The 10 Step Framework for Building a Blog with Big Foundations
Nineteen with little money. Need wheels? So you buy a car that promises much but breaks down when getting to that important meeting or date that matters. It’s expediency driven by budget, necessity and inexperience. You bought a lemon. Blogging is not that different. Sometimes we are so eager to get started that we cobble [...]
How to Make Money from Your Blog: 11 Powerful Case Studies
In 2005 a Greek American woman started a political blog. As the traffic grew more funding was required. This meant that in August 2006 the venture fund SoftBank Capital was called upon to invest $5 million into the site to hire more staff and to provide the resources needed to make the updates to feed [...]
The Top 10 Most Infuriating Things about WordPress and How to Fix Them
Using WordPress is an experience that is very much like using another CMS, but it is also an experience that is completely unlike using any other CMS. Maybe it is the “duct tape,” DIY nature of PHP coding, maybe it is the first-to-market nature of any product that explodes into worldwide recognition, or maybe it [...]
7 Tips to Finding “Your” Writing Voice
Have you ever stumbled upon a blog and thought…”Was this written by an android, a robot or was it a Martian?“ Maybe it was produced by someone that had a personality bypass. Whatever it was, it didn’t seem human. That, I think touches on what a “voice” is. It is about being human, displaying a [...]
7 Tips and Tools to Stop Content Thieves in their Tracks
Are you sick of people copying your content without your permission or attribution? I am sure you are… Plagiarism has been an issue on the web for years and with every new generation of bloggers come another group of lazy people who are prepared just to copy your content and then paste it all over [...]








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