What is the secret ingredient to success as a blogger? Is it inspiration? Motivation? Is it the ability to treat blogging as an art or as a business? The answer is simple. The secret ingredient is strategy. What are the strategies…
Be honest. You often dream of writing an epic blog post, the kind that gets sharedthousands of times, liked, tweeted, and pinned, commented on by hundreds of otherbloggers… in other words, you wish to write the type of blog post…
Alexander the Great was a supremely talented battle tactician. Yet, his often convoluted strategies were used only to mask a simple endgame. He deployed his significantly smaller army in a way that would allow him and his best cavalry to…
We now live in a world of constant information overload. Content creators are sharing millions and millions of articles, podcasts, social media posts, and videos every single month. This, in turn, changes the dynamic of how we create content, how we…
It’s kind of frustrating, isn’t it? Having to scroll for a minute and a half through hundreds of comments on some posts just so you can share your opinion. It’s even more frustrating when your own posts aren’t getting many…
In March 1963, American mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz published a paper in which he established the basis of chaos theory. He argued that a tiny change in the initial conditions of a weather model can create a significantly different…
Exactly three years ago, as I was walking home from the gym, I noticed I was getting a lot of likes and comments on one of the posts I had published on The Art of Blogging. I was also gaining a…
The modern reader is complicated — and fascinating. They don’t merely want you to provide them value; they want you to actively and genuinely pursue building a relationship with them. They want to be engaged with, not persuaded. They want…
Developed by Sir John Whitmore in the 1980s, the GROW model has been essential to countless business coaches around the world, and today we’re going to use it as a framework for blogging success.
As the cliché goes, if you want better answers, you should ask better questions. The right questions at the right time can help you become aware of your mistakes, adjust your strategy, and begin your journey towards the blogging stratosphere.…
