“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

What Do You Want People to Say About Your Blog? A Blog Branding Exercise
This guest post was written by Neil Matthews of WPDude. Have you noticed a decrease in the number of blog comments you get and an increase in Facebook likes and Twitter tweets about your posts? Are you worried that you are loosing social proof about the validity of your posts to the social media conversation, [...]
Originally at: Blog Tips at ProBlogger

It’s been almost a week now since I left home in Australia to visit Tanzania to see if it was possible to use blogging to give a voice to those who may not have one—more specifically, to people living with disabilities in developing countries. I spoke a little about the “why” of this trip previously, [...]
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Earlier in the week I wrote an email to ProBlogger PLUS subscribers that talked about deepening reader engagement by aiming at the hearts of your readers. In it, I shared an example from FeelGooder of a personal story post that I wrote that got a great reaction from readers. As I wrote that email it [...]
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I saw this post today about an epic battle against plagiarism. it’s not only hilarious, but also captures many of the emotions I feel when I find copyright violations of my content. Do you stay calm? Or do you don battle gear?