other bloggers.…
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Nov
11

Writing Great Posts from Life’s Overflow

If all great leaders are great listeners (and they are), it is equally true that all great writers are great readers. And our best writing will be done from the overflow of a head and heart full of inspiration. When I was a kid, I occasionally got to go on an emergency call with my…
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