Creating content is a lot of work and most of us are not Seth Godin or Neil Patel, churning out profound and/or helpful posts on a daily basis. To get out two to three pieces of great writing a week is a huge success! So what about the other four days a week? I recommend […]
Promoting Your Clients Content
One of the main jobs of a social media manager is to promote your client’s content or even come up with ideas for awesome content? Imagine you’re preparing a steak dinner – it’s going to be much harder to eat it if you plunk down a giant roast at a table and hand all your […]
Discovering Your Niche, Even if You’ve Been Blogging Forever
Whether you’ve been blogging for a month or a decade, sometimes taking inventory of your blog and its niche, is necessary. Take a moment and answer the following questions: What do you want to be known for? What kind of person loves your blog? If you had to write a one sentence mission statement for […]
10 Ways To Brown Nose Before You Submit A Guest Post
Today’s guest post is from Beyond Your Blog! Susan Maccarelli is the creator of Beyond Your Blog, a resource site focused on helping bloggers submit their writing to websites and anthologies seeking contributors. Beyond Your Blog offers tips and tricks for submitting writing as well as submission opportunities and a weekly podcast interview with an […]
Inside the Writing Process with Fabulous Blogging
I don’t usually participate in blog hops and link ups with Fabulous Blogging, but I thought I would do this one because it’s helpful to get inside the writing process of a blogger if you are a beginner yourself! The gals over at the Science of Parenthood are friends and fellow bloggers — even guest […]
Pitch Yourself | Submitting Your Blog Posts to Other Sites
At some point in your blogging career, you might realize that without a little networking and collaboration, your ability to gain new readers is limited. It’s a huge misconception that other bloggers in your niche are your competition. The opposite is in fact, true. There are countless testimonials of bloggers who were launched into the […]
Why Most People Misuse the Famous Rule “Content is King”
Content is king. This is one of the golden rules of blogging. Create compelling, practical, entertaining, and formatted blog posts that your readers will enjoy reading, so much so, they feel compelled to share it. Here’s the problem… People think about the word CONTENT and immediately think of the word BLOG POST. Your content is not […]
A List of 22 Easy (and mostly free) Blogging Tools
Have you ever wanted to sneak into your favorite blogger’s computer and see what tools and programs he/she uses to make her website look so awesome? Well, I have. And I’ve stalked other bloggers trying to find the best, easiest, and inexpensive tools. So this is my blogging toolbox. Every single one of these websites […]
Five Types of Blog Posts You Should Be Writing to Gain Traffic
In this post, I identify five distinctly different types of blog posts, and why you need to be writing them to maximize your exposure online.
Checklist of Things to Do Before You Publish a Blog Post
So you write a blog post and hit publish. In many cases, the content is the easiest part! It’s all the other stuff that takes time, energy, and a little bit of know-how. But some of it is necessary to make sure your blog is seen and heard on the Internet. Before you hit publish, […]
How to Create Readable Blog Posts
Today we’re going to talk about your text. The content is the most important part of a blog right? Those words you slave over day after day. If you write with one big block of words, people will move on. Blog writing is different than article writing or book writing. Long paragraphs are out. Keeping […]