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What Do You Want People to Say About Your Blog? A Blog Branding Exercise

Published on August 24, 2011 By webtools

“A brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.”—Jeff Bezos, Amazon Founder. This quote gets pulled out a lot by bloggers (I’ve used it three times in the last week myself) but I wonder if it might be time to give it a little more intentional pondering as we think [...]

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
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What Do You Want People to Say About Your Blog? A Blog Branding Exercise

Usable Content: a Blogger’s Introduction

Published on July 26, 2011 By webtools

You’ve probably heard of usability. Back in the day, when the web was wild(er) and free(r), usability proponents like Jakob Nielsen encouraged site owners to stop doing things like displaying yellow text on black backgrounds, shun the Blink and Marquee tags, and focus on helping users do what they wanted to do on websites. These [...]

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
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Usable Content: a Blogger’s Introduction

Six Things I Learned in My First Six Months as a Problogger

Published on July 25, 2011 By webtools

This is a Guest Post by John Saddington of TentBlogger. Like many professional bloggers, my journey started years ago, as I dabbled in blogging for myself and for my friends. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but it did—the date doesn’t matter much here. And, to be completely honest, I had really no idea [...]

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
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Six Things I Learned in My First Six Months as a Problogger

When’s the Right Time to Start Selling?

Published on July 24, 2011 By webtools

This guest post is by k out Brandon Yanofsk of B-List Marketing. If you’ve ever asked another blogger, “When’s the right time to start selling on my blog?”, you’ll know you never get a solid answer. Some say as soon as you get one person visiting your blog. Some say never to start selling until [...]

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
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When’s the Right Time to Start Selling?

Blogging for the Inspired Soul

Published on July 23, 2011 By webtools

This guest post is by Lori Meyer of www.soulcomfortofficialsite.com. Ask any top blogger why they blog and they’ll tell you it’s because they’re passionate about what they do. It shows in their work. It shows through the number of blog followers they have. It shows through the multitude of comments they receive on their posts. [...]

Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
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Blogging for the Inspired Soul