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Blog Professional and Sticky Blogs Not Helping Bloggers Make Money and Succeed–Because They are Stealing Content
If you think you’re stumbled on posts here on Blog Professional, you have because Sticky Blogs is stealing the content from here. We are in the process of sending Cease and Desist orders. But want the best part? The site makes it look like they are helping us. Rich Benvin has the unmitigated gaul to [...]
Avoid these common grammar errors when you blog
Brian over at Copyblogger has another great post on grammar errors to avoid:
It?s time once again to review those nasty errors that damage our credibility when we write. Not normally a fun task, but absolutely necessary. I promise to keep you amused to diminish the pain (or at least I?ll give it a shot).
As with [...]
Dealing with writer’s-bloggers’ block–try reading, walking, just break the routine
Recently I gave you my tips for getting out of Dutch with a client, great but what if you don’t have a clue what to write about or, worse, have blogger’s block. You know the topic but the words won’t flow. Fellow Victoria blogger Dave Traynor, who is a real professional writer, has [...]
Tips from a Pro Blogger: What to do when you get behind in your posts
As a professional blogger, typically you have an agreement with your client to post x times/week (or the like). Most of the time I’m sure you don’t have a problem keeping up. Post everyday or something to keep things flowing. Awesome. Then something happens. For whatever reason you get behind. [...]
Stumped for something to write about, try one of these 17 tips
One of the toughest things about being a blogger, much less a professional blogger, is finding great topics and content for posts. Personally I follow the fire-hose of RSS feeds (don’t ask how many, I don’t know anymore, but a lot) model. This is where you subscribe to so many feeds that something is bound [...]
How can we help you understand the power of RSS?
One thing I learned during Blog Business Summit is that for most people RSS is over their heads, like Goodyear blimp over their heads. This isn’t their fault, it’s ours. We, as the blogi masters, just haven’t done enough to help people get it (or "grok" it as I like to say).
Anita Campbell has an [...]
Using RSS to gain a competitive edge
WebProNews highlights a growing theme in the business blogging space: leveraging RSS for your competitive intelligence. The discussion uses Monitor110 as an example for the financial industry, but the model works for all businesses.
By receiving RSS feeds on the searches for your company, products, competitors, and industry you can get a jump on the competition. [...]
Pro blogging tip: write descriptive titles
I read a lot of feeds. Maybe not as many as Scoble (he’s in the 800s), but I’m in the 700s. People ask me how I do it. Simple. I skim. I’ve trained myself to skim, and fast. There’s a problem with skimming, you miss stuff. You see I zoom in on titles that grab [...]
Damn the torpedoes … damn technology!
We live in a techno-centric world don’t we? Love it, hate it, curse it. This morning we’re cursing. Scott built, and he and I tested, the online registration form before going live. Registrant got a thank you, he got the info, the person booking the cruise got a copy. Great. We can stop slamming our [...]
Use an editorial calendar to help your blogging
Andy Wibbels, who will be joining us on the Blogonomics cruise, made a couple of XL or OpenOffice templates for tracking your blogging. Granted, most bloggers don’t need this because their blogging is more ad hoc and off the cuff, but pro bloggers … that’s a horse of a different colour. A good blogging/editorial calendar [...]
