Sometimes I like to pretend I’m a photographer. Mostly with other people’s cameras. And the results are oftentimes… not as bad as you’d expect. I do not research the subject, I do not take classes, I do not read about photography, I do not actively aim to become better. Yet, somehow, I am becoming better […]
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Be honest. You often dream of writing an epic blog post, the kind that gets shared thousands of times, liked, tweeted, and pinned, commented on by hundreds of other bloggers… in other words, you wish to write the type of blog post that goes viral. Unfortunately, you have yet to manage writing such an article. […]
Read moreMany bloggers come to a point in their blogging journey when they feel they’ve written all there was to be written about a certain topic. What are you going to do then? If you’ve run out of new things to say, how do you keep producing content? Well…
Read moreSelf-awareness is the closest thing to a super power that a blogger can have. This means understanding the feedback (or lack of it.) Your statistics are not just to give you an ego boost (or to make you want to give up blogging forever). Most of us look at our stats more than we probably […]
Read moreFor those of you who don’t have the time to read through this blog post: blogging is a conversation. You blog as often as it takes for it to still be a conversation. Okay, now let me explain.
Read moreLet’s be honest for a moment. There’s no substitute for hard work, dedication, time, energy, and passion, and those of you who want a shortcut will be disappointed by this guide. Of course, there are some things that you must do in order to be successful as a blogger. So, yeah, let’s get down to […]
Read moreLet’s face it: most people can’t write their way out of a paper bag. Further, most bloggers are boring, most journalists are so heavily edited that any personality they’ve added to a story has long since been weaned out by the editorial process. I want to let you in on a secret, though: it’s not […]
Read moreSome bloggers suffer from what I like to call verbal narcissism. Only it’s in writing. Anyway… To avoid this awful fate, you probably try to keep your posts short, sometimes writing series of blog posts. After all, you don’t want to scare away readers by dumping too much information on them all at once, right? […]
Read moreDo you want to be a successful blogger? Do ideas for posts randomly pop into your head whenever, wherever? Do you think about ways to improve your blog? How to write more? Better? Faster? Do you study what the most successful bloggers have done to get to where they are right now? You are not […]
Read moreEver since blogging became mainstream people have been debating about a blog post’s perfect length. A lot of bloggers may read one or two articles about this, and try to follow the rules – never revisiting the issue for as long as they blog. This can be a mistake. For a definitive answer, the following […]
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