Use Your Words – How To Beat Blogging Fatigue

You’ve started a blog, built up a following, and it’s starting to drive traffic to your ‘buy’ pages. Now, your fans have started to ask if they can guest post on your blog. Wonderful! You can sit back and let other people do all the work while...

Blog Topics For A Month – in 30 Minutes

I just took 30 minutes and came up with 16 blog topics – some of which will become three or four posts as I begin to write – and they are all things that my target readership feels passionate about. That’s 3-4 weeks’ worth of hot blog topics...
The Continuing Importance of Email Marketing

The Continuing Importance of Email Marketing

Email marketing isn’t what the cool Online Marketing kids are talking about these days. With them, it’s all Vine-this and Instagram-that and Social-Media-the-next-thing. And social media can be great for getting the word out about you, your product or your...

Four Steps to Writing Success

Every year I run a creative writing challenge called StoryADay May, in which a bunch of writers sit down every day and write, well, a story a day. It’s a challenge and each year it teaches me something new about writing, creativity and productivity. Over the...

Kindle Blog Statistics

Amazon offers subscriptions to blogs within their Kindle platform. Every day when your readers wake up, your new content is waiting on their Kindle. Since the Kindle home screen’s default setting is to show newest content first, you could be the first thing they...

Publish Your Blog for Kindle

Kindles aren’t just for books. People also subscribe to blogs on their Kindles. It usually costs around $1.99 a month (the price is set by Amazon) and is a great way to offer your content to all those new Kindle owners monetize your blog increase the prestige of...

The Best Investment You’ll Make This Year

Watch me rave about Mike Stelzner and his awesome roster of guests at this year’s Social Media Success Summit 2011. No travel required, all online. Sign up by Thursday, April 14, 2011 (that’s today!) to save 50% on the registration fee. Even if you miss...

No End Of Year Round-Up, Please!

Everyone and his dog is writing an End Of Year Round Up. If you feel like it’s time to start on yours: please, don’t! Apart from the fact that everyone is doing it (so it’s boring), it is a waste of your blogging time. [1. Unless you are writing a...

How MailChimp Gets It Right By Doing Everything Wrong

By rights, I really ought to hate mailing list service MailChimp. Their corporate tone is jokey (their mascot is a talking chimp who has something silly to say every time you log in), they admit it when they make mistakes, they put a ‘loading’ page in...