Need Help Kicking Your Blog in the Butt?

You had high hopes for your blog when you started it. You imagined readers flocking to see what you had to say. And you imagined it being a huge marketing advantage for your business. So what happened? In reality, it takes more than just creating a blog in order for it to work the way you imagined.

31 Days to Kick Your Blog in the Butt- The e-Book gives you simple and understandable actions to take in order to improve your blog on a day to day basis. When used with the accompanying workbook it makes it even easier to complete each days homework assignment and take action on what you’ve learned.

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The Lazy Woman’s Guide to Posts

Lazy smurf on the beachI have a confession to make: I’m incredibly lazy. If you follow me around the intertubes this may surprise you: I post daily on my website, contribute robustly on three forums, and twitter all the live long day. So how do I do it?

My key to action: no-one’s too lazy to do something fun.

So how do you make writing posts fun?

  • Write on a topic you’re passionate about
  • Review a product you love
  • Interview someone cool
  • Run an experiment
  • Answer a question from a commenter you like
  • Make the abstract into concrete (I once explained how domain names work with hand puppets.)
  • Write something funny
  • State a controversial opinion
  • Solve a problem
  • Be vulnerable – talk about something you did wrong and what you learned
  • Make it into a competition with yourself (What is the fewest words I can use to be very clear and emotive?)
  • Imagine your ideal reader’s reaction
  • Write an imaginary conversation
  • Sit a reward on the desk for when you’ve finished
  • Write about something old in a new way
  • Simplify a complex issue
  • Ask questions
  • Talk about yourself (as an example of something!)
  • Answer a what-if question
  • Swap guest posts with another blogger
  • Use a favourite song, movie, etc as inspiration
  • Play devil’s advocate
  • Put your topic in a different setting: financial advice from the beach!
  • Talk to yourself as you were 5 years ago

Have I got the fun engines turning? Do you have lots of other clever way to have fun? Tell me in the comments!

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Boomers and Social Media – Are you where your potential customers are?

Facebook took over as the leading social network for baby boomers in 2009, growing 106% to nearly 22.6 million users. MySpace saw a 40% decline in boomers during the same period, to 9.7 million, and Twitter visitors increased 714%, to 4.2 million. LinkedIn, a business site that has seen traffic rise during the economic recession, ranked third among boomer networkers at 6.8 million.

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WordPress SEO Secrets

WordPress SEO Secrets

Online success depends on being found in search. Blogs are good for this, but not good enough without help. You can dramatically increase the amount of targeted, ready-to-buy traffic to your blog by implementing the simple tweaks spelled out for you in WordPress SEO Secrets.

War of the Words: The Ethics of Ghost Blogging

When Grant asked a week ago if I would write a post about the pros and cons of legal ghost blogging the prospect seemed a lot simpler than it does today. With heated discussions about the ethics of ghost blogging currently taking place on other blogs right now, the topic now seems heavy with significance.  [...]

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How to stop feeling like a small fish

Guest post from Mariam Cisse:
When I started blogging a few months ago, I was idealizing all the “big fishes” like Grant, Darren, Yaro or John. I wanted to become one of them, too. That’s what probably the most bloggers have in mind, when they start a blog.
By being hypnotized by their success – which was [...]

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Five Ways to Recycle Your Old Blog Content

Some bloggers say the average lifespan of a blog post is 90 days. I disagree. I see the average lifespan of a blog post to be no more then 30 days. Usually, once the post is off the “front page” of your blog and buried in the archives, it stays there. What [...]

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