“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 [...]
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What Do You Want People to Say About Your Blog? A Blog Branding Exercise
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 [...]
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This guest post is by Ollin Morales of Courage 2 Create. Nearly a year and a half ago, I was a complete mess. I had lost my job in the recession, my then boyfriend broke up with me, I didn’t get into grad school, and I had to guide a loved one through her very [...]
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Absolutely Everything You Need To Make Your Blog Outstanding
Today I’m excited to give ProBlogger readers advance notice of a special training day in Melbourne for bloggers—the second ever ProBlogger Training day. I’ll share the details below (you can express your interest in attending or sponsoring below, too), but first let me fill you in on the backstory. In July 2010, and very much [...]
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Announcing ProBlogger Melbourne Training Day – Register Your Interest Today
I was recently asked who my blogging competitors were. I struggled to find an answer to that—not because there’s nobody else blogging in my niches, and not because I’m not aware of other bloggers in my niches, but because I don’t really worry much about them. There are three main reasons for that. My main [...]
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