Make a system In order to prevent needing to put out random forest fires, forest agencies engage in controlled burning. Reacting to sudden events can make you feel overwhelmed. Instead of putting out random fires as they pop up, you can engage in controlled burning. So you’re not doing things reactively and scrambling. Even if… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Blogging
The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself about Every Blog Post You Write
Let’s not mess around, here. I’ll tell you what the question is, straight away. Why would anyone ever want to read this? That is the most important question you could ask yourself about what you’re writing on your blog. Sometimes, you just have something to say and that’s good enough. But sometimes it’s not. Why… Continue Reading
Get More Time for Blogging and Social Media by Improving Your Workflow
It’s not a matter of how much time you have, because we all have exactly the same amount. No, it’s a matter of how you choose to use your time. Let me share several “out-of-the-box” ways you can use your time. Before you know it, you’ll crankin’ out more blog posts (and good ones, at… Continue Reading
4 Blogging Myths that Need to Just Die Already
If you’re brand new to something, you feel unsure of yourself. You look to the example of others for what to do. That’s natural. The problem is that you can’t keep doing that if you really want to succeed. Doing what everyone else does has never been a formula for success. Also, a sort of… Continue Reading
Bloggers, You Have Permission… Be Ye Not Afraid
I was speaking with one of my Blog Reboot clients earlier today on Skype and when I suggested the changes to be made about his online business, and why, I heard a huge sigh of relief on the other end. “You have no idea how much I’ve been wanting to do that,” he said. The… Continue Reading
The Absolutely Foolproof Blog Post Checklist
Ever publish a blog post only to discover some glaring mistake you made, some thing you completely missed? Me neither! Ahem… But for everyone else, I’ve put together this absolutely foolproof blog post checklist. This post might be worth bookmarking or printing out to keep nearby. Grammar & spelling No shit, right? And yet so many… Continue Reading
5 Strategies for Retail Blogging
Do you sell physical products in a store and/or online? If so, there are specific blogging strategies that create desirable, relevant content to keep you at the top of your customers’ minds and encourage purchases. These strategies are based on what’s always worked in retail: People love a good deal People love exclusive “VIP” treatment… Continue Reading
What Writing for the Web Really Means
Just a quick note before I get to the post: I had planned on publishing a podcast today, but no matter what I did it just kept sounding terrible. Between this dreadful cold I have and my ambient environment being extremely noisy (and having no control over it), I decided to scrap it. However, after… Continue Reading
5 Ways to Create a Memorable Personality for Your Blog
How should you sound in your blog posts? What kind of personality do you want to present? You may first have to discover yourself before you can be yourself. Most people’s “selves” need a bit of sprucing up. And you may think that “being yourself” is akin to being uninhibited or informal. That could lead… Continue Reading
The 3 Different Types of Readers on Your Business Blog
If you don’t know who you’re talking to, then how do you know what to say? Even though you already know who your target market is (oh, God, I certainly hope you do), did you know you are still writing for three distinct audiences? What I’d like to do today is explain these three audiences… Continue Reading
What to Put on the Home Page of Your Business Blog
One critical mistake I see constantly in business websites is a default WordPress blog setup where the blog is the home page. After you read this article, not only will you not be making that same mistake, you will know what you should put on the home page instead. Why? Because there’s no obvious product or… Continue Reading
The 7 Steps to Writing Any Blog Post
There are steps to any process, and you’re going to go through them to some degree or other, whether you’re aware of them or not. Knowing the steps makes it easier so you don’t spin your wheels or try to do something at the wrong time. You already are busy enough and have little time… Continue Reading
The Secret to Blogging Inspiration? That’s Easy: Become a Slave
One way I’ve learned to recognize truth in this life is to look for paradox. If there’s a paradox, it’s likely there is also truth to be found. One paradox many of us are familiar with is that of the slave who becomes a ruler because he is indispensable. In your quest to write blog posts… Continue Reading
What to do with your blog when you travel or get sick
Most blogs only have one person working on them. If that’s you, you may have wondered what to do if you get sick or travel for a period of time. How will you write blog posts or respond to comments or social media? What happens if something goes wrong with your blog while you’re busy?… Continue Reading
Writing Blog Posts – Are You a Planner or a Pantser?
There are two kind of writers: planners and pantsers. Planners (or, sometimes, plotters, if you’re talking about fiction) already know everything they’re going to say, at least to some extent. They know in advance what their topics are going to be. They’ve already written at least a few test headlines. They may have even jotted… Continue Reading
Get Killer Blog Post Ideas by Using Trigger Events
What can I blog about that gets leads and sales… without looking like a sleazy salesperson? That is the magic question every business blogger must answer. There is no magic bullet answer, but there are valid approaches that work well for many. I’d like to share one with you I call using “trigger events” to… Continue Reading
Why You Should Experiment with Your Blog
Which is better: follow some guru’s simple formula for success… or strike out on your own path? If you’re brand-new to blogging, it can be so overwhelming that unless you have a blogging coach or a mentor, following someone else’s “best practices” feels like a necessity. I totally understand that. Blogging is a minefield and without… Continue Reading
Bloggers: Stick Your Neck Out and Dare the Blade
This is a guest post by Heather Baker As PR consultants, we are always telling our clients to stick their necks out and be brave enough to state an opinion that might upset someone. But while an executive will often make wild claims about their industry in private, he or she will usually recoil when… Continue Reading
No, Blogging is Not about Speaking Your Mind
I received a rather snippy unsubscribe email the other day: Blogging, apparently, has nothing whatsoever to do with speaking one’s mind and everything to do with spewing “content” on a consistent basis and trick fucking everyone one contacts into buying wares and services to help them become a ‘better blogger.’ My wallet and my patience… Continue Reading
20 Not-so-Obvious Blogging Terms You Need to Know
I received a comment that made me realize it’s been a while since I published a post like this, so I wanted to create one for today’s post. Some of these terms you could consider “obvious” but many of them I would label as “not-so-obvious.” 3rd Party Comment System Instead of using the built-in comments… Continue Reading
How to get your blog mojo back
Do you feel like you lost your blog mojo? Like nothing’s really happening with your blog and you poke at it out of some sense of obligation but really your heart’s not in it? It’s not a good place to be, but it happens. So let’s take a look at why it happens and how… Continue Reading
15 Awesome Free Online Tools for Bloggers
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This is a guest post by Ivica Delic. Software tools, especially online ones, are my passion and I’m always trying to use their best combination for improving my efficiency in many ways… as you all very well know: “The time is money”, particularly nowadays. My criteria for recommending software online tools for bloggers in this… Continue Reading
How to Embed a Google+ Badge on Your WordPress Site
Before I start blathering on, here is the link to the Google+ Developer web page where you can get your Google+ badge code: https://developers.google.com/+/plugins/badge/. You remember Google+, right? That social network that we weren’t sure about (see Should You Use Google+?). That was predicted to flounder and die horribly, yet somehow kept keepin’ on and kept… Continue Reading
What is TrustCloud?
TrustCloud aims to be like a credit rating, only for interpersonal trust. As you can imagine, if such a thing worked (and was, itself, trustworthy) it could be very useful when deciding to hire or sell or buy something. How, exactly, does TrustCloud work? Using their own proprietary algorithms, TrustCloud claims it can measure your… Continue Reading
Is Social Media Sharing Killing Blog Comments?
With the advent of social media and the integration of sharing into practically every page on the web, it’s just so much easier for people to click a like button or a retweet button than it is to comment. Commenting requires multiple clicks, typing… sometimes, even thinking. Le gasp! However, social media sharing is not nearly… Continue Reading
Business Blogging Predictions for 2013
I love predictions. I especially love that crashing sound they make as they fail hard against reality. But we can’t help it, can we? People love to prognosticate. For 2013, my tagline for Remarkablogger is cutting-edge business blogging. I can’t very well be cutting-edge if I can’t make at least a couple-three decent predictions, right? So… Continue Reading
Kicking off 2013 on the New Remarkablogger – New Design, New Content, New Products
I’m very pleased to announce that the new Remarkablogger is here, and it’s been a long time coming. Here’s a quick run-down of what’s here for you: New and more frequent content – I’m filling up my blog editorial calendar with killer post ideas designed to inform and educate the new breed of online entrepreneur… Continue Reading
The Real Reason Nobody is Reading Your Blog
This is a guest post by Tommy Walker. Yeah, I know I said there wouldn’t be any more posts until after the redesign, but of course the redesign takes longer than I wanted. And Tommy is doing this cool thing right NOW, so… enjoy and see you on the new design in a few more… Continue Reading
The Simple 3P Formula for Business Blogging Success
I’m going to share with you the same formula I use with my blog consulting clients. It has helped them start new blogs and online businesses and helped them find direction when they felt lost or ineffective in their blog marketing. The basis of this formula is the reality of how people find a web… Continue Reading
How to Understand and Manage Blog Comments
Blog comments can be very gratifying but also stressful. You want comments that are thoughtful and (let’s be honest) that make your business look good. Not in a shallow, flattering manner, but because a great discussion makes people feel positive about your brand. Conversely, a negative discussion makes people feel negatively towards your brand and… Continue Reading