A while back I did a post called, The Power 10 List - Home Run Blog Topics. Then a little later I followed up with a video version of that post, Successful Blog Topics Your Readers Want - The Movie! Basically, the premise was for you to think of the top 10 questions customers always ask you about your business. Those could be 10 top areas from which you could draw inspiration for your blog … [Read more...]
Is one of the main reasons you're not posting as often as you'd like simply because it takes you too long to crank out a post? The Art of Brevity (yes, the "B" word again) The easy answer is write less per post. It's easy to get drawn into the subject once you start writing and you find yourself feeling like you need to cover every aspect of your topic. You don't. Try this: Cover the main … [Read more...]
Publish, publish, publish! Right!? The more content you can produce today, the better for your business tomorrow. You've been: blogging tweeting posting sharing commenting engaging What's the next step? Publish an eBook! Why an eBook? Because it's a way to offer your clients helpful information in one volume that is bigger and more comprehensive than a blog post. It gives you … [Read more...]
You've been hearing for years now that when it comes to web content, Brevity is King! That really is still the case, and it's even more and more important as much of your content will be read on a mobile phone. No one is going to want to sit down and read your next novel on their iPhone or Droid. But wait, is Bigger actually Better? (even when it comes to producing content?) I've recently been … [Read more...]
This video shows you a quick an easy way for you to give your WordPress website's blog posts and pages the potential to do better in Google searches by creating custom document titles. Basically tweaking your sites title tags. Also, in this tutorial I made reference to a WordPress plugin, All in One SEO Pack. You can learn more about that plugin … [Read more...]
I often suggest to my clients, that they break up the text in their blog posts with things like subheadings or bullet points. I've been asked more than once, how can they add bullet points in a WordPress post or page. This video shows exactly how this can be accomplished. Viewing tip: you might want to use full screen mode to be able to actually see what I'm doing! Enjoy! … [Read more...]
If you're trying to build momentum for your blog, one thing that can really help is to set a pace, then really try and keep up with that. Your readers and subscribers get used to your tempo and it's sets expectations. They look forward to your next post; your next bit of information that they can use to help their situation, or maybe even inspire them to make that next move. Do you need to post … [Read more...]
Just Get Started Producing Content for Your Website! Am I a great writer? For any of you who've been reading my posts with any regularity (is the right way to say that?), then you'll know that, NO, I'm not a great writer. Does that stop me from producing content that hopefully helps my clients (and anyone else who visits the site)? NO. I forge on! You Don't Have to Be a Great Writer to Write … [Read more...]
You've been waking up every morning, diligently creating great new content for your site. Posting it to your blog to help the masses and to draw them to you. Your content is pure gold, but you're still kind of new on the block and you're not well known yet. What can help? A couple things... Strong Post Titles I've done a few posts on the importance of an effective blog post title. But today I … [Read more...]
About four nights a week I take care of a 3.5 year old little boy named, Noah. On nights when he has trouble falling asleep he'll ask me for a story. I'll ask him, "What should the story be about?" He'll usually reply with something like, "Giant robots!" So I'll begin creating a story that I know he'll like. The really cool part is, after a couple minutes Noah will jump in and add something to … [Read more...]
This is the second design I've done for Ryan Frank and his business, Aqua Have Spas. The first one … [Read More...]
I was reading a post from Hostgator (affiliate link) this morning that gave tips on picking the … [Read More...]
If you recall, last week I reported that there has been a recent onset of WordPress sites being … [Read More...]
I love street photography. I've already got two other photography blogs/sites, so I didn't really … [Read More...]
