Sooner or later, every blogger thinks about writing an ebook or other information product. For most of them, that's as far as it ever gets. Fear is mostly to blame. Sure, maybe the idea isn't perfect yet, or the amount of work seems overwhelming. But take away fear, and all of the sudden these problems become ...
Category Archives: Creating Content
How to Come Up with 24 Post Ideas in 20 Minutes
There's a trick for writing headlines that's so popular among copywriters, it's easy to make the mistake of thinking that everyone knows it. But then I remember: Not everyone studies copywriting. Not everyone even reads Copyblogger, where I first heard of the idea.
3 Dead Giveaways You're a Hack Writer
I'll be the first to admit it---when it comes to writing, I'm a hack. When I say "hack," I'm talking about the kind who has to fake being a real writer, not the (much worse) kind who steals other people's stuff. Lucky for me---and you, I ...
The Blue Man Group Secret to Blogging
The Blue Man Group has a secret. It allows them to make just as much money as the other top Las Vegas musical acts and comedians, while working way less. While Siegfried and Roy and Celine Dion were working night in and night out, the guys behind the Blue Man Group got to take it ...
The 10 Commandments of Food Photos
Let's face it: Most of us didn't get into blogging because we love taking photos of our food. I, for one, have no idea what most of the buttons on my camera do, much less what an f-stop is. Luckily, it's not all that hard to take a decent food photo. Sure, you could get really ...
Could your recipe posts be considered 'piracy'?
Does this sound like you? You start blogging and post a few favorite recipes. Maybe your smoothie, your oatmeal, your wrap. But pretty soon, those run out, especially if you do most of your cooking from cookbooks. You're cooking tasty, healthy food every night, and ...
The simple tweak that spiked my traffic 30%
It's Sunday morning. I wake up, turn on my computer, and start reading a free PDF I've been meaning to get to, called Authority Rules. A few pages into it, I'm so inspired that I immediately implement one of the concepts ...
Why great blog posts deserve D's in English class
Everything they taught us in school about writing is wrong. Ok, maybe it's not wrong, by any technical measure. But for blogging, it's certainly not right. Pen an essay worthy of an "A" in high school, maybe even in a general-education college English class, ...
Are boring headlines killing your blog?
Image by TimmyGUNZ via Flickr In my last post, I told you how excited I was about the prospects for my blog, No Meat Athlete, now that I've started writing ...
All About the Vlog
Hey Health Blog Helpers - we've got a special treat for you on this last day of 2009: a guest post from Rachel at Shedding it and Getting it on vlogging! (Vlogging, if that term is new to you, would be video blogging.) Rachel did a totally fun and smart vlog about ...
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