Prepare Your Blog For the Festive Season: a Step-by-step Guide
Over the past week or so, we ran a short series of interviews with bloggers of different types, to get a feel for how they’re preparing for the festive season. We spoke to the owners of: a product-sales blog a blogger-consultant-speaker a digital publisher a not-for-profit blog. If that series ...more
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Say Goodbye to Bad Habits: Five You Should Ditch in the New Year
I don’t know about you, but it’s around this time of year when I start thinking about all the things that didn’t quite work out over the last 12 months in my blogging efforts. Things I got wrong, things I didn’t try hard enough on, things I know I should ...more
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7 Productivity Tips for Bloggers
If you’ve been listening to recent ProBlogger podcasts, you’ll know the last two episodes featured questions I asked listeners: how are you? (as part of the biggest lesson I’ve learned in blogging in 2015), and what is your why? In today’s episode, I ask a third question: how are you using ...more
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3 Project Management and Organisational Apps that I Use in My Blogging
The last two weeks have been crazy. I’m sure you know the type of weeks I’m talking about. Onn top of my normally full weeks… I impulsively decided to launch a month of daily podcasts (and I crazily decided to do all of the show notes, editing and production myself) ...more
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Want a More Productive Week? Clean Your Darn Desk!
Has anyone seen that phone number for my interview? I know I printed out a good-looking blog layout but I can’t seem to find it. I know I have that blog idea somewhere in this mess; was it written on a napkin? It’s referenced in a newspaper clipping, but which ...more
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What Every Successful Blogger Should Do Before Breakfast
This guest post is by Julie Carr of Plagtracker.com. Most people think that breakfast should be the first thing a person does in the morning, but the savvy minorities know that the time prior to breakfast can be the most productive. This is because it is when a person may ...more
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How to Fail Productively as a Blogger
This guest post is by Bea Kylene Jumarang of Writing Off the Rails. During one of my blocks of free time, I found myself watching a video from Tim Harford, an economist and a writer. In it, he was discussing his three rules for failing productively, and those rules were ...more
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Couples that Blog Together…
This guest post is by Jefferson and Michelle of See Debt Run. Blogging with your significant other can be a very rewarding experience, as long as you communicate openly. My wife and I started personal finance site See Debt Run in January of this year to document our journey out ...more
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The 7 Habits of Highly Ineffective Bloggers
This guest post is by Karol K of YoungPrePro blog. The advice on how to be “the effective guy” is just so common online that it starts to get boring … You know, reading yet another article on how to be a great blogger and all… So why not take ...more
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