User Engagement: The Importance of Telling Great Stories
Running a blog is kind of a ballet.
It integrates a lot of different tasks into the creation of one final product. There's some technical knowledge to get the...
How to Start a Blog: Step 1 – Choose A Great Topic
If you're starting a blog, your first job is to choose a great topic.
Maybe you've already picked a topic. Cool. In that case, maybe you're ready to move...
Writing Great Content
We need to talk about content.
How to create blog content and how to write blog content. Those may sound like they're the same thing, but they're not.
How to Start A Blog: Step 3 – Writing Your First Blog Posts
Ladies and gentlemen, pull out your laptops, pencils, fountain pens, or quills and let's get our write on. (if you actually pulled out a quill, send me a picture and I'll post...
The Journey Begins
This blog started as a way to teach people how to raise their voice above the general noise of the crowd. And to do it in a way that generated revenue, so...
How to Start a Blog: Step 5 – Your WordPress Theme & Plugins
Once we have our blog's back end set up with some rockstar hosting, we can do the last technical step before taking our blog live - setting up a great theme and...
Figuring Out What to Write About
Having an Idea vs Having a Voice
When it comes to content creation - not content writing, which is different - I’m a little lucky.
How to Start a Blog: Step 2 – Budgeting. How Much Does it Cost...
In Step 1 of "How to Start a Blog", we learned that it's in our best interest to approach starting a blog like we're starting a business.
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