The 10 Key Mistakes Many Bloggers and Writers Make
Tweet I recently watched the final of the US Open women’s tennis and it was inspiring to see the endeavour, effort and expertise of each of the contestants. They slugged it out on center court with biceps bulging and lungs screaming as they battled to find an edge on their opponent. The shots seem effortless [...]
Past, Present and Future of Blogging: 3 Infographics
Tweet Blogging started in the 1990′s as online diaries. In 2011 Huffington Post, which became the largest blog in the world was sold to AOL for $315 million. Blogging has changed! We are witnessing the biggest revolution in publishing since the Gutenberg press was invented over 570 years ago. The printing press enabled writers to [...]
20 Ideas for Social Media Content That Engages
Tweet The cry of “Content is King” has been a rallying call for bloggers and on-line publishers for years. Creating and marketing your content is now as easy as typing text and uploading images and videos and then hitting the publishing button. This has been facilitated by the advent of social networks and blogging software that facilitate [...]
How a Blogger Can Build a Global Audience from Zero: Part Two – Marketing and Momentum
Tweet The blogger’s biggest challenge is to initially discover what will motivate them to get him up early or stay up late to create and market their ideas to a global audience. Once you have discovered that “secret sauce” that provides you with the fuel and horsepower necessary to provide that energy, it becomes easier [...]
How a Blogger can Build a Global Audience from Zero: Part One
Tweet If you are a entrepreneur or a blogger then there is a question you will need to ask yourself. “If you had to start from scratch, what are the steps that you would take to build a Global engaged audience?” 200 years ago when you built a business it was about starting local. Today [...]
5 Tools to Measure Your Social Media Success
Tweet We are surrounded by tools to measure almost everything we do in life. We have clocks to measure time, thermometers to record temperature and odometers to see how far we have traveled. As humans we are obsessed with measurement. The Olympics are the pinnacle of measurement and we even measure runners and swimmers times down [...]
Are You Making These 2 Cardinal Sins as a Blogger?
Tweet There are many very good writers and bloggers and they produce insightful articles and information that should be read. Their writing is clever and they are experts in their fields but many of these bloggers put obstacles in the way of digital discovery and on-line success. They could also be accused of stupidity. Now I don’t mean [...]
The Secret Behind Every Successful Blogger
Tweet I remember being woken up in the cold pre dawn before the sun rose by my father to help him launch the family ski boat to start the day of water skiing. Despite the tiredness and the teenage body and mind struggling with the early rise it wasn’t hard to rise from bed with [...]
How To Use Your Blog as a Viral Online Publishing Hub
Tweet Blogs started as logs of people’s lives on the web hence the term “web log” which evolved into the phrase “we blog” which was coined in the late 1990′s. The number of blogs is estimated at between 150 and 200 million depending whether you are reading Wikipedia or some other source. Blogs have now [...]
20 Simple Tips for Writing a Blog Post that Begs to be Read
Tweet On average, 8 out of 10 people will read headline copy, but only 2 out of 10 will read the rest. This is the secret to the power of your title, and why it so highly determines the effectiveness of the entire article. The reality though is that the headline is just the start!… [...]
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