blogging

Like any career, when you start blogging, your goal should be to be the best you can be. The higher you set your goals, the better chance you will have of achieving success in your career. A lot of folks tend to look at the guys at the top and get discouraged by the amount [...]

You better be if you want to make it in the blogging world. I was lucky to start blogging in 2004, when blogging was something fairly new. The blogging world has changed in the past few years. We have had a social media explosion, and Twitter has become its own monster in the past few [...]

Coming up for new blogging ideas can be a challenge, even for blogging superstars. Blogging is very similar to falling in love with someone. At first, your relationship is going strong, but after a while you will have to try new things and make a bigger effort to keep the relationship strong. Blogging is the [...]

A lot of people are afraid of the smallest things such as spiders. But being afraid of blogging? Nah! That can’t be real, right? It’s true. I have talked to many folks who really really want to start a blog. But they keep allowing their fears to get in the way. Love and fear are [...]

Everybody wants to be a star. That’s just a fact of life. In order to be a star, you got to start from somewhere. If you ask the experts, they will tell you that you need to be unique and do something crazy to become a star. But in truth, there is always a workhorse [...]

Consequences. For every action, there is a consequence. When it comes to starting a blog, getting over the fear of handling the techie stuff is only one part of the equation. Thinking about the consequences of what you are going to write about should be your top priority, depending on the type of blog that [...]

I don’t know about you, but when I got started with blogging, I was so passionate that I did it in bunches. I started maybe 6 blogs at once and went from there. Looking back now, that was probably a mistake. In reality, managing a blog is a huge responsibility. Each and every post needs [...]

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 [...]

I don’t know about you, but blogging for 7 days a week, on 35 different blogs, definitely takes its toll on me. A while ago, I adopted the practice of writing down my blog ideas in advance in order to avoid blanking out the day my posts were due. But once in a while, I [...]

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. [...]