Blogging Mistakes

We have all heard the saying before: “never put all your eggs in one basket.” And boy does it apply to all of us bloggers. Blogging is like any other business. There are going to be risks and rewards involved along the way. Blogging can be hard at first. You have to do hard work [...]

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money on your blog. You put a lot of time to research and write your blog posts, so the last thing you want to do is look for a job to supplement your income just because you are not monetizing your blog. Affiliate programs provide [...]

People are losing their jobs these days, and everywhere you look, you see good folks who are desperate to find a new job or start a new business. Blogging is assumed to be one of the best ways to make money online. It looks all so easy when you are on the outside, and the [...]

Blogging is like everything else in life. When you are just getting started with it, you can’t get enough of it. No obstacle seems to high. And no challenge seems impossible. But once you have written a few hundred posts, things are going to get real interesting. You can think of your blog as your [...]

For a long time I wondered what it was about misspellings that turned people off so bad. That was until I met a grammar professor in the Community College of Philadelphia. She was someone who mentored me when I needed mentoring. She taught me everything I know (and I wish I could have learned my [...]

Everybody is talking about traffic. The more you have it, the more you want it. And when you don’t have it, you keep dreaming about it. Traffic is not everything, but it is a big deal. As a blogger, you want to get rewarded for your hard work. But your masterpiece isn’t going to get [...]

The year 2008 saw the true rise of Twitter. The kids today can’t get enough of Twitter, and the community is growing rapidly. But what I have noticed in the past few months is that some folks are using Twitter and Facebook exclusively. In other words, instead of having a blog or a website to [...]

Can it? That’s the question I asked myself when I joined my last company. After all, I was blogging on a part time basis (at night), and I needed a full-time job to pay for my student loans. I remember the first time I interviewed with the Vice President of operations at my previous company. [...]

Run a blog may sound easy when you are just a reader but once you move to the other side of the aisle, you realize that there are plenty of challenges and detours along the way. Unfortunately, most people learn their lessons the hard way (including yours truly). But bloggers who succeed often find a [...]

Social media. We all want it. We all need it. It’s gotten so bad that folks are being treated for being addicted to the social media sites such as Facebook. In fact, you can make an 80 hour week living out of just tracking developments in the social media world. It’s, for some, actually a [...]