Warning: I’m gonna get a little “sneaky” in this post. I don’t subscribe to the notion that it’s not enough for me to succeed, my “enemies” must also fail. And I do believe in showing mutual respect and taking the high road when dealing with people. But I’m also playing to win, to dominate the…
Category Archives: Blog Content
How to Give Your Blog A Conversational Tone
This is a guest post by Sam Peters. Reading most of the blogging advice out there would suggest that a successful blog has little to do with the actual quality of its content. Success, instead, would appear to be determined by the blog’s use of SEO tactics, social media integration, WordPress templates, and affiliate marketing….
How to Record Video and Manage Media Collections for Your Screencast
So far, we’ve covered planning your screencast and scripting & recording audio for your screencast. In this part of the series, we will cover how to create the visual portion of your screencast and get it ready for editing. Our goal here is to create pro-quality screencast videos that are head and shoulders above what most…
Series: How to Create Professional-Quality Screencast Videos, Intro
Video rules. There’s no denying that. Videos show up prominently in search results and YouTube is the second largest search after Google itself. It has been proven that video advertising online is more effective than other ad media. I don’t believe that it’s a stretch to extend that dominance to content marketing and blogging. There…
Why “Know, Like and Trust” Could be Killing Your Blog
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This is a guest post by Tommy Walker. Why do you blog? No, really. Have you asked yourself lately? You want to use your blog to get people to know, like, and trust you. To build rapport and ultimately sell more stuff. But, you’re creating content on a regular basis, and your sales don’t budge….
How to Find Your Voice When You Blog
Is your writing voice distinct? Would we know it’s you even if we didn’t see your name on it, based just on how it sounds? In this post I’m going to share with you everything I know about developing and using your writing voice. A million blogs out there will give you tips on all…
Plan Your New Website Content Strategy Using The Rule of Fives
This is a guest post by Matt Hooper. Every successful website needs to have a plan and, as we all know, a plan comes long before any action ever takes place. This is why I always find it odd when someone comes to me saying they want a website but they don’t know what to…
17 Ways to Turn Your Blog Readers into Loyal Fans
This is a guest post by Tea Silvestre. Sure. You read Remarkablogger and all the best blogs about blogging. Your content sparkles. Your design is flawless. You’ve optimized for SEO and ticked off the long list of best practices. You’ve fine-tuned every aspect of your site. It’s all humming along quite nicely, thank you very…
Create an About Page for Your Blog that’s a Secret Freelance Sales Weapon
When you do the same thing everyone else is doing, you can hardly expect to get better results than everyone else, can you? What’s the “autopilot” way of creating an About page? It’s biographical and you talk about yourself, maybe include a picture and… That’s it. Pretty lame, and it does nothing to get you leads….
Why I Don’t Give a Shite if You’re Offended
This is a guest post by Jennifer Bones. Writing great headlines can be challenging. But today, creating catchy titles is the cornerstone of any blog’s success. The worst mistake you can make is to wanker-out when writing your headlines. Let me explain. Recently I published a post entitled Forgiving Your Child’s Killer. It got a…
The 13 Business Blogging Master Post Templates You Can Use, Part 13 – Inspirational
People love to be inspired. The proof is in how much inspirational stories and videos are shared online through social media. Content which is inspirational has a longer shelf life than the funny viral hit of the month. Its traffic doesn’t die off as quickly as content which is funny or shocking or merely useful….
The 13 Business Blogging Master Post Templates You Can Use, Part 12 – Question and Answer
Question & Answer posts are a fantastic post type for two reasons: people love to get answers to their questions and these kind of posts are great for SEO. These two reasons are related, but the first reason also makes your posts more share-worthy. Q&A posts show that you’re listening to your customers and responding…
The 13 Business Blogging Master Post Templates You Can Use, Part 11 – Interviews
As with review blog posts, interviews are popular enough themselves that you’ll find sites dedicated entirely to them. Certainly you could interview people yourself for your own blog. But how do you do an interview? Should you record it and provide media? Should you have it transcribed? How do you know what questions to ask?…
The 13 Business Blogging Master Post Templates You Can Use, Part 10 – Reviews
Review posts are so popular there are blogs dedicated just to reviews of a particular type. You got your movie review blogs, your ramen review blogs, your ebook review blogs, and many more. However, as a business owner with a product or service to sell, you may well wonder: what you could possibly review? More…
The 13 Business Blogging Master Post Templates You Can Use, Part 9 – Resource Posts
If you want your blog traffic to go all explody, a resource post is the way to go. Sites such as Mashable, Make Use Of and Smashing Mag have skyrocketed their traffic through a constant stream of robust resource posts. There are two kinds of resource posts: reports and links. Report Posts A report post…
The 13 Business Blogging Master Post Templates You Can Use, Part 8 – Tips & Tricks
The Tips & Tricks post is a classic blogging staple. By providing tips, tricks, shortcuts and hacks, we provide “the good stuff” to our potential clients and at the same time impress them with our knowledge and authority. This type of post is different from a how-to post in that you’re not instructing or teaching…
The 7 Reasons Why I Deleted Your Comment
There are bloggers who say they never delete comments. I’m not one of them. If I didn’t delete some comments, my posts would appear to have a higher comment count, which in a superficial way carries a modicum of social proof. You might be surprised at the number of comments I delete and why. I…
The Ultimate “What Should I Blog About” Post
One of the most stressful problems faced by new bloggers is what the hell they should blog about. And that’s understandable, because if you don’t know the answer to that question, it means you haven’t thought things through quite enough in your business. In other words, it’s not a blogging problem, it’s a business problem….
How Process Stories Beat the Blog Content Monster
This is a guest post by Chris Johnson. If you’re like 98% of the world, your not in the media business. You might be an attorney, or a physician, or something else–for this article, we’ll say “widget maker.” But you’re primary function is serving people, not making content. We know that media is important. We must…
What Good Content Really Is (Once and For All)
Telling people to create good content sounds great, but it’s an empty statement. It’s a delivery truck with no payload. It contains no nutritional value. What does it mean to create good content? Define good content. No, really, go ahead, I’ll wait. Tell me what good content really is. (Sound of crickets chirping…) Yeah, thought…
Three Simple Steps to Quality Content
This is a guest post by the Fit Jerk. In the world of online content creation, the one sentence that’s been repeated ad nauseam is “content is king”. And you know what? This used to be true when there were only a few major players in the game… which meant you had a limited choice….
Five Reasons Why Mind Mapping Rules
Mind mapping is a technique for brainstorming in an organized but nonlinear way that lets you see how ideas relate to each other. You can do it with a piece of paper and a pencil, a whiteboard and a marker, or with software on your computer or the web. At its simplest, you write down…
A Case Study in Mass Blogger Collaboration
This is a guest post by The Investor. More than plaudits, more than authority, and more than generating an income if they’ve got any sense, any blogger first wants to be read. The challenge of finding readers has changed over the years. In the early days of blogging, Internet users were unfamiliar with blogs, and…
33 Thoughts on Creating Killer Content
Killer content: everybody tells you to create it, nobody seems to be able to tell you how. That’s because even the people who are saying it don’t know. Try writing from your gut instead of your brain. Don’t edit your feelings out of your writing. Tell personal stories that have a lesson to teach. Write…
Never Face Writers Block Again (and have Fresh Ideas Every Day)
This is a guest post from Ankesh Kothari. Writers block is a common problem bloggers face. Getting new ideas everyday is not easy. Sure you can keep an “idea journal” to save half baked post ideas and develop these ideas to stay ahead of your publishing schedule. But after a certain point, jotting down fresh…
Three Obvious Sources of Great Blog Posts You Haven’t Thought Of
If you can’t see the video in your email or reader, watch it on the blog. There are three obvious places to get great content for your blog. See if you can guess what they are before you watch the video!
Blog Writing Series: Simple doesn’t mean Stupid, or, How to Write So Anyone Can Understand You
This is the fifth and final post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. Keep…
Blog Writing Series: Separate Fact from Fiction on Your Blog
This is the fourth post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin.
Blog Writing Series: Don’t Get Mad, Get Persuasive
This is the third post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. Write to Change…
Blog Writing Series: Quit Qualifying Your Words and Just Say it Already
This is the second post in a series on blog writing. These posts are based on ideas from a great little book called The Elements of Business Writing, by Gary Blake & Robert Bly. I’ve taken some of these ideas about business writing and adapted them for blogging with my own spin. Avoid Hedging Words…
