Gary Bencivenga, the legendary copywriter, offers some excellent advice: when people first sign up to your blog, send them a welcome message telling them about what you stand for. In your copy, especially your Welcome Letter, never be afraid to say with clarity and boldness precisely what you believe and specialize in. Stand for something and you…
It’s my birthday today I am older than yesterday All my friends are coming over to play And they’ll all sing Happy Birthday This is the only birthday song that I can think of today. Is it ironic that its from Play School? Something that my 4 year old was singing this May? I do think…
Somebody asked me the other day, how long have you been blogging for? I am thinking they were trying to suss me out, to see if I have got enough experience to be dishing any kind of advice – much less blogging advice. My answer? A couple of months of actual writing – and 3…
What is your biggest excuse to not post regularly? Bet I know what you’re going to say. What keeps you from actually writing something down? As soon you plonk yourself before your computer, what happens? Is it lack of time? Really? Well, funny I have the same complaint as well. And so do the hundreds…
It is after 3 months that I am logging in to my blog. Yes, I am alive. Yes, I went away for an extended holiday to my homeland. Yes, I went with the full intention of logging in as soon as jet lag wore off. Sadly it didn’t happen for me like that, nothing like that…
1. I am fine tuning an idea for a niche. I am going to polish it, add few posts with the underlying theme and see how the readers like it. 2. I am going to post three times a week, and space them out evenly. Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays might work. 3. I am going to…
My husband wants to know what I want for my birthday. Actually that’s not my husband, my kids want to know so they can get their dad to buy it, even when the birthday has already passed. I have trained my kids well. The answer is a bit of a problem. I am not a stuff…
What I did today. got up in the wee hours got kid ready for school made lunches wrestled with little one to have a try on the potty finally got him to stop crying did school run had a fight with hubby on the way got home, turned laptop on had breakfast in front of telly…
