eXtra For Every Publisher

I previously discussed the important first step in naming your blog post titles – addressing your readers.
When the posts are now in the archives, you will now have to consider how other readers will discover your posts. And this is through the help of search engines. This is where the second step comes in, which [...]

Something I’ve noticed changing over the last two years is how companies perceive blogs. Early on in blogging, despite the success of many great blog networks at the time, companies seemed to think that blogs were really only a tool for average people to write about their lives, and the various minutia that occurred in [...]

I know it seems like such a cliche for most people, but I have been experiencing this myself. Since the economy went down, I have actually been working more. I’ve made my rates as low as I can, while still making the work I do worthwhile, and I am taking on as many projects as [...]

One of the things I haven’t talked about often, but have meant to are the mistakes I’ve made in my career. Most people will avoid such things, and for good reason, but I think part of teaching others about blogging must be to highlight mistakes so that you can hopefully avoid them, and while many [...]

Jeff and I recently talked about something interesting, and something that I assumed that was unique to my situation. As a full time blogger, I always feel like I am behind. When I start my day, I feel like I am working on things that should have been done two days ago, and at the [...]