This is the first 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. There are two…
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Coming Up This Week on Remarkablogger: Blog Writing Series
Blogging is mostly writing. You can do a lot with multimedia on a blog, but words are the primary currency in which we all trade. The first week of November is going to be a series of posts on writing better blog posts. I’ve taught writing, business writing, and writing for the web throughout my…
Seven Steps to More Coherent Blog Posts, More Readers, and More Subscribers
I’m going to share with you an easy method for writing coherent blog posts, which will allow you to stand out from the crowd and attract a readership. Far too many bloggers are writing rambling, incoherent blog posts that go all over the road. A coherent blog post is one that holds together from beginning…
How to Power Up Your Blog by Being Opinionated
This is a guest post by Kelly McCausey Most blogs today with high readership have one thing in common: Opinionated bloggers! It’s one thing to share news and information. It’s another thing entirely to share opinions. News–even important news–can be fairly dull when repeated across hundreds of blogs. Bold, spoken opinions about that news is…
Attract Attention with These 3 Types of Curious Comparisons
We all want our headlines to stand out from the rest, and we all want to communicate our ideas to our readers. One way to accomplish both is to use a "curious comparison." How it works is that you pick something that is (or seems to be) completely unrelated to your message. In fact, the…
SOBCon 08 Reports – Chris Garrett
Your audience will educate you with feedback – positive or negative will teach you. Repeat yourself, reiterate, people learn through repetition. It’s difficult to be brief, do your best, put real thoughts out there, pose questions. A really good question is often better than a good statement Generating Content Keep notes Mind maps are useful…
Can You Write a Blog Post in Five Minutes?
You can write a blog post in five minutes. I’m doing it now. Here’s how you do it: Start with your main point and work backwards from that. Figure out the headline afterwards Don’t worry about being perfect Don’t be complete, but let your readers have room to speak in the comments This is based…
Jazz Blogging – It’s the Notes You Don’t Play
Leave imperfections, tolerate incompleteness. I often remove up to a third of my points so that commentators could make those points. If all that’s left to say in a comment is “nice post” you’ve failed! Last week on Lid‘s guest post (What Public Relations 1.0 Teaches Us About Business Blogging), Deb mentioned in the comments…
What Public Relations 1.0 Teaches Us about Business Blogging
Guest Blogger Week continues here on Remarkablogger, with Lidija aka Lid of BlogWell. Good marketing, regardless of the vehicle that is used to push it out, is all about effective communications. One of my favorite books is Ogilvy on Advertising (1983) by David Ogilvy. In it, he points out that in 1983 he was still…
How Would You Like Your Blog Traffic – Rare or Well Done?
Guest Blogger Week continues Remarkablogger with Patricia Mayo of ComHacker and Nowsourcing. photo by Andrzej Pobiedzinski Traffic strategies are like a good steak. You can set up your blog to sizzle for a couple days and get those rare traffic spikes, or you can let it simmer on low for a while and go for…
Break Out of Blogger’s Block:
Say Something Nice!
One no-fail method for breaking out of blogger’s block is to pick another blog that you really like and say nice things about it. Seriously, that’s it. Simple, really. And it works, every time. Now, you might hate me for this, but I never have any trouble coming up with things to blog about. But…
Are You Using Your Power to Influence Your Readers?
This post is written by Malaysian grad-student Pelf, who blogs about charity, the environment and volunteerism at The Giving Hands. Some people blog because they like to write. Some others blog because they need a place to vent their frustrations. Similarly, some others blog because they want to document the ups and downs of their…
Blog about What You Do, Not What You Think
If you sell products or services and you want people to buy them, don’t offer your opinions. Nobody cares. People care about themselves, and as far as you’re concerned, they care about what you can do for them. Blog about what you do, not what you think. This is one of the simplest and most…
22 Open Source-Related Blog Niche Ideas
Open source is hot and only going to get hotter. Here are 26 ideas for blogs in open source niches. Now with links to relevant info or searches, so now my free blog niche ideas post is more valuable as a resource, instead of just a list of words. If anyone ever starts a blog…
Start Video Blogging for $40
and Less than 2 Hours
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You can start video blogging for less than $40 and in under 2 hours. I explain how, with tips, and with a video, of course!
Conversational Writing: Write The Way You Talk To Liven Up Your Blog
This guest post was written by Mohsin. Mohsin is a blogger who writes tips, tricks, and articles on creating successful blogs over at Blogging Bits. He has also been a webmaster for three years and earns part-time income online. Check him out at Blogging Bits. We live in the age of interaction. Everything we do…
Free Blog Posts!
That’s right, each one is absolutely FREE! Simply *click* to read. THEY COST NOTHING! Are You Concentrating on Your MMAs? Three Steps You can Take Now to Strengthen Your Personal Blogging Brand Process as Content What Motivations Inspire Better Blogging? Four Reasons Why You Should Subscribe to My RSS Feed Build Blog Traffic with Technorati…
Ten Things You will Not See on My Blog
It’s great to plan out and focus on what you want for your blog’s content, but have you thought about what you will not allow on your blog?
Use Mahalo for Better Blog Research
Is the new human-curated search service Mahalo worth using for blog research? I cover the benefits and problems with it using various search examples.
1st Key: Content Production – 7 Keys to Better Blogging in 7 Days
The first key in Michael Martine’s seven keys to better blogging is content production. This article provides a brief overview of points regarding creating killer content for your blog.
Why I don’t care about podcasts
Update: Over the past months I’ve gotten some good use from several different podcasts, so I’ve had a change of heart! So much so, in fact, that I will eventually be podcasting, myself, and will offer audio versions of some of my posts. They take too long to make and listen to. Do you know…
Process as Content
That’s it! (in a eureka sort of way, not in a fed up sort of way) For years, now, I have been saying to all who would listen why artists and craftspeople should blog: so people could know the stories behind what was being crafted. By seeing the process, they as readers become part of…
Creative Destruction: Michael Martine 4.0
Changes in my approach to blogging are indicated visually through a redesign of the blog itself, and this time is no exception. So, what’s the change? I’ll get to that. Let me first speak about what prompted it. As a sort of proof or validation of what I thought I knew about blogging, I created…
Dollmaker Mimi Kirchner: Perfect Example of an Artisan Blog
Simply called Doll, Mimi Kirchner’s blog is one of the best examples I’ve found of an artisan/craftsperson blogging their creative process with tons of pictures. This turns the process of creating each doll into its own story. There are so many advantages to this in so many ways, I get excited even just thinking about…
