Start a Blog

Just like starting an essay on a subject of your own choosing, writing your very first blog post can be a bit mind-numbing for folks. After all, you are getting on this amazing journey, and you don’t know how to start the conversation. It’s easy to pretend that you have been in the business for [...]

Choosing a domain name for a blog is one of the most important decisions you will ever make for your blog. It’s sort of like choosing a house to settle in, knowing that moving would be difficult and very costly. The truth is, you simply can’t jump from one domain to another if you don’t [...]

One of the best topics that you can tackle with a blog is your favorite hobby. Hobbies are dear to our hearts, and we can’t seem to run out of opinions and ideas about our hobbies. Start a hobby blog can be risky depending on your hobby of choice, and it could test your love [...]

You may have heard this question before: “Build it or Buy it?” That’s goes around a lot in business schools. In essence, you want to figure out if you are better off making something (a business usually) from scratch as opposed to buying an existing solution. The same concept applies to blogs as well. You [...]

It’s amazing how e-mail is considered overrated by some marketers these days. Sure, we have Twitter, FaceBook, Myspace, and RSS to reach out to users and keep them coming back to you. It is true that Twitter is quickly becoming a dominant communication platform for marketers, but e-mail still matters and will for a few [...]

So you have finally decided to give the whole blogging thing a go. But it’s not that easy, is it? After all, you need to know what you want to write about. In fact, probably 80% of people don’t make it to their 3rd post after they realize they really have nothing to talk about [...]