Category: Blogging

Alice Elliott

Why You Shouldn’t Consider Using ChatGPT To Write Blog Posts

The rise of Open Source AI has gotten many businesses to rub their hands with glee. Perhaps we can do away with expensive content writers, and focus on using ChatGPT to write blog posts for us instead? I can certainly see how his automation could be valued as an advance in technology. Here is a…

Anna Fox

How to Become a Better Freelance Writer by Managing Your Time Better

One of the most important skills for a freelance writer is COMPLETION. Can you finish what you start? Do you finish your projects? Do you know when to stop analyzing and when to start wrapping up? Or do you get stuck in analysis paralysis and need a bit of nudging, direction, or help to close…

Susan Gilbert

12 Time-Saving Blogging, Newsletter Creation, and SaaS Tools

The following comprises 3 “Business Tips” articles, each of which talks about 4 helpful tools and resources around a specific area of your business. Today, the subjects are: Saving time on your blogging Professional newsletter creation SaaS 4 Time-Saving Blogging Tools 1) Appealing Human Images – JumpStory Readers are drawn to photos that touch their…

Andy Capaloff

How To Have Your Outreach Emails Ignored… And How Not To

Or… How To Piss Off Blog Editors… And How To Make Them Happy Maybe nobody should edit a blog for going on 8 years. The longer a blog is around, the larger the volume of contributor outreach emails they receive. Unfortunately, most of these are clueless efforts. And trust me on this, that wears on…

Jordan Bishop

How To Scale Up Your Content Marketing (As A Solo Blogger)

There was a time when blogs were all about answering people’s questions and writing stories. Nowadays, however, they’re used as sales and growth tools. That’s why so many bloggers are interested in scaling up their blogs to turn them into assets that can generate income for years. But how do you achieve that as a…

Ann Smarty

Why Start Your Small Business Social Media Marketing with a Blog

Social media is an important medium that every small business should be embracing to help develop new business, understand what others are saying about them and/or their competitors, engage with and increase the loyalty of their customers and fans, and potentially even provide another avenue for customer support over social channels.  There are many choices…

Anna Fox

How to Create a New Content Project Based on Seasonality

There’s one common problem every blogger is facing… “There’s so much content out there: How do I stand out?” Any time I feel the urge to start a new blog or I get a new client, there’s always that question. What to write in the era when every topic – no matter how finely niched…

Ann Smarty

Top Tips To Help New Bloggers Get Better

A large number of internet users have turned to blogging for a number of diverse reasons. Many consider it an extremely promising career option while other takes it as medium for expressing their thoughts and opinions. Therefore, blogs on every conceivable topic exist on the internet and it is growing in number with every passing…

Shaheryar Sadiq

4 Ways Your Inner Critic Can Make You a Better Writer

No matter what people say, everyone has an inner critic. You know who your inner critic is. It is that voice inside your head that keeps telling you that you are not good enough or that your writing is poor. Although your inner critic can make you feel miserable, it can also help you become…

Alice Elliott

Want More Web Traffic? Now’s The Time To Think Socially!

Today we are examining whether you think socially about web traffic. And the first thing we need to get straight is what you envisage is web traffic. Do you consider getting a high number of visits to your website as successful? Do stats like 200,000+ a month get your juices flowing? Sure, these kinds of…