Guest Posting: Finding the Motivation to Write

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Welcome to Day Five of our series on guest posting. We’ve covered:

How to Land a Guest Post Gig
Stacking the Odds of a Yes in Your Favor
The Attitudes and Mistakes that Blow Your Chances
Avoiding Guest Posting Problems that Damage Your Blog

Today’s topic is one that cropped up often in the comment sections of these posts: finding [...]

Guest Posting: Watch Out for Complaints

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Welcome to Day Four of our series on guest posting. We’ve looked at one easy way to land a guest post gig, how to better your chances of approval , and how to blow your chances of success.
Today’s post looks at some reader reactions to guest posting and some tips on making the [...]

Guest Posting: Throwing It All Away

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We’re into day three of our guest posting series. We’ve discussed how to land a guest post gig and how to stack the odds in your favor.
But what about skeptical guest posters, the ones who aren’t sure about the value of guest posting, look down on it and who see few benefits?
Well, if you want [...]

Guest Posting: Stacking the Odds for a Yes

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It takes some courage to step up and ask a blog owner to accept your guest post. Someone you admire is going to be looking at your work and approving it, after all. What if you’re not good enough?
Don’t worry; it’s okay. Those feelings are common. You can help stack odds on your side, too, [...]

Drive-By-Shooting Sundays: McAWilliams Photoblog

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Stunning. No other words could describe the scenery. After the heavy darkness of last week’s hit, stepping into this job’s location nearly knocked Harry off his feet.
He stood in the doorway, the sun streaming down through wide-open skylights. The black bag with the C4 and charges dropped from his hand, thudding at his feet.
How [...]

Men with Pens Moves Up a Notch with Google

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Google is updating its Page Rank tool this weekend – and we’re cheering. We’ve shifted up to a PR5, one very cool milestone to achieve.
We don’t really care much about SEO here at the blog. We don’t focus on keywords and we don’t go crazy if our PR goes down. In fact, we ditched [...]

Guest Posting: Landing the Gig Isn’t That Hard

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Guest posting is a huge topic for bloggers. In fact, the concept of guest posting involves a mishmash of debate, with pros and cons for both blogger and blog owner.
Should you? Shouldn’t you? What might happen? Will anything happen? Which blogs? Which bloggers? When should it start? When does it stop?
Oy. Confusing indeed.
Guest posting can [...]

HALT Your Way to Better Business

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I know the importance of keeping my cool and dealing with situations diplomatically. I work with people and clients. I can’t afford to react unthinkingly or poorly to difficult situations. And I do pretty well.
But like anyone, I sometimes react impulsively.
Am I alone in this behavior? Of course not. Everyone has knee-jerk reactions. Each one [...]

Four Choices To Brand Your Online Business

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Building a strong brand on the Internet isn’t easy. In fact, Internet branding is an area that most online businesses screw up rather badly.
From single freelancer to team business, brand is what gets you ahead. It gets you noticed. It makes you memorable. So why are you missing the opportunities to brand your site properly?
Many [...]

The Writer’s Biggest Excuse: Inspiration

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We rarely accept guest posts. In fact, we’ve only posted two other guest posts to this blog. Today, we’ll add a third to the list.
Joel Falconer is a freelance writer who has everything it takes to make it. He’s a fantastic person with a mind for business, and he’s going after success with strong will [...]

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