How do I get people to subscribe to my blog?

Ask…Ask Often…Make it easy to say YES!

So now you’re thinking but where do I ask? How do I ask?

First, on every page of your blog make sure you have an area where someone can subscribe via RSS or email. Give them the option to subscribe to updates. I also include the ability [...]

What is the ideal length of a blog post?

250-450 words.

So what do I do now with the other 240-440 words of this post?

How about if I tell you why I believe 250-450 words is the ideal length for a blog post?

Information Overload- Today’s reader is overwhelmed with the amount of available content, the ability to receive that content [...]

Blogging-How to Get Started

Do you feel like you should be blogging but just don’t know what to start writing about? Do you already have a blog but make posts occasionally because you haven’t figured out a real ‘method to the madness?’

Here’s an idea to help you quickly and painlessly get 10 blogs (possibly more). Are you [...]

How often should I blog?

I’m afraid there isn’t a one-size fits all answer for “How often should I blog?” Unfortunately it depends.

For someone completely new to writing and blogging I’d say 1-2 times per week is a good benchmark to strive for. Just getting into the habit of writing blogs is a big adjustment for some [...]

What is a Blog?

I’m sure you’re heard…you gotta have a blog?

But what is a blog?

Technically…’From “Web log.”  A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘ Source

Not so technically …it’s a type of website [...]

Building Your Blogging Muscles

As you might have noticed, FreeSocialMediaHelp.com recently got a new logo and a website redesign! As I was loading up the new files I got to thinking…what a long way this blog has come in eighteen months!

At first I was blogging to Penelope and a couple loyal friends.

And now FreeSocialMediaHelp.com is…

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Are You Reaching Out to Bloggers?

In the old economy, if you wanted your product or business to get a lot of attention you might try to form relationships with the writer for the local or national paper, television station or magazine. These ‘media outlet’s’ dominated the communication between ‘big business’ and ‘consumer’.  With the decline of readership in newspapers [...]

5 Ways to Develop Your Content Library

Sometimes we all get stuck with how to create valuable content to provide our audience with.  Here are 4 quick ways to help you create content to stock your content library with so that you always have content to draw from and never find yourself with writer’s block.

Ask yourself “What are the 10 [...]

25 Questions to Ask Yourself to Make Your Blog Better

In the previous post we talked about the 5 elements to consider when grading the success of your blog now I have some question for you to help you take stock of where you need to make improvements in case your currently failing blogging now and would like to become an ‘A’ blog or [...]

Your Blog Report Card

In high school and college, I was president of the Honor Society and graduated college Magna Cum-Laude. I wouldn’t attribute ALL of my academic success to smarts alone.  What I consider myself good at was learning what each instructor WANTED to be done for an ‘A’ and I would do just that.  Every test [...]

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