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Tag: Writing
7 Things I Learned from Publishing a Book
Last year Nick Scheidies and I published a book through a small publisher titled, What it Takes to Make More Money than Your Parents. As a writer, I’m naturally curious about the publishing industry. Since we published that first book, I’ve talked with three other publishers…
How To Run a Blog With Only 12 Hours a Week
Introduction Writing a blog isn’t as time consuming as you may think and so long as you put in the ground work at the beginning and come up with regular content ideas, the website will do a lot of the work for you. I only spend…
How To Make Your Next Blog Post Suck!
There is a big a difference between a successful blog post and one that sucks. First time bloggers tend to slip up on a few of the essentials to making a blog post great and so today I hope we can make a change to that.…
10 Unique Writing Tips for More Engaging Content
The internet’s saturated with content and if you’re a “web writer” it can be hard to set yourself apart from the competition. Fortunately for you, people don’t care quite as much about the actual facts as they do the delivery. People enjoy great writing. They want…
How to Come up with Killer Blog Post Ideas
I always joke with my friends that blog writers block is the lamest possible type of writer block in the world, but it’s still a problem that a lot of us have. If you set yourself a commitment like I have with ExpertPhotography, where you have…
Ultimate Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Blog Post
It consistently takes me six hours to write a blog post. In a comment last week, Nick Messenger asked me about this figure and how I write. I gave you a little bit of insight into this process in How to Write a Legendary Blog Post,…
20 Tips to Become a Better Online Writer
Are you a good online writer? The answer to that question has never been more important. Between emails, text messages, and blog posts, we’re writing more than ever. If you own your own website, you know that good writing means more search-engine traffic, more social shares, and…
How to Write Killer Blog Post Openings that Keep People From Leaving
Do you care whether anyone reads your blog? Seems like a stupid question. Of course, you care. You wouldn’t be writing if you didn’t – at least, that’s what I presume. But ask yourself, or better yet, ask your readers (if you dare) whether they can tell,…
6 Steps To Writing The Ultimate Top List
This is my absolute top way of driving traffic to my website because everyone loves a list, packed full of useful information, and if someone disagrees (and they will) with what you’ve written, they’ll be sure to tell you and others all about it, driving even more traffic…
Why You’ve Not Yet Become an Authority in Your Niche
This is the perfect post for anyone who’s been blogging for a while and struggling to find the inspiration after exhausting the depths of their knowledge, trying to come up with topics to write about, but still not reached the authority status they’ve been after. Avoid…
How To Produce Engaging Content Your Audience Will Love!
So you want to create more engaging content – Content that will turn first time visitors into regular visitors! You have tried all the tricks in the book to make your content engaging, but it doesn’t work. You even tried all the strategies taught by the…
15 Editing & Proofreading Tips Every Blogger Should Know
Fact is many of us have ended up writing and blogging for a career almost by accident. Now, in the early days of the Internet this did not matter much – indeed it almost was an ‘advantage’ to not be a professional. But times have changed…
How to Write a Legendary Blog Post
As a blogger, you dream of writing that post that shatters the status quo. The post that causes people to stop whatever they’re doing and makes an everlasting impact on everyone who reads it. But the problem is that most bloggers don’t understand the fundamentals of…
Top Content to Write in the New Year
The new year is here now, and with that comes the anual tradition of the new years resolution, which for many of you will have something to do with working hard on your website. We all set ourselves targets for the new year, but we rarely…
Writing Sentences That Sell
Writing sentences that sell is about making MONEY! (Just in case you thought it was about grammar!) Use these writing gems to convert your next email, blog post or website into a money making machine! If you’re not doing these, you’re not in business! Writing Sentences…
10 Blog Writing Tips
1 – Plan Plan Plan! When I first started out blogging, a decent post would take me about 2 – 3 days of work and procrastination, now it takes me only 2-3 hours. The secret to this is planning properly; if you’re having trouble writing a clear…