From the category archives:

Technique

What Are You Trying to Say?

by Tia Peterson August 23, 2010
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The primary purpose of any blog is to communicate something. You can have one blog or you can have many; it doesn’t matter. Each blog is responsible for communicating something different.

What is your message? Why are you blogging in the first place?

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The Art of Embracing the Oops Moments

by Tia Peterson August 19, 2010
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You’ve probably heard that being a perfectionist will set you up for some serious heartburn in life. In blogging, it is no different. You will hit “Publish” before you are ready many times. You will wish you titled your post differently. You will wish that you used a different image in a post, or that you responded to someone’s comment differently, or that you had linked out more in a particular article.

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Top Web Hosting Companies for Blogs

by Tia Peterson August 18, 2010
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One of the things people ask me all of the time is where to buy web hosting for their new blogs. In a massive sea of web hosting companies, how do you choose the right one? I have been developing websites since 2001 when I was still in college. Back then, I used a company [...]

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Are you a grasshopper or an ant blogger?

by Kiesha August 17, 2010
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Do you wait until the last minute to finally log in and update your blog? Do you often end up in a panic when you realize your ideas have run cold? Do you run to someone else’s blog to scrape up whatever crumbs of content you can find there – rehashing what they’ve just said?

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Business Blogging: Are You Spending Too Much Time, or Too Little?

by Tia Peterson August 16, 2010
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It’s very common now to see a link to a blog on a website, no matter what the organization is or what it does. Blogs are found on websites belonging to churches, small businesses, huge corporations, real estate professionals and non-profit organizations. What has happened is that business owners and marketing professionals realize the enormous [...]

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How to Write Without Being Overly Promotional

by Tia Peterson August 11, 2010
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Subtlety doesn’t always work, but in certain blogging circles, it’s a must. How do you sell without selling? Promote without promoting?

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Two Cents Tuesday: (Some) Blogs Get Better with Age

by Tia Peterson July 20, 2010

“Patience is a virtue, possess it if you can. Seldom in a woman, never in a man.” — Origin is debated. Don’t stone me. I didn’t make that saying up, guys. If you’ve been reading my blog for awhile and if you have downloaded and read (hint), you may notice this thing I have about [...]

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