Earlier in the year I published a post where I shared links to 13 tools and services that I use every day in my blogging business. Today I wanted to add a four – particularly ones that relate to creating images for my blogs. PicMonkey I use PicMonkey every day to help me create images for sharing...

This is a guest contribution from  Michael Johnston, co-founder of MonetizePros.com. Split testing has become an absolute must for anyone running an e-commerce site or driving PPC traffic to a landing page. The benefits of disciplined experimentation have been well documented, and any serious e-commerce...

This is a guest contribution from  Stephan Spencer. Web entrepreneur and founder of hugely successful ShoeMoney Media Group and the Shoemoney blog, Jeremy Schoemaker has found incredible success in the use long form sales pages. Although at an early point in his web-marketing career he questioned the...

Image by Rares Dutu How do you keep yourself fresh, inspired and creative as a blogger? I was asked variations of this question three times this week, so thought I’d put my mind to giving a public answer. There are certainly times when I don’t feel overly ‘fresh’, ‘inspired’...

This is an guest interview by Jade Craven. It is my honour to share the story of Torre De Roche, and her journey from blogger to author with an impressive publishing deal. I first mentioned her on Problogger as one of the bloggers to watch in 2012. I was impressed with her self-published memoir and her...

This is a guest contribution by Belinda Weaver, marketing copywriter behind The Copy Detective. You’ve finished your latest blog post and it’s pretty good isn’t it, isn’t it? Are you sure?   Some bloggers think that coming up with ideas is the hardest part of blogging. Maybe you agree. Personally,...

This is a guest contribution from Jonathan Goodman. There are other people blogging about the same subject as you, maybe better or maybe worse—but, as you probably have figured out by now, content is no longer king; context is. Getting repeat readers who become brand ambassadors for you is pertinent...

Recently I had opportunity to sit with a small group of Pre-Bloggers – people about to start their first blogs. One of the question I was asked was for advice on how much content to have written before launching a new blog. My answer came in two parts: The Ideal Scenario What I actually have done The...

Tweet Many years ago I coined the phrase “Pillar Article” or sometimes called, “Pillar Content“, to describe how to create great blog content. To my surprise, it really caught on in the blogging about blogging community and many thousands of bloggers use it to describe...

Hey guys, I’m writing you from the sandy beaches of Maui where I’ve had some time to reflect on what it takes to affect change. It’s true what they say…improvement begins with an I. Yup. Think about it…anything you want to improve always begins with taking a good hard look at yourself and...