I’ve been blogging daily since April 2012. Since then, I published more than 2000 articles on art, inspiration, writing, motivation, and, yes, blogging.. And if I look back on what pieces got the highest exposure, follower growth, and made the…
Correct me if I’m wrong: you know you should write a blog post. After all, it’s been a while since you last hit that publish button. Yet, somehow, without you realizing it, you spend hours on Twitter and Facebook “working,” only…
What’s better: quality or quantity? I know what you’re thinking. You probably think of quality and quantity as opposites. You also think quality is far more important than quantity. But… What is quality exactly? Quality is almost impossible to define.…
A couple of things happened the last week that made me realize an important aspect of blogging: I bought a Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2 smartphone. I finally decided to become a YouTube Premium subscriber. Let me explain.
What do you do when you have no idea what to blog about? If you struggle to answer this question, let me ask, “How consistent are you?” That’s why you need a plan of action for taking all the work…
Blogging isn’t what it used to be. It’s not exactly dead, it’s not dying, it’s just… different. When I started blogging seven years ago, all you had to do was create a blog, share some decent content, be consistent, and…
When it comes to blogging, holding your reader’s attention is everything. On average, only 1 out of 10 visitors will read past your headline. You want to engage your audience, you want your writing to have a certain flow and…
It’s easy to get discouraged when reading about the millions and millions of other folks who also blog. The good news? Most of them kind of suck, because they never bother to do a bit of research, to learn from…
The truth about writing is that it’s 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration; a good writer starts with a quick burst of creativity and spends the rest of their time refining and editing those initial ideas. This ratio of creating vs.…
There are 36,260,021 blogs indexed on WordPress.com alone. Wait a sec. Make that 36,260,131. And there are a lot more self-hosted blogs, or on different platforms. About a million blog posts get published every 24 hours. Every topic, every theme,…
