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 the motivation to write content you’ll give away. Finding the motivation to write a guest post isn’t easy. It’s a struggle, and guest posting can be hard work. What to do? Writing for your own
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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 arrangement a success. There’s a trend happening around the Internet. Work smarter, not harder. Don’t burn yourself out trying to post a ton. Ease up on blogging. The solution? Fill your blog with guest posts! Take a vacation! Hell, bring a
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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 to guarantee that your guest posting attempts achieve low results, ramp up that arTEESTe attitude, create a self-fulfilling prophecy and give guest posting half a serious shot instead of a real college try. Perfect. Welcome to failure. Remember
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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, to help get that “yes” you’re looking for: First, have a thick skin. Rejection isn’t personal, and it’s not a reflection of your self-worth. Thank the blog owner for considering you and taking the time to read your request.
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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 could he destroy this? Both Pen Men had figured it was time to bring in heavy-duty explosives. They were looking forward to complete demolition, especially after the last few hit jobs they’d had. They had come prepared, with explosives
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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 our PR 4 when we moved in February and started back at zero. PR isn’t that important. But a PR5 is still a nice reward for our hard work. We couldn’t make it this far without you, though, so we’d
> Read MoreGuest 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 have many positive effects, and it can have many negative effects as well. Posts tossed about here and there aren’t ones that will achieve specific, measurable goals. Taking the time to manage the situation properly and good
> Read MoreHALT 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 of you reading right now tosses logic out the window every now and then and lets your emotions take control. In business, you need to curb this urge. When working with other peers, for employers or with clients,
> Read MoreFour 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 people come to us with the request for a new design and some great copy. That’s great; we’re happy to help. But even our magic can’t help business owners who have a poorly chosen domain name, a terrible
> Read MoreThe 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 and determination. That deserves a nod. He’s been hiding out somewhere down in Auz, and we dragged him out to plunk him down and present him to you. Joel? The stage is yours, bro. The more time I spend
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