Be Inspired By Nothing

We all have days when the words escape us, we feel uninspired, tired or just plain unmotivated to post to our blogs.
On those days, bloggers either don’t publish a post, or they dig through their drafts and quickly do an edit.
Today’s Lesson
Last week I was intrigued by the title of one of Chase March’s posts. [...]

Blogs - The New Electronic Paper Trail

In business and in life, we leave what’s called a paper trail. On the internet, it’s called often referred to as an electronic paper trail.
Most transaction we make, can be followed. Our bank statement shows how much money we have, and where we spent it. Credit/debit card records are similar. Our medical [...]

Links Show Love But Do We Click

It’s called “link love”
Bloggers create a link to another blogger’s post as a reference or to show gratitude.
Some bloggers will spend many hours adding links to posts.
You’ve seen them, “100 links to the best of …..”
I did one of those too, it was titled: “1066 Links, Lessons or Tips For Bloggers”
Today’s lesson
I need [...]

NBOTW Teaches Simplicity

She writes about relaxation and why “Your Clutter Hates You”
She taught me to be less hard on myself.
I have been known to procrastinate, especially when it comes to my least favorite job in the office - filing. I felt I needed to have everything perfect in my office, until I read her post in which [...]

No Comment

Have you ever visited a blog, read the post and all of the comments, but didn’t feel comfortable commenting?
I have.
Blogs can be that way.
The author publishes their post for the whole world to see, and often others leave comments. A conversation develops between the author and their audience.
Today’s Lesson
When I started blogging, most of [...]

When Is Enough Enough

If I had a dollar for every time I (figuratively) banged by head against the wall while learning blogging, I would be rich.
It’s no wonder bloggers get stressed out and aren’t always sure how to grow their blog.
In yesterday’s post we learned how addictive we become to spikes in traffic created by social networking sites.
But [...]

Social Meth - One Taste - You’re Hooked

Remember when you first started blogging? An increase of one in your visitor counts or feed readers was exciting.
Then you discovered Digg, StumbleUpon, and Twitter. By a submission of your site to popular social networks, you saw your blog growing by the hundreds.
Today’s Lesson
I remember those days.
Each new unique visitor made my day. [...]

NBOTW Goes To The Dogs

I’m bending the rules for this New Blog Of the Week (NBOTW). The blog is over four months old.
It’s the subject matter of this blog that brought me to this decision.
She writes in a niche I haven’t seen before. It’s not about productivity, or inspiration, nor is it about business or becoming [...]

Can We Ever Know Too Much About SEO

We all want our blogs found and would love to have a steady stream of traffic.
For bloggers, finding a way to meet this goal, usually tops our list of priorities.
Today’s Lesson
When I started blogging, I often felt like I was talking to myself, or just documenting my thoughts in cyberspace.
I searched “how to drive traffic [...]

What Happened To The Good Ole Days

My childhood was pretty simple.
We lived in the country and walked a lot. As kids we played outside, jumped rope, caught frogs, played hop-scotch, make snow angels, had chores to do, and when we went inside, we were welcomed by the scent of a home cooked meal.
For many years we didn’t have a TV, [...]

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