If you’re really serious about improving your blogging skills, try what I just did: publish a post every day for one month. Monday through Friday is fine.
How to Improve Your Blogging Quickly and Drastically
October 29, 2010 By 3 Comments
Which Blogging Business Model is Right For You?
October 28, 2010 By 4 Comments
Today we look at two leading affiliate bloggers in the Internet Marketing space, Shoemoney and John Chow. Both bloggers publish seven days a week in the same niche. How do their blogs power their businesses?
John Chow: The Blog is the Business
John Chow’s blog is the home base of his business. This means his content is written for the purpose of attracting a high readership, which he hopes to convert to paying customers. The more traffic John gets, the more leverage he has over pricing his services like site reviews, banner ad space and sponsored tweets. The last time I checked, John charges $500 for a site review, between $250-1,000 for an ad and $117.65 for a sponsored tweet. Not too shabby. [Read more...]Is Facebook Trying to Become a Content Network?
June 29, 2010 By 1 Comment
Are you also seeing this message on your Facebook account?:
Apply to be a beta tester and get the first look at upcoming Facebook products.
After clicking through, you’re presented with a page titled “Help us build the future of Facebook.” There’s some description about the “launch of a brand new product to the world” and how you can apply to be a beta tester.
Normally I’d ignore something like this, but what Facebook is proposing is too fascinating to pass up: a chance for my writing to be seen by “tens of millions of people — including job recruiters” as well as a visit to the Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto (where my awesome sister Blair lives).
Too good to be true? How about an attempt to exploit masses of struggling, web-savvy writers? Hmmm… [Read more...]
Why We Should Blog Often
June 28, 2010 By 5 Comments
It doesn’t take much to see how shamefully little I’ve been posting here, and I want to address this because I feel many of us suffer from the same blog starvation-atrophy affliction.
Here’s the problem: we still think we’re in college English class. Yes, that one: dialectic thesis statements, multiple drafts, red ink editing, rewriting and other rigors of academic perfection.
I’m now convinced there’s no such thing as a perfect blog post. We are not scholars pursuing an ‘A,’ but rather friends sharing interesting and relevant ideas.
Blogging is simply written conversation with value—stuff people enjoy reading by choice. [Read more...] Make Money Online by John Chow Book Review
May 31, 2010 By 6 Comments
John Chow is one of the very few people I have high respect for in the make money online niche. So it should come as no surprise that I’m here to offer you Wordful’s official review of his new book Make Money Online: Roadmap of a dot com mogul (affiliate link).
Quite fittingly, I read the book while on a long plane trip from Hawaii to China (where John Chow is from) seated next to The Man—my boss. Little did he know that while he was snoring next to me, I was plotting my escape from my job by reading John’s book!