Welcome to my new series of blog posts on Monetizing Your Blog! Every week, for the next 10-12 weeks, I will publish a blog post on this theme. We’re going to start by looking at the issues that might […]
I‘m on a bit of a blogging roll these days, and I found this great infographic a few weeks back from Melonie Dodaro, and pinned it. I’ve been sharing lots of infographics lately–and why not? They’re visual, they’re smart, and […]
So, I got this email yesterday. It’s not strange. I get these emails all the time, probably at least one a day. There are tons of folks out there who are trying to build up their SEO by back-linking, and […]
This is a blog. Duh. Right? Blogs, are, by their very definition, “web logs,” or like a kind of on-line diary. Usually written in the first person, and often they’re personal. Mine, not so much. I’m one of those weird […]
I just finished teaching the unit on blogging to my three classes at BCIT. I show them how to use WordPress and talk to them about best practices. They have to create a blog and write a blog post as […]
I think it’s fair to say that Pinterest has pretty much taken the Social Media world by storm. Barely two years old, Pinterest boasts 10+ Million users and over 9 Million unique page views per day, according to a post […]
If you are blogging already, or you are considering starting a blog, I’d encourage you to get a blog reader account and start following some blogs. For me, my greatest inspiration for my own blog is other people’s blogs. I’ll […]
Oh, gentle reader, what a long journey we have been on together. On September 27, 2009, I wrote my very first blog post on The Art of the Business. I had been guest-posting on Simon Ogden’s The Next Stage blog […]
I left my WordPress-hosted blog just over a year ago, for the beautifully-designed layout you see before you today (thanks, Janet Baxter!). If you aren’t familiar with WordPress, it’s a web-based blogging engine, and when you get a WordPress blog, […]
I think any blogger will agree with me on this one: finding inspiration to write is certainly the most difficult part of blogging. Having to come up with fresh content all the time is a big challenge. So, I’m going […]