Be honest. Are you where you want to be as a blogger? Are your articles getting shared and discussed and linked to? Are you being mentioned by others in your niche? No? Well… If your posts aren’t getting the traction you want, you might trick yourself into thinking you’re not a good enough blogger. But the […]
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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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What’s the second most important part of your blog post after the headline? The introduction, of course. Imagine how disappointed you’d be after spending an insane amount of time to come up with a killer headline for your post, only to lose readers within the first paragraph or two. A great headline mixed with a […]
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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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A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce. These diehard fans will drive 200 miles to see you sing; they will buy the hardback and paperback and audible versions of your book; they will purchase your next figurine sight unseen; they will pay for the “best-of” DVD version of […]
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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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The Ancient Greeks loved to tell the story of Procrustes, a rogue smith and bandit who would offer to host travelers, invite them to sleep in a special bed for the evening. Procrustes assured the weary travelers the bed would be perfect for any person who slept in it. Unfortunately for them, Procrustes would take […]
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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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