This guest post is by Jonathan Dunsky of WorldofDiets.com. A lot of bloggers work alone. I started out the same way. I hardly talked about what I was doing and never got into details with the people closest to me. Today, however, I feel that this approach can limit the success of your blog and [...]

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The promise of social media marketing, of course, is that it’s easy to get off the ground. The platforms involve little or no cost, and it doesn’t take nearly as long to get them up and running for your company than most technology solutions. The reality, however, is far different. You need to plan, get approvals and make sure you can find people willing to give up some of their time to make your initiative a success. For corporate blogs, this is particularly true, given the commitment necessary [...]

Read More: Three Ways to Get a Corporate Blog Off the Ground

Long blog post short: please be as descriptive as possible when titling your blog posts. In today's decontextualized world of walls, feeds, RSS, e-mail, diggs, reddits, Stumbles, tweets, and retweets, you need to attract your potential reader based only on the appeal of your title and nothing else, especially if you're new to blogging and [...]

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This guest post is by Kevin Muldoon of WordPress Mods. One of the biggest mistakes new bloggers and webmasters make is to check traffic stats and affiliate reports too often—often enough for it to stop them doing real work on their projects. That being said, it is still important to check stats from time to [...]

Read More: How I Use BuySellAds to Monitor Blog Traffic and Goals

This guest post is by Marcello Arrambide of Wandering Trader. When it comes to blogging, there are different mentalities around both the quantity of traffic and the quality of traffic. At different stages in a website's development, we tend to focus on one or the other, but when we start a new blog, we primarily [...]

Read More: A Blog Traffic Strategy: Quality vs Quantity

This guest post is by Stephanie Hetu of StephanieHetu.com. Most of us international bloggers learned pretty much everything we know in English, just because the community of bloggers is there, huge, active, and available. We don't have to search very far to learn all sorts of little tips and tricks to make our blogs more [...]

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This guest post is by Ollin Morales of Courage 2 Create. Nearly a year and a half ago, I was a complete mess. I had lost my job in the recession, my then boyfriend broke up with me, I didn't get into grad school, and I had to guide a loved one through her very [...]

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This post continues our Misconceptions New Bloggers Have series and looks at one of the most common questions I'm asked about when speaking about blogging—posting frequency. I've lost count of the number of times I've heard prebloggers dismiss the idea of blogging because they don't have the time or discipline to produce daily blog posts. [...]

Read More: You MUST Post Every Day on Your Blog [Misconceptions New Bloggers Have #2]

This guest post is by Ramcel Gatchalian of Meek Watcher. You wake up one day and check your mobile phone for any new email notifications. There are none. Surprised, you quickly turn your laptop on and glanced at your latest blog post comment status. You can't believe it. No comments whatsoever. Zero as in zip, [...]

Read More: How to Silence Readers From Commenting on Your Blog

Now, if you are reading this post. you are probably hoping that I’m about to divulge the “secret sauce” to standing out in the crowded blogging space. Unfortunately, I don’t have that secret sauce or magic formula for getting millions of blog readers with the click of a mouse. If I did, I’d probably be [...]

Read More: 7 Marketing Tips To Grow Your Blog’s Following

I have never done this before on my blog but I am going to be writing a series of blog posts about customer and brand advocacy.  Chapter 9 in my book is all about advocates so much of the series will pull from that content.  Many companies today are starting to shift their marketing dollars and are looking to create formal advocate programs. Their focusing less on reaching out to influencers, and instead, identifying those social customers who may or may not thousands of Twitter followers but lo [...]

Read More: Blog Series: How to Create a Formal Customer Advocacy Program

This guest post is by Tristan of Infographic Academy. If you’ve been blogging for any length of time, the odds are good that you have an inactive blog or two (or *cough* a dozen *cough*) sitting around. Maybe you wrote only a few posts before you realized that your calling in life is not writing [...]

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This guest post is by Russ Henneberry of Tiny Business, Mighty Profits. It's every blogger's dream: to take something you created and generate enough money to take care of your obligations. But time is running out. The time bomb is ticking. Generate sales, or die. With each second that ticks by, the pressure mounts. And [...]

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Tweet Reciprocity is one of the most beautiful aspects of the social web, I'll tell you why and I'll tell you how it has helped me put this little blog on the map. About 3 months ago I wrote a post about all the things I didn't do to promote my blog. The point of [...]

Read More: Reciprocity: How It Works And How It Helped Get My Blog On The Map

This guest post was written by Neil Matthews of WPDude. Have you noticed a decrease in the number of blog comments you get and an increase in Facebook likes and Twitter tweets about your posts? Are you worried that you are loosing social proof about the validity of your posts to the social media conversation, [...]

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This guest post is by Kevin Muldoon of WordPress Mods. Most of you will be aware of the most popular business models for blogs. A large majority of blogs rely on revenue from advertising such as banner ads and paid reviews. Once a blog is very successful, its owners usually branch out and sell physical [...]

Read More: An Interesting Blog Business Model

Do you use images in your blog posts? Most bloggers like to increase their posts'—and blogs'—impact with an image, and while I'm a die-hard textophile, I can see the point. An image is certainly more eye-catching than text. Couple the right image with the right heading, and you're on fire. Until recently, the only image [...]

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This guest post is by Enzo F. Cesario of Brandsplat. “We were halfway to Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.” It certainly wasn’t the line that Rolling Stone expected out of sports and political columnist Hunter S. Thompson. He’d been sent to Vegas to report on a [...]

Read More: Going Gonzo, or How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Blog

Tweet This is a guest post by Hector Cuevas from HectorJCuevas.com Mediocrity is often the result of taking the road of least resistance. You agree?… I’m sure you do. Building successful blogs, strong brands and huge audiences is no walk in the park. This process slaps you in the face with resistance ever step of the way. [...]

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