If there’s one thing I’m quite the expert on, that’s alienating a large, engaged audience. Seriously. I started my first blog back in April 2012. By November the same year, I had over twenty thousand readers. I was earning about…
I believe that an aspiring blogger should, above all else, work towards building the sort of clarity of purpose that enables them to figure out if they should invest a lot of time and energy into creating content and sharing…
It’s not pleasant being the new guy. There’s always a bit of discomfort, a bit of friction when starting something new. And the truth is that, most times, the advice that is out there on the web is kind of…
“It wasn’t by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.” Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to his editor, Maxwell Perkins The average age…
I’ve been lucky enough to be a full-time blogger for the past nine years. But… it’s not a walk in the park, not unless that park is somehow called, “Jurassic Park.” It’s not. The bottom of the food chain is…
Here’s a secret I am kind of ashamed to admit. Even though I write at least 100 blog posts every month, I never feel like writing. I’d much rather scroll the day away on social media. But I don’t. How…
There’s this fascinating story about Pablo Picasso being able to produce a work of art in a few minutes. Apparently, a woman once asked Picasso (who was either at a café or in a market) to do a drawing for…
I’m sure you’ve heard the term “target audience” being used by a lot of bloggers, but what exactly does it mean? Well, your target audience is the group of people you’re writing to. They are the ones who are most…
I remember zero as both frustrating and heartbreaking, the kind of feeling that makes you so angry you feel like crying. I remember when no one ever read my articles, no one ever bothered to comment on my content. Worst…
Believe it or not, email is still one of the best ways to reach people directly. You get far better engagement, it’s not as intrusive or obnoxious as SMS marketing or push notifications, and it doesn’t have the limitations in…
