Tag Archive: business blogging

Blogger’s Block: Writing Tips to Get “Unstuck”

What do you do when you’re stuck and can’t write on your blog? Here are some blog writing tips. I diagrammed them out. It’s the rainy season here in Mexico – a great time to do a lot of reading and writing.  At least, that’s what one would think…But…I’m having trouble.  I’m stuck.  I’ve got…

If Your Blog Writing Still Stinks…

Your blog writing can improve. I’ve talked about this before:  here’s a secret formula you can use to grab people’s attention, stimulate their desire, and trigger action. Ba-da-boom, instant sales and subscriptions! Don’t be silly, there are no easy formulas, of course not. But just follow along with me here. I’ve been reading several neuroscience…

6 Writing Tips for SEO Friendly Content Marketing

Do you know how to write SEO-friendly content your readers will love? This week’s guest post by Christian Arno of Lingo24 shares 6 writing tips for writing online content that works for both readers and search engines. Writing for the web can be like walking on a tightrope. Do you litter your blog writing and…

How Blogging Is Like Playing Tennis

Blogging for your business is like playing tennis: you read the environment, deliver key shots, get ready for the next post, respond to feedback, and try to stay on target. I play tennis with an “excuse champion.” Every time she misses a shot, she blames her racquet, or her strings, the ball, the sun, wind,…

What’s Missing in Content Marketing: Who and Why

Storytelling and personalization is the biggest missing piece in content marketing as I see it. People are good at writing about what they know. They aren’t as good about expressing who they are and why they do what they do. If you’re not writing real stories, your content – on your blog, in your newsletter,…

Content Marketing: Connect the Dots and Drive Results

How do you master the art of writing content for the Web so that you provide quality information on your web pages, blog, and newsletters that works to convert readers to clients? Ahhh, that’s what I’ve been trying to figure out for the last 12 years. In the World Wide Web, there often seems to…

Content Curation: How to Become a Thought Leader

Here’s an important post from Joe Pulizzi’s Junta42 blog, Content Curation Grows Up, Original Content Still Key . I share these key points with anyone who struggles with writing online for their business and needs ideas for what to write. I first heard the term content curation is this post by Rohit Bhargava back in…

Vote: What Makes You Read a Blog Post?

What do you find is the most important thing about a blog post? What makes you read? Mark Schaefer over at {grow} blog asked this question and gives his opinion. Here are the choices: Online Surveys & Market Research   Take a few minutes to decide, then leave a comment about the top blogging elements…

Punk Chihuahua Reveals 4 Secrets to Better Blogging

How’s your content marketing with blogs? Are you brilliantly blogging several times a week? There comes a time when we all run out of things to say (or at least most of us!). The blog must be fed anyway. Treat your blog like a prized chihuahua… feed it well and it will do wonders to…

Connect Your Blog to Facebook Automatically

UPDATE: From Karen, January 21, 2012  Unfortunately, Facebook has disabled this process as of September 2011 and it no longer works. We have to post a link to our blogs in the status or copy and paste as a rich text note. From Patsi, February 2012: We apologize for not updating this post earlier, but…