Posts tagged blogging
6 Reasons Why Blogging Still Matters
We all know what a blog is, or at least we pretend to know. Since their heyday in the early 2000s, nearly everyone has stumbled over or even written one. According to this blog, 6.7 million people publish their own blog. And if you count “microblogging” such as Twitter and Tumblr, too, there are almost…
Why Blogs Can Make Great Books (Writing In the 21st Century)
Who’s still blogging in the age of Social Media? In the info-storm of tweeting, instagramming our food and facebooking our pets is there time or even a need for blogs? The answer of course is an absolute unequivocal YES. Blogs are even more powerful than they were 10 years ago, and contrary to what some…
Three Quick Ways To Turn WordPress Into An Awesome Website Builder
In my recent book “How To Blog: Build An Audience, Boost Your Traffic and Kick-Start Your Business Without Selling Your Soul” I talk a lot about why WordPress is one of the best solutions for running your own professional blog. But did you know that WordPress is not just a powerful system for blogs but…
How To Create Reality By Writing
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.” – Douglas Adams But how was it created? (Don’t worry, I won’t go all preachy on you..) It’s a popular part of common debates to argue whether a supreme being…
Top 3 Business Blogging Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
According to Pingdom, there are 152 million blogs on the Internet, as counted by BlogPulse. Doesn’t sound so much, does it, compared to the whopping 600 million of Facebook “Likers”… And how many of those 152 million blogs are actually well-maintained, receiving a steady flow of traffic and new content? How many of those are…
Why Blogging Is The Best Way To Boost Your Brand Or Business
In the movie “The Social Network” young Mark Zuckerberg gets dumped by his girlfriend and goes home to publish some pretty rough stuff about her on his blog. According to the real Zuckerberg, none of this is true but the image of the blog as a venting-platform for nerds and other socially awkward personalities has…