Nov
10

What I Learnt About Blogging from a Hairy, Scary Thing

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Building your blog is like waiting for those hairy, scary, things to bloom. We need patience, help, skills and individuality to succeed. Which tips have you followed to help your blog to ‘bloom’? Let’s start a list…

Jul
21

8 Ways I Promote My Blog

Blogging is not easy.  I actually believe it is one of the hardest jobs one can have.  It gets even harder in my neck of the woods, but I continue pushing.  Why? Because I am passionate about putting information out here that will help others change their lives.

Feb
06

Five Dimensions for the Growth of Your Blog (Part 5)

All week I’ve been discussing the five dimensions of growth your blog should reflect. We started with growing warmer, then talked about growing deeper, moved on to growing stronger, and yesterday covered growing broader. I want to close the series by sharing the aspect of growth we focus on most of all – how to…
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Feb
01

67 Ways to Get Your Content Into the Cloud

I’ve been doing a series of videos about how to get your content into the cloud, meaning, how to take what you’re publishing on your blog and get it into the cloud of content consumption in which web users live and breathe each day Rather than trying to create a video for each method, or…
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Jan
15

100 Bloggers Only – Promote Your Best Posts Here

I’ll be brief. I’ve created a Google group. The purpose is simple – ask other bloggers to promote your posts that you feel are worthy of the world’s attention. There are several important catches though that will hopefully make it worth while… I’m going to close new memberships after 100 bloggers have joined so it…
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Jan
09

Why Not Blog Unselfishly?

Let me be blunt – five minutes spent on some blogs makes me feel… dirty! No, I’m not talking about blogs with questionable material, but rather blogs that are built on greed. It’s one of my pet peeves, and it’s one of the reasons blogging is getting a bad name – greedy bloggers marketing to…
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Dec
29

Meebo & Wibiya: Two Good Options to Add Interactivity to Your Blog

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There’s a sweet little race going on between two cool resources for adding interactivity to your blog. It’s Meebo versus Wibiya, and both offer some cool ways to involve your readers in both promoting your site, and participating in discussion on your site.

Dec
02

Do Not Be Annoying When Promoting Your Blog

Think of all the ways there are to promote your blog. You have Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Digg, and any other social media site.  Then you have blogging networks like Blogged, Blog Engage, and Blog Catalog.  Finally, there are the powers of word-of-mouth and then through any comment made on any other blog. All of these…
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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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