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Where Does Blogging Fit Into Your Life?
Blogging often starts as a curiosity or minor interest. You write a few posts, get a few visitors and a subscriber or two. You start reading other blogs (if you’ve not been doing this already) and adding more and more to your RSS reader. After a couple weeks, you find that ideas [...]
Ms. Kinder Was Right: Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling Do Matter
Who’s Ms. Kinder? Ms. Kinder was my eighth grade English teacher. I assume she took the job when there was no more demand for Nazi drill sergeants. But despite Ms. Kinder’s Himmler-like techniques, what she taught us has proven to be valuable to my blogging success. So now, in front of [...]
10 Quick Tips for Naming Your Blog
When starting a new blog, it’s vital that you choose a good name. Take some time to consider the following tips before selecting a name and you will greatly improve the success of your blog.
1. Choose a blog name that can also be used as the domain name. Is this necessary. No, but [...]
5 Best Ways to Spend Your Blogging Time
You’ve started a new blog and still feel the euphoria brought on by a new adventure. There is so much to be done – tweak the design, find advertisers, read ebooks, and brag to the relatives who don’t know a blog from a wiki. You start reading other blogs, drawing pictures of how your [...]
Never Fear, Hosting Hero is Here!
I’ve always sort of fancied myself as a super hero, kinda like Batman or WonderFish. But until recently, I’ve been missing a very important component of my super hero identity….I had no arch nemesis. Well, I have one now!
It seems that GoDaddy has stepped forward to play this very important role in my [...]
New Changes Coming to Blogging Startup
Since the purpose of this blog is to help new bloggers, I figured I’d do a little self examination of my blog to let you inside the design process. To start with, let me say that I broke one of my own blogging rules when starting this blog. I didn’t have the final [...]