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Should You Blog Anonymously or Use Your Real Name? 0

Should You Blog Anonymously or Use Your Real Name?

This post is based on episode 122 of the ProBlogger podcast. One of the decisions you face when starting a blog is whether or not to use your real name. It can be a tricky decision, because there are pros and cons to whatever you decide. You can choose anything from ‘no anonymity’ through to ‘full anonymity’. For instance, you could: Blog under your real name and promote it prominently on your blog. This is what I do ProBlogger. You could even take it to the extreme and use your name as your actual domain name (and thus the name of your...

How to Handle Critical and Attacking Comments from Blog Readers 0

How to Handle Critical and Attacking Comments from Blog Readers

How do you deal with criticism? When you put yourself out there as a blogger, the feedback you get isn’t always as constructive as you’d like. It can even verge on being an aggressive or personal attack. While I’ve only experienced it a handful of times in my blogging career, it can be difficult to deal with. So what can you do if it happens to you? Well, you can always look at the bright side. Any feedback you get is proof that someone’s reading your blog and noticing you. But you should also consider the kind of feedback you’re getting...

Blogging Tip: How Should You Pitch Companies? 0

Blogging Tip: How Should You Pitch Companies?

Why? 100%, you focus on scarcity. Where your energy and focus goes, grows. Focus on scarcity. Tune in to scarcity. Aka, no money. Aka, no clients. Have you ever seen bloggers who seem to kill themselves for 18 hours daily and do not make a cent. Said bloggers work harder and harder and harder to see 0 dollars. But after working even, harder, and not seeing paying customers buy their courses and eBooks, a light bulb tends to go off; after a mental breakdown. At least, in my case LOL. I had to finally realize I struggled to attract paying...

Why 2020 Is the Right Time to Reinvent Your Digital Strategy 0

Why 2020 Is the Right Time to Reinvent Your Digital Strategy

Mark Zeni Next-generation technologies are affecting the way businesses can get value from the information they generate and process. The global pace of change is growing rapidly each year and 2020 can be a truly disruptive year. Let’s find out what opportunities innovation gives, what risks you should consider, and what concrete steps you can take to benefit from the upcoming changes in the digital world.   Obviously, people have never had so many powerful technology solutions to address their problems in society, business, and community. Not to fail and successfully use these capabilities, we have to understand clearly how to...

Are Blog Comments Still Worthwhile … Or Are They a Waste of Time? 0

Are Blog Comments Still Worthwhile … Or Are They a Waste of Time?

A decade ago, new bloggers were often advised to leave comments on other blogs to start building traffic to their own blog. But is it still worth doing? For years, there’s been a lot of debate in the blogging world about comments. Plenty of big blogs have disabled (and sometimes re-enabled) comments on their blogs, often due to spam or the time spent moderating comments. With the rise of social media, many readers turn to Facebook or Twitter to share their thoughts about a post. So a lot of blogs find they only get a tiny handful of comments on...

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How to Rekindle Your Blogging Enthusiasm

Have you hit a slump in your blogging? Perhaps you haven’t posted anything in weeks or even months because your enthusiasm for the topic has gone and you’re finding it hard to be consistent. Or maybe you have been posting regularly, but are now starting to feel fed up, exhausted, or even burned out. Here are six ways to turn things around. #1: Take a Proper Break from Blogging If your blogging enthusiasm has been waning for a while, or if feels like yet another chore on your to-do list, it’s probably time for a break. Take some time off from...

Never Parrot a Blogging Pro 0

Never Parrot a Blogging Pro

Yes but you need to be 100% committed to blogging from Day 1 of your blogging career. Most bloggers feel so weighed down by fear and a general lack of clarity – aka overwhelm and confusion – that they struggle horribly to get traffic to a new blog, let alone quickly. For example, new bloggers begin armed with a wild-eyed excitement and fervor for potential and promise in this awesome niche. But said excitement is just fear, masked, and when the excitement dies and morphs into other fears, these new guys blog once monthly or every 2 months. 3 to...

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Strategies You Can Use for a Successful Business

There are so many simple tools and strategies that your business can use in order to ensure its success. You’d be surprised how easy it is to make the changes, and how effective they are in terms of outcome. Whether you’re facing difficulties in growing your business or just considering starting a new one, here are a few strategies you can use to lead your business to success.  Know your customer The main focus of your business should be around your customers, understanding what they want and what can be improved as well as what’s missing. Understanding your customers can...

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Top 10 Online Proofreading Services

Mark Zeni There are plenty of proofreading software and tools available online which allow you to proofread your documents for free. Relying on them for a cursory check while writing is okay. But solely trusting such automated algorithms to verify your work for “mistakes” and “grammatical errors” is only a recipe for disaster, especially when machines still haven’t grasped the intricacies of human language and grammar.  That’s why authors and academic experts recommend having your written work proofread by an English language expert or by professional proofreaders. Here are few solid reasons to find professional proofreading help:  They are grammar...

Awesome Advice for Small Business Starters 0

Awesome Advice for Small Business Starters

Mark Zeni With the overwhelming amount of information and suggested strategies out there, many startups struggle to figure out exactly how to grow their businesses. This is made even harder with the overwhelming amount of information and suggested strategies that is out there. Sometimes business owners will try to incorporate too many strategies at once while not seeing any results.  Assuming you have a good business idea and an end goal, some focus and guidelines can get your business growing.   Don’t dismiss network scalability  Whether you are selling a product or a service in the early stages, starting small is...