Most people wonder from time to time if they're doing the right thing with their lives (whatever that means). For me, this is an acute, chronic condition that just never goes away. If I'm not twisting in the nether, I'm not awake. And when I sleep my dreams are often of being lost in a ...
Category Archives: Remarkablogging
The Most Important Question You Need to Stop Asking Yourself
The most important question you need to stop asking yourself is this: what is the real secret to <insert whatever here>? You have this nagging feeling that despite everything you've learned, there's still something just around the corner that will put it all in place for you. Like when that happens, a chorus of angels will ...
Blog Comments are Not a Free Meal, They’re a Potluck
Spammy Keyword Comment Names: STOP IT! Two big huge rip your face off reasons: Nobody is going to visit your site because you used a keyword instead of your name in the comments. For real. You will get no PageRank authority from your spammy keyword anchor text, because 99.99% of blogs nofollow comment & trackback links. All you are accomplishing ...
Random Doses of Reality about Business Blogging
A certain amount of internet literacy is required to blog. If you're not on par with that, you'll struggle. If you find navigating most websites bewildering, it's not them: it's you. When you have that internet literacy, the technical side of blog installation, design, and management can still be quite a challenge. That challenge is nothing compared ...
How Risky Blogging Wins
This is a guest post by Sherice Jacob. Are You Practicing “Safe Blogging”? When your blog is just starting to get attention, it can be all too tempting to stick to “safe” topics. But after awhile, you start to sound just like everybody else and people forget why they visited your blog in the first ...
Blogging Fears and How to Overcome Them – Part 3
In What are You Most Afraid of about Blogging? I asked you to lay bare your fears about blogging. In Blogging Fears and How to Overcome Them – Part 1, I took some of those fears and made them less fearful for you, and the response to that was gratifying. In Part 2, we ...
Blogging Fears and How to Overcome Them – Part 2
In What are You Most Afraid of about Blogging? I asked you to lay bare your fears about blogging. In Blogging Fears and How to Overcome Them - Part 1, I took some of those fears and made them less fearful for you, and the response to that was gratifying. Here in ...
The Difference Between Failure and Success
Do you know what the difference between a business owner and a blogger is? A business owner expects to exchange value for value (usually in the form of money for services, information, or products, and I mean both as buyer and seller). Bloggers, on the other hand, seem to expect to just get everything for ...
Attention Effectiveness and Chris Brogan’s Email Newsletter
In Chris Brogan's latest email newsletter he talks some good stuff about the value of time, trust, and attention. There have been a few times when I replied to these and he has always been kind enough to reply back. But in this one he discusses the value of time and the transactional/opportunity costs ...
11 Blogging Fears and How to Overcome Them for Good – Part 1
In What are You Most Afraid of about Blogging? I asked you guys to spill your guts about what your blogging fears were, and you totally came through. Not everyone would be willing to say what they're afraid of about blogging. But enough of you were brave enough to give me eleven different blogging ...
Avoid These Common Grammar Mistakes When English is Your Second Language
ESL - English as Second Language speakers have an especially difficult time with blogging: if you can't write in perfect conversational American English, you will almost never dominate your niche. I see certain common grammar mistakes being made repeatedly by ESL bloggers. With a simple checklist, ...
Is Your Business Blogging Attracting the Wrong Crowd?
Business blogging is harder than it looks. Business blogging is not like problogging or hobby blogging. With business blogging, your goal is to attract qualified prospects to the blog and through their interactions with you and your content, convert them into leads or paying customers. ...
There Will Be Days When You Don’t Care
There will be days when you don't care about your stupid blog. There will be days when you don't care about lifting a finger to do anything "efficient" or "productive." There will be days when Twitter and Facebook look like a bunch of chattering monkeys and you couldn't care less. There will be days you ...
How to Be Authentic,
Even when You Feel like a Fake
Be authentic: we hear that all the time in relation to blogging, social media, and the new marketing. But what does "authentic" really mean? And what if you don't feel authentic? What if deep down inside you feel like a fake? Are you haunted by the silent ...
Video Tour of My Home Office
Jonathan Fields gave a neat tour of his home office and invited others to do the same and share. So, I thought that sounded like fun. Obviously, this has very little to do with blogging, but it does let you see a little more into my life, so I hope you enjoy it. :)
The Hustling Secrets No One Talks About
This is a guest post from Jade Craven, who has been growing her reach and influence through guest posting, managing to get on several big-name blogs. I asked her if she would like to write a guest post about guest posting on a blog ...
Should You Blog About the Same Topics as Everyone Else in Your Niche?
Yours is not the only blog in your niche, and you have an interesting problem about content: how do you differentiate but still give your readers the basics or show that you know your stuff? ...
Ten Steps to Rock Your Business Blog in 2010
Figure out who your perfect customer is and write every single blog post to her (or him). Figure out what that person's biggest problem is that you solve and blog about that. Figure out what your perfect customer's success dream is and blog about how it's within reach. Blog about your customers' success, not ...
How to Bake a Blog
I'm not exactly the Ace of Cakes. I'm a decent cook, but I'm no baker. Knowing this about myself, but wanting to bake a birthday cake for my step-daughter's birthday, I did what any normal man would do: I bought a cake mix and a can of ...
Unstick a Stuck Business Blog with This One Amazing Tip
Breathe new life into your business blog by focusing on your customer in a very powerful, interesting way that makes him identify with your existing customers and want those benefits for himself!
Ten Things to Rock Your Business in a Tough Economy (and Make Your Competition Cry)
Compete on value, on what makes you different and better. In the world of marketing, this goes by the name positioning. It's critical. You need to discover or create your unique value proposition. Never compete on price. If you do, you will have accidentally found yourself in a race to the bottom, and that's one race you don't want ...
What You’re Really Doing When You’re Blogging (It’s Not What You Think)
When you write a blog post, what are you really doing? You're teaching. When people read what you wrote, they're learning. When you distill the essence of it all, that's what it comes down to: teaching. I'm writing this after conducting a group blog coaching call, which the participants paid for. What, exactly, did they pay for? They paid to ...
How to Quit Your Job, Divorce Your Wife, and be a Successful Blogger at the Same Time
If you think that headline sounds a little insane right now, welcome to my life. It's true. I quit my job yesterday and I'm separating from my wife. Being a successful blogger may not seem like a big deal in the face of all that, but I enjoy it and it's how the ...
Blogging the American Dream: Happy Independence Day
July 4 is the day America celebrates its independence and its establishment as a democratic republic. Paradoxically, the same systems and forces put in place by our Founding Fathers to grant us freedom also allow people to behave in ways which, over time, have systematically constricted our ...
Can Blogging Make You a Better Person?
Can blogging make you a better person? Well, that depends: do you want to be a better person? Think carefully about your answer. Most people would say "Yes" without a moment's hesitation, but their actions in life would belie their words. Most people don't want ...
How to Get Reviews and Feedback on Your Ebook from Big-Name Bloggers
I got a great question from a Mandy Moore in the comments on my post, How to Write an Ebook that Doesn't Suck. It's such a great question, I've written a post to answer it. Here is her comment: This was both useful and timely as I’ve been putting off writing an ebook that many ...
How to Write an Ebook that Doesn’t Suck
Let's face it, most ebooks suck. They have too little information, bad English and worse graphics. They're written because their authors wanted to write them, by which I mean they are ego exercises and do not serve the needs of an audience. If you think of yourself as an ...
The One Thing Missing From Most Online Businesses
The short answer to the question in the headline is: YOU. Get your free "self-discovery" training from Mary Anne Fisher at Internet Profits On Purpose. If you can't see the video in your email or ...
Remarkablogger Reader Survey Results
A big THANK YOU to everyone who helped with the survey. Your feedback is greatly appreciated and it's a wonderful resource I can use to make Remarkablogger a better place to learn about internet marketing and business. I promised I'd share the results with you ...
Self-Promotion 2.0 – Promote Yourself without Looking Self-Promotional
What is self-promotion? Imagine you're at a party, and you meet the guy who only wants to talk about himself. You know, that guy. Everything is about him. I bet that's what you think of when you think about self-promotion: smarmy, selfish tactics that turn people off ...