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: […]
Does Your Blog Have Goals?
Several times per year I talk about goal setting. As a coach, I think it’s enormously important to set intentions for the year—if you want to succeed. The same goes for your blog. It needs goals if you want your site to become successful. Without a goal, you blog or blog your book with no […]
Start a Movement with a Blog or Book
As you blog your book, you can do something more meaningful than build a foundation of avid fans and readers for your finished product or even land a traditional book deal. You can start a movement. If the reason you want to become an author or a blogger involves a cause, calling, or soul purpose, […]
4 Tips for Finding Viable Blogged-Book Subjects
You want to blog a book…fast. After all, it’s National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMo). But you are making slow progress because you can’t decide upon a book topic. Without a subject, you can’t write. NaBoBloMo only provides the impetus for you to do what you’ve meant to do for a long time. The challenge asks […]
What Do You Want Your Blog and Book to Do?
As the year comes to a close, it’s time to review your successes and failures and to decide how you will move forward in the New Year as a blogger and an author. This is the point when you, like me, must determine if what you have done to date is working, is on purpose […]
Remain Passionate and On Purpose to Achieve Inspired Blogging Results
Blogging Basics for Aspiring Authors: Lesson 25 In the last three months, I’ve provided you with 25 blog posts containing 30 tips to help you improve your blog and your blogging skills, as well as your blogged book. If you’ve tried to implement them all in that amount of time, you might feel overwhelmed and […]
Build a Business Around Your Blogged Book
All my posts during April, National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMO), have helped you blog a book fast—in just 30 days. Blogging a short book fast provides you with something you may not have had before if you take the manuscript you created with your blog posts and actually get it edited and then publish it […]
New Year, New Look, New Goals
I’m proud to unveil How to Blog a Book’s new design! I hope you like it. It’s cleaner, brighter and aligns with the design of the new How to Blog a Book printed book (which is now available for presale). Plus, it takes the blog to a new level. I have written about starting out […]
Why You Need Passion to Succeed at Blogging Your Book
Most bloggers find themselves concerned with search engine optimization (SEO). Anyone writing for or on the Internet knows they want their writing easily found by search engines—and, therefore, by Internet users looking for the information in their blogs. However, Duane Forrester of Microsoft says most bloggers can use basic SEO skills and find some success […]
Are You on a Mission?
I’d just like to mention today that if you are writing a proposal, you want to include a mission statement after your author’s bio. You’ve already worked on that. Remember this post? Not every book on writing a book proposal includes the “Mission Statement” section; in fact, most don’t. It’s a fairly new section. However, […]