Blog Profile / Remarkablogger
| URL : | http://remarkablogger.com/blog/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Internet / Blogging | |
| Posts on Regator: | 357 | |
| Posts / Week: | 1.9 | |
| Archived Since: | October 27, 2009 | |
Blog Post Archive
How to Fight Back Against Feeling Overwhelmed About Blogging
Make a system In order to prevent needing to put out random forest fires, forest agencies engage in controlled burning. Reacting to sudden events can make you feel overwhelmed. Instead of putting out random fires as they pop up, you can engage in controlled burning. So you’re not doing things reactively and scrambling. Even if [...]
Should You Engage in Affiliate Marketing on a Business Blog?
I believe online businesses often benefit from diversifying their revenue streams. In plain English, that means you have more than just one way to make money. Just like an investor will advise you to diversify your investment portfolio in order to reduce risk, I’m suggesting you can do the same thing with an online business. [...]
The 5 Best Books for Business Bloggers
I don’t know about you, but I’m constantly reading. My bookshelf has two kinds of books on it: fantasy and business. In the fantasy department, right now I’m rereading R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series (P.S. – all the links here are affiliate links). On the business side, I’m really digging Srinivas Rao’s new [...]
The Most Important Question to Ask Yourself about Every Blog Post You Write
Let’s not mess around, here. I’ll tell you what the question is, straight away. Why would anyone ever want to read this? That is the most important question you could ask yourself about what you’re writing on your blog. Sometimes, you just have something to say and that’s good enough. But sometimes it’s not. Why [...]
Should You Use Emoticons on Your Blog?
There’s no single right answer to this, by the way. Let’s just get that out of the way immediately. You must decide for yourself if you want to pepper your posts with smiley faces, which are known as “emoticons” (a shortened version of “emotional icon”) or sometimes “emoji.” WordPress is happy to help you out [...]
WordPress Weekend: Tips for Using Categories in WordPress
In this edition of WordPress Weekend we’ll explore managing and using categories in your WordPress blog. If you’re like most people, you probably didn’t think out your categories too well at first. You also may have ended up creating far too many categories. If you’ve ever wanted to change the focus of your blog, dealing [...]
Get More Time for Blogging and Social Media by Improving Your Workflow
It’s not a matter of how much time you have, because we all have exactly the same amount. No, it’s a matter of how you choose to use your time. Let me share several “out-of-the-box” ways you can use your time. Before you know it, you’ll crankin’ out more blog posts (and good ones, at [...]
How to Understand and Manage Blog Comments
Blog comments can be very gratifying but also stressful. You want comments that are thoughtful and (let’s be honest) that make your business look good. Not in a shallow, flattering manner, but because a great discussion makes people feel positive about your brand. Conversely, a negative discussion makes people feel negatively towards your brand and [...]
4 Blogging Myths that Need to Just Die Already
If you’re brand new to something, you feel unsure of yourself. You look to the example of others for what to do. That’s natural. The problem is that you can’t keep doing that if you really want to succeed. Doing what everyone else does has never been a formula for success. Also, a sort of [...]
WordPress Weekend: 3 Resources to Improve your Admin Experience
You spend a lot of time in the WordPress dashboard, managing your online business. Shouldn’t it be a better experience for you? That’s the focus of this WordPress Weekend: resources to improve your administration experience. Three doesn’t seem like a lot, but I guarantee you can spend quite a bit of time making good use out [...]
Bloggers, You Have Permission… Be Ye Not Afraid
I was speaking with one of my Blog Reboot clients earlier today on Skype and when I suggested the changes to be made about his online business, and why, I heard a huge sigh of relief on the other end. “You have no idea how much I’ve been wanting to do that,” he said. The [...]
The Absolutely Foolproof Blog Post Checklist
Ever publish a blog post only to discover some glaring mistake you made, some thing you completely missed? Me neither! Ahem… But for everyone else, I’ve put together this absolutely foolproof blog post checklist. This post might be worth bookmarking or printing out to keep nearby. Grammar & spelling No shit, right? And yet so many [...]
5 Strategies for Retail Blogging
Do you sell physical products in a store and/or online? If so, there are specific blogging strategies that create desirable, relevant content to keep you at the top of your customers’ minds and encourage purchases. These strategies are based on what’s always worked in retail: People love a good deal People love exclusive “VIP” treatment [...]
WordPress Weekend: 5 New Plugins
Hope your weekend is going well. I’ve relocated to North Carolina where the weather is much nicer at the moment than Vermont, so I’m enjoying that. I’ve got a few new(ish) WordPress plugins for ya for this week’s WordPress Weekend post. I haven’t tested any of these. You can try them out on a test blog [...]
What Writing for the Web Really Means
Just a quick note before I get to the post: I had planned on publishing a podcast today, but no matter what I did it just kept sounding terrible. Between this dreadful cold I have and my ambient environment being extremely noisy (and having no control over it), I decided to scrap it. However, after [...]
5 Ways to Create a Memorable Personality for Your Blog
How should you sound in your blog posts? What kind of personality do you want to present? You may first have to discover yourself before you can be yourself. Most people’s “selves” need a bit of sprucing up. And you may think that “being yourself” is akin to being uninhibited or informal. That could lead [...]
The 3 Different Types of Readers on Your Business Blog
If you don’t know who you’re talking to, then how do you know what to say? Even though you already know who your target market is (oh, God, I certainly hope you do), did you know you are still writing for three distinct audiences? What I’d like to do today is explain these three audiences [...]
What to Put on the Home Page of Your Business Blog
One critical mistake I see constantly in business websites is a default WordPress blog setup where the blog is the home page. After you read this article, not only will you not be making that same mistake, you will know what you should put on the home page instead. Why? Because there’s no obvious product or [...]
15 Social Media Marketing Terms Defined so You Don’t Sound Like a Dumbass
My 20 not-so-obvious blogging terms post was a popular one, and it got me thinking of something along similar lines for social media. Social media is even more of a mystery to people than blogging is, so instead of going for the “not-so-obvious” here, I’m going for “dumbass prevention.” Enjoy, and if there’s anything else [...]
WordPress Weekend: The Power of WordPress Shortcodes
Shortcodes are one of the best developments in recent WordPress history. When I started blogging back in the late 90s, they didn’t exist. If you wanted code, you wrote the HTML yourself (uphill, in the snow, both ways… heh). Shortcodes are little bits of code within square brackets you can pop right into the content [...]