I’ve been lucky enough to be a full-time blogger for the past nine 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 an ultra-competitive environment, which […]
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Starting a blog today is synonymous with starting, growing, and reaching out to an email list of potential fans, but when I started my first blog in 2012 I did not think it was that important. After all… in the age of social media and apps and clever marketing techniques, email felt archaic. Big mistake. […]
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With the average cost-per-click ranging from $0.45 to as high as $4, promoting your content on social media and running ads to get more views and attract more readers is becoming an investment in and of itself. Factor in the plethora of options to tweak, and the science behind running a successful ad campaign on […]
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I have a confession to make. For most of my nine year career as a full-time blogger, I’ve been… well… kind of cheap. I didn’t want to invest more than the $15/year on a custom domain. The result? Spending eight hours a day growing my blog the old way: by commenting and engaging with as […]
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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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Over the past nine years I’ve written well over three thousand articles, on topics ranging from art, blogging, creativity, personal development, motivation, books, inspiration, social media, and so much more. I wrote about life and death and all that happens in between. And even though I’ve always had this terrible itch to approach writing an […]
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Sharing your articles on social media. The process. Copy-paste links, add images, write captions… This is the kind of process that: Takes an awful lot of time Can become rather boring But… what if I were to tell you that it’s not enough to just share your article once on each social media platform you […]
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Contrary to popular belief, a blogger’s job is not done the moment they click the publish button. In fact, it’s not even after they share their latest article across all their social media platforms, or after they’ve created a YouTube video based on the article, or even after they’ve recorded a podcast episode in which […]
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Figuring out what to blog about is one of the most difficult parts of starting a blog – it seems almost impossible to stick to a few topics. Also, how do you stand out anymore? Whatever topic you choose to blog about, there are at least a thousand or so blogs that are already sharing […]
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There’s a story about Michelangelo working on the Sistine Chapel that’s fascinated me for years. One day, a friend of the Italian artist was watching him meticulously work on a small, hidden corner of the chapel’s ceiling. Surprised by Michelangelo’s persistence to make that obscure corner as perfect as possible, this friend asked the artist […]
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