Blogging
The Question You MUST Answer To Be Successful As A Blogger
Why do you blog? What’s your offer? Why should I pay ANY attention to you whatsoever?
Do you have an answer for this?
There are a number of differences between hobby blogging and professional blogging. In my view, many of the bloggers trying to make money in this medium are running things like a hobby blogger and expecting money to pop out of it. And that’s not going to happen.
Bloggers, Are You Building Your Assets?
One of the things I constantly preach is the importance of treating your blogging like a business. That is, if you actually want to make a business-level income from it.
That means thinking strategically about what you’re doing and how you’re developing.
In everything that you do, you should be thinking about how it is increasing your leverage and increasing your assets. Increasing your assets results in increased leverage.
So, what do I mean by assets?
A Blogger’s Two Greatest Assets
This is a guest post by Olusegun Adedokun, an entrepreneur from Nigeria.
Blogging has become the order of the day. Every Tom, Dick, and Harry, and their grandmother, wants to own a blog.
Technorati’s blogger segmentation statistics at the last BlogWorld conference showed that just 9% of bloggers are self-employed. Most people are just on the bandwagon, so to speak.
Now, no one has an exact idea of how many blogs are out there, but there are hundreds of millions of blogs online with several million people who claim to blog fulltime! They are, in a way, competing for the same eyeballs as you. This is enough reason for a blogger to protect any assets he or she might have online.
Blog Lessons From Crystal Bowersox, from American Idol
Hey, look at me! I found a way to weave a current society trend into my headline! That’s so CopyBlogger of me. 
Actually, I do have a point, and it has to do with finding your blogging voice.
I’ll admit it: I watch American Idol. Don’t worry, I’ve already turned in my man-card. This season, I happen to really dig Crystal Bowersox. She has a lot of talent, but she is also insanely true to herself and it shows every week.
The judges are constantly recognizing that. She marches to her own drummer and comes up with some unique song arrangements which suit her style. When I watch the show, she is the one who I most look forward to.
Imagine if she were a blogger. I’d be on her list. I’d be a subscriber to her RSS feed. Because I like her style and I believe she does something differently than the other singers (err… bloggers). And it isn’t as if she isn’t in a saturated niche.
What can she teach us about blogging?
Why I Get Jacked Up Before I Post
This is a guest post by Nathan Hangen.
Ernest Hemingway once offered the following advice to writers:
“Write drunk, edit sober.”
It’s probably the best piece of advice I’ve ever received, and it’s served me very well over the past year.
Crazy Tip For Overcoming Writer’s Block
Even with all the time I spend helping bloggers, there is one problem that has always stumped me: writer’s block. I have the ability to pump out posts pretty quickly and it obviously comes in handy for me. However, many others that I work with get completely stumped when it comes to actually writing for [...]
How To Keep Your WordPress Blog From Being Hacked
Has your blog ever been hacked? Have you ever had that horrible, sinking feeling when you go to check out your blog, only to find that it isn’t even there anymore? If you haven’t had it happen yet, there’s a decent chance you will. I have. More than once. And it sucks. One moment your [...]
How I Lost My Life Savings And What It Taught Me About Blogging
This is a guest post from Roman, from How This Website Makes Money. Ten years ago was the height of the stock market boom. Stocks prices went only up. All you had to do was throw money towards Wall Street and a few months later you’re a millionaire. People were getting rich overnight. 14 year [...]
7 Keys to an Extraordinary Blog
This is a guest post by Maren Kate, of Escapingthe9to5.com. There are millions upon millions of websites and blogs in the world, so in the beginning it can seem like there is an overwhelming chasm between your blog and true success. I struggled with the overwhelming nature of the blogosphere for awhile when I began [...]
Why I Use Multiple Landing Pages [Reader Question]
When I relaunched The Twitter Manual on it’s own landing page, I was asked on Twitter why I used a separate landing page. The question posed by Brent (@function_ality) was: Why do you setup different url’s instead of putting these on DavidRisley.com site? I never understood this. He went on to say it dilutes my [...]
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