Goals. Successful bloggers, like the most successful people in almost every industry, use goals as their roadmap to help them reach their desired destination. If you want to produce a website, blog, or career as a blogger, you need to set goals. Setting goals before the New Year or in January is a great idea. […]
Master the 6 Pillars of High-Performance Blogging
Successful bloggers master of high performance. In particular, they gain control over the six Pillars of High Performance, which gives them heightened and sustained levels of energy, clarity, courage, productivity, and influence. As a result, they have an increased ability to become a high-performing bloggers. What are these six Pillars of High Performance? They are: […]
How to Engage Your Whole Brain When You Blog
Are you right brained or left brained or whole brained? Do you have any idea what that even means? As a blogger and writer, your success does not depend on upon the side of you brain you use most. However, it’s possible that your ability to use both sides of your brain—even at the same […]
How to Enter Blogger’s Paradise
You started a blog, and thought that would send you to blogger’s paradise. You imagined that blogging would quickly help you earn an income, create visibility for yourself and your work, and even attract an agent and a book deal. But now you are in blogger’s hell. Your blog feels like the bane of your […]
7 Benefits of Blogging
Thinking of starting a blog? Some writers hate the task, others love the activity. And till more feel it’s just a necessity of the writing and publishing life. Today, blogger Anja Skrba (@AnjaSkrba) offers her perspective on blogging. New technologies have provided a large number of opportunities for those who want to write and publish. […]
Make Your Blogging Time More Efficient by Batching Posts
I have one word to offer when someone asks me how to manage blogging time efficiently. That word is “batch.” If you aren’t batching your blog post production, you soon will feel burned out and resentful. And you’ll always feel like there’s a blog post hanging over your head waiting to be written and produced…because […]
How to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Your Author Platform
A platform is a necessity whether you write fiction or nonfiction. It provides the foundation for your promotion plan, which you put to use when your book is released. Without a platform, your promotion plan won’t be effective. But how do you know if your author platform has the visibility, reach, authority, or influence in […]
6 Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Start Blogging
Writers write. That’s the adage, right? But sometimes—more often than you care to admit—writers don’t write. You know it’s true. Like me, sometimes when you sit down at your computer to work (which means “write” or “blog”), you don’t do anything close to producing work. You don’t type a word—except in a Facebook update, a […]
6 Tips to Help Writers Cultivate Voice
Do you feel you have a distinct voice as a blogger and writer? If not, you need to develop one…fast! Without a distinct voice, your message disappears among the millions of other voices trying to be heard in the blogosphere. And you want your voice to be heard…and recognized…easily and quickly. Like a vocal coach, […]
Is Your Blog Dead or Dying?
A blog is a living thing…until it’s dead. You determine if your blog lives or dies. The overpopulated blogosphere is home to somewhere around 150 to 170 million blogs. No one has calculated the number recently, and the manner of calculation varies considerably. But what we do know for sure is that more blogs appear […]
