One of the most common tools in your blog promotion arsenal is the guest post. If you can write a post that another blog publishes, you not only receive a link to your blog, but you also get your name…
It doesn’t happen much, but when it does, the world comes crashing down. When I don’t have access to the Internet because of a power outage, or because something’s gone wrong with my service provider, I’m in serious trouble. My…
One of the questions that I am constantly asked is this: “How do you find high-paying writing gigs?” The truth? I don’t actually look. And, honestly, sometimes I’m probably not paid as much as I could be. However, if you…
Do you use podcasts on your blog? A podcast can be an interesting way to engage your audience, as well as provide a little media variety to your blog. Before you start, though, it helps to have a plan —…
One of the great things about FINCON11 was that I learned so many neat things. And, as you can probably attest to, some of the best learning experiences took place during candid, casual conversations with other bloggers. One of the…
One of the interesting conventions at the Financial Blogger Conference last month was a helpful designation on name tags as to who didn’t want to be identified. Even though some people had their real names on their tags, they made…
I act as the gatekeeper for two different sites when it comes to guest posts. I often see very poor quality guest posts come through. At first, I spent a great deal of time editing these guest posts, convinced that…
