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10 Reasons Why Blogging is the Magic You Need in Your Life

10 Amazing Benefits of Blogging (and 5 Bogus Claims) According to Wikipedia, and that is the online authority, blogging has been around since just before the turn of the 21st century. In historical terms, that isn’t that long but for technology that’s an eternity. Also, according to most published reports, there are over 150 million […]

Why You Should Be Happy With Your Small Audience

Find Out Why You Need to Rethink What it Means to Have a Small Blog Audience Imagine walking into a fairly large room full of people. Men and women ranging in age, background, and life experience. Let’s say there are 50 people in the room. All sitting there patiently waiting for you. You walk in […]

7 Secret Blog Tools That Your Audience Will Thank You For

You want your blog to run like a well-oiled machine. You want your content delivered in a way that your audience can consume it without having to deal with distractions, 404 re-directs, grammar issues, or a blank white screen while they wait for it to load. Here are 7 secret blog tools that typically remain […]

How to Make Blogging Easier, While Also Providing Value to Your Audience

Making Blogging Easier is Often in Conflict with Providing Real Value to Your Reader…But it Doesn’t Have to Be Let’s face it. As content providers and bloggers, our sole mission is to provide value to our audience and to generally do so by making their life easier. They shouldn’t have to work too hard to […]

The 6 Best Things About Visual Content on Your Blog

Do you sometimes feel like you are a terrible writer? Or, you struggle to put out quality content from time to time? Well, you are in luck. Today’s blogging requires more than just writing. In order to stand out from the noise and provide the best experience for your audience, you need to leverage the […]

How to Jumpstart Your Content Creation…and Make It Last

You probably use a calendar at work to keep track of meetings, assignments, and other project deliverables. You probably keep some sort of a calendar for family events, birthdays, and other personal items. If you are a blogger, you damn sure better be keeping a content creation schedule as well. My Confession Before we proceed, […]