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A Focused Blog Is A Happy Blog

Thursday, September 4th, 2008

How focused is your blog? Would a regular reader be able to reasonable guess what your next post might be about without seeing the post title? Are you giving your readers something to expect and anticipate to bring them back tomorrow and next week?
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Walking A Path Toward Heightened Creativity

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008

My last post about creativity and freeing inhibitions generated some interesting comments and I was intrigued by how we all find different paths into a creative mindset. Is it possible to lead ourselves down that path more often? And is it possible to help direct that path to lead us to an environment more conducive to creativity?
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Spontaneous Blogging From Within The Factory

Friday, July 11th, 2008

The object is set before the mind, either in reality, as in sketching (before a landscape or teacup or old face) or is set in the memory wherein it becomes the sketching from memory of a definite image-object.
—Jack Kerouac

The quote above is from the Essentials of Spontaneous Prose by Jack Kerouac. It’s a quick and interesting read and I encourage you to take a look.
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Efficient Writing Through Assembly Line Blogging

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

“I hate writing, but I love having written.”
—Dorothy Parker

Are any of the following familiar?

  • You sit down to write, but can’t think of anything to write about
  • You have plenty of blogging ideas, but the words to express the ideas won’t flow
  • You start to write a post, but scrap it because you don’t think it’s good enough
  • You let other things distract you while writing which keeps you from finishing

They’re all familiar to me. What do you do when blogging becomes difficult? What do you do to get the creative juices flowing again?
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How To Improve The ROI Of Your Guest Posts

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

How do you decide what topic to write about when guest posting for another blog? What tone should you take in your writing? How can you get the most ROI from your guest posting opportunity?
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Your Content On Another Blog May Be The Key To Your Success

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

What convinced you to make your last online purchase? Why do you read a particular blogger? You might have purchased or subscribed because of something you read on the site in question. You might also have purchased or subscribed because of something you read away from the site in the question.

Sometimes what you say away from your site is the key to success on your site.
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Grow Your Blog By Giving Away Your Content

Friday, May 23rd, 2008

What should you do with your best content? The normal reaction would be to post it to your site, but is it possible that giving away your best content can be more effective? The answer depends on your business strategy and goals as well as your current situation, but sometimes giving away great content can be more valuable than keeping it for yourself.
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Picture Frames, Bank Accounts, and Your Blog

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

What do you do when it’s your scheduled day to blog and the writing won’t come? Do the tumbleweeds reign when you’re low on blogging ideas? How about when you have a busy week ahead of you, but you still want to post? You might do like I recently did and take a week or so off. You wouldn’t have to though, if you developed a blogging bank account.
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Do You Have A Blogging Mentor?

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Mentor: A wise and trusted counselor or teacher

Where do you go to learn how to blog better? Who do you turn to when you have a question about improving your blog? Is there someone out there who is helping direct your growth and serving as a role model? Do you have a blogging mentor?
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TheVanBlog Wins A SEMMY

Monday, February 4th, 2008
2008 SEMMY winner

I want to thank everyone who voted and helped my post Branding For Small Business And Bloggers win the SEMMY in the small business category. As I mentioned when the post was first nominated it was an honor to be included, but let’s face it, winning is better and thank you all for helping make that happen.
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