How To Blog and Start a Business
I recently wrote The Impatient Newbie’s Guide to Starting a Blog. If you’ve followed my advice, you took the time and spent the coins needed to at least get your own domain. No point in even talking about SEO if you didn’t. If you’re on Blogger or Weebly or Tumblr, you can leave the classroom. […]
Yesterday, you decided to start a blog. Tomorrow, you want your first post to go viral. I get it. You are eager. You are motivated. You are impatient. Tomorrow might be a bit ambitious to get that first post out, and certainly going viral isn’t easy. But there are ways to cut the time from […]
When you first start out with the idea that, “Hey. Why don’t I start a blog?” you probably don’t think about project management. But if that idea blossoms into a business, even a part-time business, you’ll find yourself juggling. Consider just one blog post. Here are the aspects you need to consider: the idea writing […]
There are some things that people take for granted without questioning them. Call them sacred cows, if you like. But we learn and grow from questioning, and when you have a bit of a rebel streak in you, as I do, you are likely to ask blasphemous questions. For instance, “Does a new blogger really […]
The really big social bookmarking websites have always been mean to bloggers. Reddit will cut off your head for submitting your own post. Digg won’t let your blog post get too far. On the other hand, smaller niche social bookmarking sites like MMOsocialnetwork, BizSugar, Blokube and My SEO Community encourage members to submit and promote […]
Over the years, I have known so many people to get booted off social bookmarking websites. Controversies over past account deletions at Digg – both merited and arbitrary – used to flood the blogosphere, but I also know so many people with zombie accounts at Reddit, and plenty of people who had accounts terminated at […]
