Say Goodbye to Bad Habits: Five You Should Ditch in the New Year

The post Say Goodbye to Bad Habits: Five You Should Ditch in the New Year appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Bobby Johnson on Unsplash I don’t know about you, but it’s around this time of year when I start thinking about all the things that didn’t quite work out over the last 12 months in my blogging efforts. Things I got wrong, things I didn’t...

Dec 2021

Five Steps to Have Your Blog Run Without You Over The Holidays

The post Five Steps to Have Your Blog Run Without You Over The Holidays appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Natalya Zaritskaya on Unsplash   This is a guest contribution from The Suitcase Entrepreneur, Natalie Sisson. December is a special time of the year. It’s a time for reflection, for planning and for new beginnings. It’s also an excellent...

Dec 2021

How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog

The post How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Jakub Balon on Unsplash One of the better posts I always remember reading is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here...

Nov 2021

What My 4-Year-Old Son Taught Me About Successful Blogging

The post What My 4-Year-Old Son Taught Me About Successful Blogging appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash This story goes back to when my eldest (now 15-year-old) son was just a toddler and I delivered a Keynote at BlogWorld Expo, where I told how my son reminded me of a powerful principle of successful blogging. So...

Nov 2021

Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season?

The post Is Your Blog Ready for the Festive Season? appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash There are only 44 days until Christmas! It’s that time of year: the silly season is almost upon us: there’s only 15 days until Black Friday and 18 days until Cyber Monday. If you start preparing your blog for Christmas in December...

Nov 2021

Are You Spreading Yourself Too Thinly?

The post Are You Spreading Yourself Too Thinly? appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Camille Villanueva on Unsplash Today I want to share one last way to let your blog go to round off our 10 part series. It’s something that has at times almost brought my own blogging to a grinding halt. Problem Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself...

Nov 2021

How to Avoid Becoming a Single-Minded Blogger

The post How to Avoid Becoming a Single-Minded Blogger appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Samuel Berner on Unsplash One of the most common ways that I see a blog ‘go under’ is when the blogger gets distracted from the overall task of blogging by one single aspect of blogging. Here’s the thing – for a blog to become successful you can’t just...

Oct 2021

Tips to Add Originality to your Blog

The post Tips to Add Originality to your Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Mohamed Nohassi on Unsplash Recently, we’ve been looking at a variety of ways that bloggers let their blogs degenerate. Today I want to talk about something that has the potential to kill a blog very quickly – the lack of original content or ideas. This is a mistake...

Oct 2021

How to Avoid Becoming a Negative Blogger

The post How to Avoid Becoming a Negative Blogger appeared first on ProBlogger.   Photo by Hello I’m Nik on Unsplash Recently we’ve been looking at a variety of ways that bloggers let their blogs ‘slip’ over time. So far we’ve looked at mainly things that are pretty easy to identify – but today I want to look at something that creeps into the...

Oct 2021

Tips for When You Can’t Blog

The post Tips for When You Can’t Blog appeared first on ProBlogger. Photo by Daniel Jensen on Unsplash Have you ever come across a blog that posts more about why they don’t post than anything else? I hesitate to write about this method of ‘letting your blog go’ because I know that most bloggers do go through stages when they struggle to post to...

Oct 2021