Turn Your Blog Posts into Books
My Milestone I’ve had an interesting response to my earlier blog post where I shared my milestone of having written and published 650 blog posts. This post is #658. One of the comments that surprised me most was by a colleague who didn’t know one other person who had even published 100 posts let along […]
Blogging: How often should I post?
Blogging often or not so? Previously we discussed ‘How long should your Blog Posts be?’. And today, we want to discuss a parallel question: How often should I post? These sorts of questions are important. And, there’s no definitive answer to any of them. It all depends on you. For almost all the rules about […]
Blog Posts: How long should they be?
Blog Posts are Like a Piece of String Previously we discussed podcast episodes and asked: How long should they be? This sparked some interesting discussions and lead to the same question being asked about blogging. How long should your blog posts be? Some of what we talked about in that article applies here too. And, […]
The Three Biggest Reasons to Blog
As William Shakespeare might have said (if he’d been alive today), “To blog or not to blog: that is the question”. If you want an online voice for yourself, your business, or your organization, your blog is your personal newspaper, radio and TV channel rolled into one. 1 Self Expression It’s been estimated over 100 […]
Book Rapper Context: Movies and Blogs
Have you ever wondered where the word ‘movie’ comes from? Usually, when something new is invented, it takes the name of some thing that exists, something that is already familiar to us. For example, the internet was once called an ‘information superhighway’. The ‘car’ was the ‘motor car’ which came from ‘motor carriage’. Before that, […]
We Blog – How will you manage your blog and your life?
Here’s our seventh slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel. It’s derived from Michael A Bank’s Blogging Heroes. This RAP looks at “Blog Life”: How will you manage your blog and your life? Here’s an octopus’ dozen of clues to manage your blog and your life. Full Time Blogging Blog […]
Create Breakthrough Results with a winning blog mindset
A Winning Blog Mindset To create breakthrough results with your blog writing, you need to adopt the seven principles of a winning blog mindset. Your mindset are the beliefs, thoughts and attitudes you bring to any situation. In blogging, it’s your beliefs, thoughts and attitudes about what actions you take and what drives your success. […]
How to Get Traffic to your Blog
Here’s our fourth slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel. It’s derived from Michael A Bank’s Blogging Heroes. This RAP looks at “Blog Traffic”. With so many blogs out there, who’s going to read yours? And, how are they going to find you? We look at four traffic strategies for […]
We Blog 3: How to Make Money From Your Blog
While your blog can be a labour of love, it can also be a profit centre for your business or the centrepiece of your entire business. It all depends on the makeup and stats of your readership. Here are four strategies to consider in order to make money from your blog. This is an excerpt […]
We Blog – RAP2 – The Blog Medium – Getting Great Results for Your Blog
Here’s our third slideshow RAP of We Blog: How to Create Your Own Media Channel. It’s derived from Michael A Bank’s Blogging Heroes. This RAP looks at “The Blog Medium”. The better we understand the Blog Medium, the better the more successful your blog will be. We look at six qualities of the Blog Medium: […]