How to Blog a Book

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

Inspiring You to Build Visibility, Boost Authority and Become an Author Post by Post

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Engage Your Readers with a Call to Action

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 14 Every blog post should have a goal. You should want to accomplish something with that post—to get your readers to think, feel, experience, or consider. If you accomplish that goal, you also should be able to ask you readers to do something. You should be able to provide […]

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Move Your Readers Emotionally to Get Them to Take Action

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 13 It doesn’t matter if you are blogging a novel, a memoir or a nonfiction book, if you want to convince your readers to think or act a certain way, you must hit them in the gut. (Not literally, of course.) If you can make them feel something, you […]

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Drive Traffic to Your Blog with Profile and Q & A Posts

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 7 Print and broadcast media feature successful people so frequently because doing so increases readers and viewers. Most of us love to read about people who have reached the pinnacle of their careers or who have become celebrities because they are good at what they do. We hunger to […]

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Use Lists to Provide Engaging Posts That are Easy to Write and Read

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 6 List posts provide a staple for almost every blogger. In your efforts to produce core content, or even content on a regular basis, these posts are easy to write and to read, and they tend to get shared and commented on more often than some other types of […]

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Create Core Content to Give Your Blog a Strong Internal Fire

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 5 Whether you write a blog or a book you must begin with a core idea. That idea also must be instilled with a sense of purpose that carries both the blog and the book along over time. If the content on your blog and in your book—or in […]

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The Correct Blog Posts Length Builds Readership

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 3 Over and over again I get asked the same question: How long should my blog posts be? Typically, I answer, “Between 300-500 words.” Today, however, I’d like to answer this question in greater detail because blog post length can, indeed, affect your readership. It’s also an important thing […]

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Successful Bloggers Add Value to Readers’ Lives

Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 2 Every time you write a blog post you must ask yourself one question: Does what I am writing add value to my readers’ lives? If the answer is, “Yes,” you are on your way to success as a blogger. If you are blogging a book, the same holds […]

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How Blogging a Book Provides You with a Continuous Flow of Blog Posts

The core principle behind blogging a book lies in having the forethought to plan out your idea in post-sized bits that you write and publish on your blog. Instead of blogging aimlessly and then going back and booking your blog, prior to beginning to write your book you develop a content plan that determines the […]

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