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 comments. Sometimes it’s a comment or two. Sometimes none. Occasionally, it seems Lady Luck smiles […]
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Quality or quantity? Which one is better? A debate as old as blogging itself. As old as content creation itself. We admire the “prolific” individual, yet we also stress the idea that quality is of the essence. But the tricky thing is that it takes a long time to create quality content. When you’re just starting out and don’t […]
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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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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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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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Once upon a time, perhaps on a dark and stormy night, Seth Godin launched his blog. Right then and there, or maybe a bit later, blogs exploded in popularity. It was the most violent event since the Big Bang. And Seth Godin kept punching the keys, publishing a new article every day, writing books on […]
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Over 2,000 years ago, the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes reportedly proclaimed “Eureka! Eureka!” after he had stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose, whereupon he understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged in the bath. Eureka […]
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Let’s play a game of the imagination. I want you to imagine into existence what your favorite TV show would be like. Imagine the story, the actors, everything. Now, imagine that they stream a new episode every Monday at 7 pm. They do so, without fail, week after week. You can’t wait for Monday to […]
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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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