This is a follow up to yesterday’s post Educate Your Readers, about the four different learning styles of blog readers. Why this is important: Because you want your blog posts to educate, entertain, and engage readers of your business blog. What do you need to remember when writing a post that’s designed to educate? According […]
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When you write, do you try to seduce people? Psychologists will tell you there are four basic temperaments, each with it’s own particular emotional triggers. Most TV sitcoms have characters who are prime examples of these. Take Sex in the City. Each of the four women embody different personality styles: Carrie serves as the Humanistic […]
Win an Amazon book certificate being given away everyday to a random commenter over on BuildaBetterBlog.com. Denise and I started this blog in February 2005 to support our work and ebook all about blogs, Build a Better Blog: the Ultimate Guide to Boosting Your Business with a Professional Blog, and today we posted our 1000th […]
Usability expert Jakob Nielsen says write articles, not blog entries. Writing in his latest Alertbox column, Jakob Nielsen says: "Blog postings will always be commodity content: there’s a limit to the value you can provide with a short comment on somebody else’s comments. Such postings are good for generating controversy and short-term traffic, and they’re […]
After you’ve posted daily on your key points of a concept, and written a summary with a call to action, it’s time to gather the individual posts together and edit them as stand alone articles. Since they are already written, this isn’t difficult to do. You must keep in mind, however, that you are developing […]
Last night Denise and I spoke with Jeff Herring’s (The Article Guy) teleseminar group about differences with article writing, blog posts, and ezine content. Admittedly there is a lot to write when you want to get known on the web, and it can be confusing to newbies. Let’s break it down. First, you definitely want […]
The audio from Episode 3 of Blogging and Beyond is now posted. You can listen online or download the mp3 file. We’re working on getting the show set up as a podcast so you can get automatic downloads to your iPod or mp3 player. In the meantime, you can listen on our site or download […]
Kathy Sierra writes an excellent post called The Dumbness of Crowds over at her Creating Passionate Users blog. She writes, "…the most frustrating part for me is how the "Wisdom of Crowds" idea has been twisted and abused to mean virtually the opposite of what New Yorker columnist James Surowiecki says in the book of […]
"I want to start a blog, but what if I get stuck: what will I write about?" The Blog Squad hears this question frequently. Since we recommend posting blog content at least 2-3 times a week, it’s a valid concern. And yet, some of our star blogging clients catch the "bug" and love posting to […]
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