25 things I wish I’d known when I started blogging
This post summarises what I feel I’ve learned in those years and how you can apply the things I’ve learned to your own site and strategy to succeed.
How to Create Headlines That Go Viral With Social Media
Are you struggling to get more clicks and bookmarks on your articles? Possibly there is one area in which your content is letting you down. Even the best blog post writers sometimes make this mistake.
9 Ways to Make Your Writing More Compelling
Whether it’s marketing copy for your client, a sales pitch to a client, or a cover letter for your resume, all of us need to write in a way that is compelling, interesting, and unique. (Ed: Applies to blog content too!)
Write When Inspired
Write when inspired; rest when tired.
20 Tips on How to Write for the Web
There are really only a few tricks to writing properly for the web. If you know how to write, you are already 95% of the way there.
5 Killer Ways to Improve your Writing Right Now
One of the hallmarks of producing great content for your blog is writing it so it sounds natural, the way it would if we were chatting with each other over a coffee.
The Sexy Art of Writing Headlines that Kill
If you’ve written for a print publication, you’ve had the bittersweet experience of submitting a story and having your headline written for you. It’s great, because another human being has to go through the agonizing experience of writing the perfect headline for your story. It’s also horrible, because this little baby that you’ve nursed and cradled and nurtured to perfection is now turned over to a perfect stranger, who for all you know will mangle it with a clunky humdrummer.
Five Beginner’s Blogging Tips
5 beginner blogging tips from John Chow.
Avoid Bad Blog Posts With These 3 Writing Tips
Nearly every article I’ve ever read about Professional Blogging has mentioned these fairly obvious tips for writing better blog posts.
7 Ways to Crank Out Articles
One of my best skills is being able to turn out a high number of articles each week. My output varies depending on the complexity and length of a story, but I can crank out anywhere from 3-6 articles a day — which doesn’t hurt the pocketbook.