Articles tagged with: how to start a blog


May 12, 20116

Sherlock Holmes’ Approach To Building a Popular Blog

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips
Sherlock Holmes’ Approach To Building a Popular Blog
Blogging is not an exact science, but there's some science to it, and thankfully these days it's easy to track your growth and success.If you start at the very beginning, then you can take a detective's view right from the ground up. Before you even buy your domain name, it pays to do research and planning.The fact is, blogs do fail. Your blog doesn't have to be a failure, but you'll need to keep some pragmatic things in mind. Blogs most often fail for the same reason that many retail businesses fail… someone says to themselves, "You know, I've always wanted to sell fairy hats," and they go and open a store of fairy hats but the business flops because the owner didn't do some research first. It's a fact of real-life business that you can't simply follow your passion blindly if you want to build a business and make some real money. What do you need to make money? Customers. And what do customers want? - That's the thing you've got to find out.So before someone dives in selling fairy hats, first they should find out if anybody actually wants to BUY fairy hats, and if they do, then ...
Feb 7, 20116

CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips
CreAction: A New Formula For Blog Success
Action Trumps Everything is a book about a new principle called CreAction, which is how entrepreneurs balance thought and action in the face of an uncertain future. This principle can be used by anyone, entrepreneur or not, to help guide yourself though the good, the bad, and the unexpected in life.Through extensive research, we have concluded that entrepreneurs function in a different way than people who do not define themselves as entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs tend to act rather than think their way through almost any situation—a formula we call “CreAction.” Of course, this does not imply that they are impulsive and/or irrational; it does, however, emphasize the importance of action versus thought about the next step or move, or how to handle a situation.This principle and way of acting can be applied to blog writing.1. Be timely: Thought and consideration for writing each blog post is necessary, but what is most important is the relevance and timeliness of a blog. Ideally, spend some time researching your next blog topic by looking at what is big in the news that day, what is being searched, and how it can apply to the theme of your blog. Now, write it the same day!2. ...
Feb 1, 201111

How to Handle Negative Comments

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips, Shop Admin Tips
How to Handle Negative Comments
If you run an online community service where others are encouraged to participate with their own thoughts, you're sure to come across negative comments throughout your blog or forum's life. While negative comments may be one of your greatest fears as a social media participant, they are a reality. Furthermore, the way that you deal with negative comments can either make or break your online reputation—and the reputation of your business.Check out the following tips on dealing with negative comments in the online arena: 1. Walk Away Whatever you do, do not respond to negative comments immediately. Chances are that you're fairly upset or offended by the comment or comments, and replying while in an emotional state of mind isn't the best way to deal with negativity on your blog or forum. Instead, give yourself a couple of hours (at the very least) to sit on the negative comment. Then allow yourself to respond. 2. Don't Ignore the Comments While it may be tempting to simply ignore the negative comments, this is not the wisest route. By ignoring and/or deleting negative comments, you may be tempting your unsatisfied readers to make a louder outcry on a more public forum. You want to take on ...
Oct 19, 201036

Blogspiration: Finding New Blog Topics

Categories: Blog Setup
Blogspiration: Finding New Blog Topics
It's easy to find blogs that are, for all intents and purposes, "dead." Plenty of people feel inspired to start using a blogging service or a social networking service (especially Twitter), then blow it in the follow-through; the blog gets a handful of posts, then the user loses interest in their blog, quits writing new content, loses or never establishes a reader base, and thus never gets a chance to make money. With no readers to buy potential products and no readers who might click on advertisements, the more likely way for bloggers to make money, the blog does nothing but occupy space, taking up domain names and usernames that other bloggers might have wanted for their own, more serious projects.As a consequence, it's obviously quite important for bloggers to do two things: they must both provide a substantial amount of fresh posts and a wide variety of posts to make money. If a blog isn't updated on a regular basis, unless the writer is someone extremely important (i.e. someone who probably isn't looking to make their money from the blog, but from something else they do, like perhaps making music or acting or writing things that aren't blog posts), ...
Aug 4, 201016

Tips On How To Become A Better Blogger

Categories: Blog Setup
Tips On How To Become A Better Blogger
This is a follow up article for the How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online series that we have been publishing on this blog to help the newbie’s get started with a blog. This article covers some good practices that you should develop to become a better blogger. 1. Chose The Right Topic For Your Blog There is usually a big debate on which path to go down when choosing the topic of your blog. Some will advice you to find a niche that people spend money in and focus purely on the profitability. Others will say don’t go for the money at first, focus on your passion because things that you personally enjoy and know about will be easy to create good content on and in the process you will make money. I will leave it up to you to decide but I can only suggest that you consider both sides of the story before making up your mind. Some people can remain motivated because of the process, not the topic but that doesn’t work for me. I need to enjoy the topic. 2. Challenge Yourself You might be an expert on the topic that you cover but it ...
Dec 13, 2008138

How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?

Categories: Blog Setup, Blogging Tips, Featured, Make Money
How do I Start a Blog and Make Money Online?
This is a step by step and easy to follow guide that will help you setup your own blog from the start. This guide is not to motivate someone to start blogging. It is best suited for someone who already made the decision to start a blog and need some step by step direction of the whole process. Who Should Use This Guide? This guide is intended for anyone who is looking for an answer to any of the following questions:how do I setup a blog? how to start a blog and maintain it?Now, starting a blog is easy but in order to be able to successfully monetize the blog you need to establish the blog. In this guide, I have also covered the topics that help you establish your blog so you can monetize it.There is a lot of good content to go through, so it is a good idea to bookmark this page so you can come back to it later and go over the content at your own pace. Getting started Blog SetupGetting a good domain name Getting a cheap and reliable web hosting solution Setup WordPress on your Blog Selecting a nice theme for your WordPress BlogThings to know when selecting a themeWhat WordPress ...
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