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Why We Should Blog Often

June 28, 2010 By 5 Comments

school of fishIt 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...]

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10 Lessons in Blogging Learned the Hard Way

September 30, 2009 By 7 Comments

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Tomorrow marks the 1 year anniversary of the Wordful.com blog, and I’d like to share some meaningful lessons on what it means to blog.

Since there was no way I could have known any of this when I started, consider it hard-earned wisdom. This is valuable stuff!

Without further ado:

  1. Blogging is not directly about making money. It’s about intellectual real estate and personal branding. If you want to make money online, you need to first  [Read more...]
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The Easy Way to Simplify Blogging

June 24, 2009 By 1 Comment

waterFor those of you who think blogging is too much work, you’re almost right. Growing a successful blog requires about 30 different disciplines, all of which can take a good 10,000 hours to master. So where to begin?

The most simple trick to blogging efficiency is to prioritize your work. This means you need to identify and concentrate on what matters most with your blog. And for everyone, the answer should always be the same:

Your Content Matters Most

Ask any top blogger or social media guru what the most important aspect of content marketing is and they’ll unanimously tell you it’s your content. I’m here to tell you the same thing: content matters most. [Read more...]

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How to Survive Your First Six Months of Blogging

April 1, 2009 By 11 Comments
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I started blogging exactly six months ago on October 1st, 2008. And let me be honest: the time did not fly by! Those six months were some of the most challenging times I’ve ever endured and I’m glad it’s over. Now that I’m “out of the cave,” I feel more confident than ever about my blogging future. But enough about me…

The reason why the first six months are hard for any serious blogger is because it’s time you spend mostly with yourself as a newbie. You are essentially learning how to articulate your ideas into coherent blog posts, then realizing very few people will read them.

You also have to learn the ropes of blogging. This involves a bunch of reading, information filtering, theme and plug-in searching and staying on top of what other bloggers are saying. If you’re not careful, this stage can kill you!

The early stages of blogging are frustrating and lonely, but very important to your progress. Think of those first six months as a naturally-occurring process–like growing from a newborn to a young adult, with each month representing about three years of growth. You start from crawling and babbling to walking and talking to thinking your own ideas to finally establishing your identity in the world. [Read more...]

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