Go back in time and think about when you started your blog. You only had a few readers: your friends, your family and people you begged to subscribe. You were desperate to get some eye balls for your content. You were obsessed with it. Every single day you woke up, you logged in excitedly, with bated…
Trying to create fresh content around the same topic and in one specific industry can be really hard. There are no easy answers. The only way to consistently come up with new ideas, and have more ideas on hand than you’ll ever need is to make a habit of looking for them – and recording them there and…
I wish I was as successful as Jon Morrow. As talented as Stanford Smith (Pushing Social) - as enigmatic as Derek Halphern (Social Triggers). As business savvy as Mary Jaksch (Write to Done) – as prolific like Ali Luke (Aliventures) I wish I were an A-list blogger like Sonia Simone! (Copyblogger – need I say that?)…
Are you scared that your content sucks? Do you worry all the time if you are any good? Perhaps you should take some writing courses, or maybe you should quit? If you find yourself asking these questions, day in, day out, you are not alone. All of us ask them. Constantly. And the reason why…
Lately I have been noticing a tendency on my part to skim rapidly with most blog posts. Every post looks like it has been churned out by the same machine. They all feel the same. I wake up to an inbox full of emails that I get as a result of subscribing to many, many…
You have just penned an amazing blog post and you can’t wait to hit publish. I’ll suggest you hold on to your horses. And follow the 24 hour rule. And what is this 24 hour rule exactly, you might ask. It is simple; you never hand in any finished piece of writing, or publish anything…
A lot of people are asking whether it is possible to make good money offering freelance blogging services. The answer in one short word is – yes. (Who can forget that Jon Morrow charges around 3K for a blog post, I certainly haven’t). Yes, it is totally possible. However, that doesn’t mean it is also…
I’ll confess to something today. I am a read-a-holic! I read 2-3 books every week. Yes, you read it right – every single week. I have a big pile of books that sits right next to my bed. After everything has been said and done, I tuck in with a book. Usually, I am reading…
What is one thing that every freelancer, solopreneur and small business owner needs? Bucket loads of? Content. Specifically, online content. And where would this content live exactly? Well – on your blog, of course. You need to create loads of content - on your blog. That being said, I do not favour going ahead and creating…
