Earlier in the week we looked at the importance of ‘niches’ when it comes to building profitable blogs. Today I want to extend the topic and gives the process that I tend to use when working out if I want to start a new blog in a particular niche. I hope you find it helpful.
Many [...]

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How to Blog: How to Choose a Blog Niche [6 Tips]

guest post by Kelly Diels
warning: there are lessons and even actionable advice in here, but it is buried inside a story. I write stories because I love you and don’t want to bore you and because if you laugh then chances are that you’ll remember the educational bit, too. There’s actual research that this works – [...]

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Blog Security: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo Scares Me Into Taking It Seriously.

While I get many questions from bloggers asking for advice on ‘how to blog‘ perhaps one of the biggest questions a new blogger needs to ask themselves before they move on to the HOW to blog question is ‘WHAT will I blog about?’
There is no real right or wrong answer to this question as blogs [...]

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How to Blog: Choose a Niche for Your Blog [Why Niches are Important]

A guest post by Dustin Riechmann of Engaged Marriage.
My life is pretty typical for a 30-year old family man these days. I do my best to maintain a hectic schedule and the demands that come with balancing a wife, kids, a full-time career, a mortgage, church, community service, tee ball practice, my daughter’s [...]

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7 Tips to Keep Your Family On-Board for Your Blogging Journey

ChatRoulette (warning: this is often NSFW) is a site that has caused a lot of buzz over the last week or so.
It’s a webcam site where you login to chat with complete strangers – you are randomly matched with a stranger and you both have the opportunity to find a new person to chat with [...]

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Lessons for Bloggers from ChatRoulette

A Guest Post by Charlie Gilkey from Productive Flourishing.
No matter how big their blog is, every blogger loves and wants comments. When you’re just starting out, there are few bigger thrills than writing something and having people comment and give you feedback about what you’ve written. Veteran bloggers love comments and also know that the [...]

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8 Reasons You Might Not Be Getting Many Comments

“What should a blogger do in their first week of blogging to get their blog on the right track?”
I’ve been asked to write on this topic for a while now and while there is no one way to launch a blog I thought I’d jot down a few starting points over the coming weeks.
By no [...]

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What to Do in Your First Week of Blogging

Guest post by Ainslie Hunter from Study Skills Mentor and EduWebMedia.
I found my dream job…. and I mean dream job. A blogger / editor job for an experienced teacher. It was there in black and white on the Problogger Job Boards. Sure it was December 21, but I had finished my Christmas Shopping so I [...]

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How a $50 packet of Tim Tams could get you a Blogger Job

Guest post by Ainslie Hunter from Study Skills Mentor and EduWebMedia.
I found my dream job…. and I mean dream job. A blogger / editor job for an experienced teacher. It was there in black and white on the Problogger Job Boards. Sure it was December 21, but I had finished my Christmas Shopping so I [...]

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How a $50 packet of Tim Tams could get you a Blogger Job

One of the things that first attracted me to blogging was the creative genius that I saw at work in many of the blogs going around at that time.
There was an ‘anything goes’ type attitude among bloggers who were pushing the boundaries of what could be done on a blog. Of course I look back [...]

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Be a Playful Blogger