If you have competition, now you have others helping you explain the category. With competition, you can say things like, “We’re like Uber, but without the scandals.” Seth Godin We often point to our competition as the source of all our troubles. It’s because of our competition that we have to work harder to get […]
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A few months ago I read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink, a book that examines how first impressions have a powerful effect on us on a subconscious level. Or in other words, we do judge a book by its cover. Now, let’s think about your article. The one you just published. When it went live, it was […]
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Who doesn’t love quotes? A good quote can uplift you. It can encourage you when you feel like giving up. It can inspire you to punch those damn keys. A good quote can even become your blog’s motto. That’s why I’ve compiled this list of quotes about writing. So you feel inspired and motivated to […]
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Of course, I don’t a million words a day, but this is the kind of post we’ll have to write in order to get people to read our content. And pretty soon we’ll have to actually write a million words every single day. Don’t get me wrong, I love writing. Every single word of it. […]
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There’s a lot of blogging advice being shared all over the web. I’ve written quite a bit of it myself. How to write an amazing blog post, how to earn X amount of money, how to build an audience. Tips, tricks, strategies, how-to guides, and step-by-step tutorials. All of them offering valid advice, all of […]
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There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway Darius Foroux wrote this gem of an article, and I want to add my own words. Blogging is mostly a balancing act. Just like walking on tightrope. On one hand, you have to write about the things […]
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Yesterday I ran my articles through a plagiarism detector. Fun tool. Never used one before. Anyway, I found a couple of blogs that copy-pasted some of my articles (errors included, sorry about that), and that was it. All of them had no likes whatsoever, no comments at all. I mean, nada. Zero. Zilch.
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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 do I do it? How do I write two articles before everyone in my neighborhood […]
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Books are made out of books. Cormac McCarthy You often stare at the blank page, wondering whether what you’ll write will be good enough. You get distracted. Or, you have this idea that you really love, but… you soon realize someone else has already written about it. What is the point of even blogging if […]
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I’ve been lucky enough to be a full-time blogger for the past eight 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 overcrowded, but all the alpha predators are at the top. It’s a hypercompetitive environment, which […]
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