I’m not in the sugar-coating business, mostly because sugar, even though it tastes good, is kind of bad for you. I don’t like to tap-dance around the truth, because ignoring the truth is a gateway to a lot of frustration and heartbreak. But I haven’t been completely honest with you. No one who shares advice […]
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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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Three thousand blog posts published over eight and a half years of daily blogging… I’d say it’s a decent amount of content. Could I have written and published more? Sure. More is always the answer when it comes to how much work one can do. I could have written better posts, developed my projects better… […]
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When I first started blogging over eight years ago, I thought creating content was a piece of cake. Well, it turns out I was making the same mistakes, over and over again. Why? Because even if you are aware of what makes a fantastic blog post, it’s all too easy to forget them as you […]
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Great content is often fascinating because it seems effortless. It appears to be the collective effect of inspiration, genius, and eureka moments. There’s an old Italian word for this, sprezzatura, which blogger and marketer extraordinaire Seth Godin describes as, “a combination of elan and grace and class.” It is addictive, in part, because it seems […]
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There’s a lot of blogging advice out there. A lot. I’ve written some of it myself. More than five hundred articles, tutorials, how-to guides, step-by-step guides, habits, lessons, case studies, books, and online courses. But the truth is that most of the stuff I wrote, most of the advice I’ve given, it’s not going to […]
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As bloggers, it seems to me that we constantly try to figure things out. Especially when starting out. What blogging platform to use? What email service provider? What plugins? What other tools? That’s why I am sharing with you all the tools I use to make The Art of Blogging happen.
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One statistic I often share with people is that an average of 70 million new articles are being published on blogs every single month. But another statistic is the following: most of those articles are mediocre, because the bloggers themselves spend an average of 3 hours writing, editing, and formatting their articles. The result? It’s […]
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I’ve been blogging on a daily basis since April, 2012. I’ve been a full-time blogger since November, 2012. I have launched a number of different blogs, and have published well over 3,000 articles over the years. All in all, it’s safe to say that I did the “required” 10,000 hours of work. But all this […]
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