What’s it Take to Run a Successful Blog Giveaway?
Sometimes a giveaway is a great way to attract people to your brand. It brings on attention to your company while giving your product more recognition and increasing site traffic. It’s a great idea for bloggers but it takes some strategizing to make it a successful situation. You need to be aware of some rules and etiquette while strategizing to make this a successful marketing campaign. Running a blog giveaway is a great idea, so here is a look at how to do it in order to get what you need out of it and keep your followers happy. You …
Where can you Find Fresh Ideas for Your Blog Posts?
It’s time to work on that blog and you’re fresh out of ideas. Whether you haven’t updated in a few months or even a few years, you’ve probably already discussed all of your industry’s major talking points and everything your business has to offer. What more is there to say? If you haven’t covered frequently asked questions or repeated a topic all over again with a fresh set of eyes, it might be a great place to start. It can be difficult to maintain a blog because people start to run out of ideas and lose their creative abilities after …
Creative Ways to Monetize your WordPress Blog
Most people treat their blog as a source of income but it can be challenging to make money from blogs with so much competition to get noticed. Anyone with an internet connection can create a blog which makes it more challenging to beat others in search rankings and build your following. Earning a living online is challenging but it can be done. Sometimes you have to resort to multiple sources of income to make a living wage from your online businesses and now there are some creative ways to make your blog more profitable. It’s not enough to simply get …
A Quick Guide to Running an Education Blog
Running an educational blog is a different ball game than running a regular blog. You may be thinking about starting one since supplementary education services making big money. The education industry is a huge money maker worth over $19 billion with up to 74 million students attending school up to 12th grade in the US. With education being a huge industry for the young and for working professionals, it seems like an obvious way to blog to a huge market. Plus, education is huge around the globe. You can create an education blog with the proper knowledge on what to …
What Does your Content Need to Go Viral?
Do you struggle to get your content to go viral? It makes you jealous to see big name bloggers get so many “likes” on Facebook and shares on Pinterest while you have a modest-sized following. Bloggers, entrepreneurs, business owners and artists all crave for their content to go viral someday but it’s so rare to make it big online. It may look easy to go viral when you’ve seen videos of kids on YouTube get millions of views or debates over a color of a dress get talked about all over social media for an entire day. While these things …
Which Common Grammar Errors are you Making?
There is nothing worse than putting a blog out there and realizing that you are deterring your audience due to unprofessional grammar errors. You want to put an important message out there or attract an audience to your business and you had no idea your blog is looking sloppy and full of mistakes. Mistakes are bound to happen as we are all human, but it’s noted by audiences when a blogger hardly ever contains them. It says something about the attention to detail when a blogger takes the time to edit, proofread and use punctuation or grammar techniques that you …
Where can you Find Great Free Images for Your Blog?
When you’re creating a blog, you want to make it more enjoyable to look at by providing more than just your words. Adding images or videos is a great way to give your blog some visual stimulation and paint the picture behind the message a little clearer. When deciding to add images to your blog, it can be challenging to know where to find pictures that will work with the message and also won’t affect the reader’s ability to load the page. It’s a great idea to lessen the focus on your words and opinions and add a little more …
Can you Really Blog Effectively with just a Few Hours each Week?
If you had a few hours dedicated each week to a task, do you think it would be successful? The answer is probably yes. Most of us don’t have a few hours a week to dedicate to one specific area of our business or our lives, other than sleeping at night. When work brings an unpredictable schedule of meetings, sales, blogging, bookkeeping and scheduling appointments, there aren’t many hours available to do any consistent tasks each week. It turns out that if you can find a few hours each week to dedicate to blogging though, you’ll have an effective blog …
Breaking out of a Creative Rut
Are you finding yourself in a creative rut these days? You may feel you’ve written everything you’ve got on your blog and there simply isn’t anything new to say right now. Being in a creative field like blogging, painting or art, it’s really common to find yourself with new to offer the world at times. Most professionals are artists in one way or another that sometimes can’t find their passion. Finding your passion and living it still requires a lifetime of work to keep it going. No matter how much you are struggling to get out of a creative rut, …
Writing a Scannable Blog Post for Readers in a Hurry
There’s nothing worse than a super lengthy blog post that a hurried reader just wants to skim through and there’s no easy way to do it. Even if your reader would love to read your long blogs, most people simply don’t have the time to keep up with their favorite bloggers, authors and movies. They only have 24 hours in a day which leaves little room between working, caring for a family and barely getting any uninterrupted time. What bloggers can do is make their content scannable so that if their fans get time on a lunch break or before …
