During my nine and a half years of blogging, I’ve been asked thousands of questions by other bloggers. About content, about networking, about selling stuff. I’ve been asked about my success, about my failures, about my headlines, about my introductions,…
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…
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…
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…
On the 22th of April, 2012, I signed up for a WordPress.com account. The same day I wrote and published my first blog post. I didn’t know how to write an article, what a headline was, or how to properly…
Two and a half years ago I was just about ready to quit blogging. First, because I thought there was nothing new to learn. I knew it all, I had reached the top of the mountain, and there was nowhere…
If you’re blogging now, and it feels like no one gives a damn about your words, if it feels like an uphill battle you can’t possibly win, then you’ve already given up. Even if you keep posting content. Even if…
