Blogging

How to Boost your Income and Popularity by Giving Stuff Away

A Guest Post by Johnny B Truant. I know what you’re thinking. You’re blogging to make money, or to express yourself. So why would you ever give something away? If you’re in this as a business, giving stuff away without charging for it seems counterintuitive. If you’re just out there writing for the sake of [...]

7 Links for Bloggers

Yesterday I challenged readers to write a post that took a 7 link challenge – linking to 7 posts that fit into 7 themes. I thought I’d take it for myself here on ProBlogger. Your first post – the first post I ever wrote on ProBlogger (I’d been posting on other blogs for a couple [...]

Successful Blogging – Reasons Why 99% Fail At Blogging

This is a guest post by Karo Itoje What is successful blogging? And how many people are successful in blogging? You can be said to be a successful blogger if you have followed the right steps to building a blog and as a result now have a blog doing well with good number of regular [...]

How to Take an Idea to Launch in 4 Steps

“How do you know which projects to go with and which to leave behind?” This is a question I’ve been asked almost every time I’ve spoken at events recently so I thought I’d jot down a few thought on the process that I find myself going through when looking at opportunities to expand my business [...]

Brainstorming Activity: What Could You Sell from Your Blog?

Today I’d like to suggest an exercise to think about the future of your blog. It’s a brainstorming task to get you thinking about the types of products and services you might one day add to your blog. I remember doing this for ProBlogger 4 or so years ago and coming up with a long [...]