Oct 30
Many writers have looked to blogging as a way to instantly create income that will work for them even when they are not at the computer. Blogging as a platform is easy to use and even easier to learn. There are some generally accepted practices to blogging, which have been covered here and on other sites, but overall blogging provides the freedom to communicate your thoughts to the world.
Monetizing your blog is a great first step to ensuring that your thoughts and time have value. Whether you work with affiliate advertising, use Google Adwords, or some other mechanism to make money, it’s important that we feel that our work is valued, and with increased traffic, it’s hard not to make money.
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Oct 28
Writing has always been a long-term passion of mine. As a blogger for just over a year now, I’ve learned that what works in the world of journalism, and standard novel writing, works the same in the blogosphere. That being said, as a blogger, there are a lot of tools writers should understand before delving into the medium.
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Oct 26
I stated in previous posts both here and on
The Daily Slackr, that blogs are extremely versatile and probably the most versatile of the blogging types. Using a free blogging tool like
Wordpress or
Blogger is helpful for those entering into the blogosphere, and provide an easy “in” for even the most basic of newcomers. Still, for those more advanced, blogging can be a tool that is fully customizable to suit the needs of the writer. No matter where you stand on the scale, a blog can become drab and perhaps dull for the reader.
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Oct 24
As a blogger, you have to find the niche in which you feel most comfortable writing. Whether it’s pets, technology, fashion, travel, or other lifestyle ideas, as a writer you will be looked at directly for the relevancy of your writing and how much knowledge you share. Now perhaps you’re just a life blogger, and that’s fine, perhaps you fall outside the realm of this post, but if you plan on writing about something specific, it’s important that you prepare yourself for future interaction with your community.
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Oct 22
For bloggers, nothing says success more than readers, and readers are drawn to bloggers that have valid and relevant information. This relationship can be hard to maintain and sometimes feel like a tug of war on certain days. Still, a blogger that allows themselves to lose the fight will find themselves alone, their message not getting to a single person except for the occasional web surfer that might find their site.
So how do you tackle this? What are some ideas that make viewers want to come to you as the source for information? I hope to answer these questions for you by explaining the tools and techniques of live blogging.
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