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: What’s the Main Reason So Many Blogs Fail?

by Tia Peterson August 3, 2010

When you sit down to write a post, do you ever think about how much effort you’re putting into it? How much time do you dedicate to producing something that is meaningful, useful, funny, intriguing, silly, or thought-provoking? Do you care whether people actually like it or do you sometimes get into the mindset, “I [...]

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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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Question of the Week: Do You Consider Yourself Influential?

by Tia Peterson July 16, 2010

One of the recurring, underlying themes in the blogosphere is influence. This week, a few of the good posts revolving around influence included Kristi Hines‘ How to Find the Most Influential People on Twitter in Your Niche, which details some strategies you can use to develop relationships with people of influence, (with the ideal result [...]

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Are Your Comments Bringing in Traffic, or Not?

by Tia Peterson July 15, 2010

I am a member of the ProBlogger.com forum, and we get newsletters every so often. In today’s newsletter, something caught my eye: Challenge: 30 Day Comment Campaign Have you noticed, due in part to the big CommentLuv/Famous Bloggers contest, that commenting is like, on hyper-drive lately? It seems that commenting has become (almost) as important [...]

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Why Criticism Is Your Best Friend

by Tia Peterson July 12, 2010

Criticism is extraordinarily helpful and at the same time, it can be extraordinarily destructive. It depends on where it is coming from. Early on, I connected with someone I admire and believe has my best interests in mind. When he says something critical about what I am doing or writing, I accept it wholeheartedly. Why? [...]

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Two Cents Tuesday: Blog Design is a Woman’s Prerogative

by Tia Peterson July 6, 2010

Notice something new? Hint for the guys: I did NOT get a new hair cut. Ah, yes. Yet another  change. Chalk it up to growing pains. A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled across a blog and the blogger was using the same exact avatar I had been using in her blog design. It was [...]

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Blogger Questions Answered: How to deal with rude comments

by Tia Peterson July 5, 2010

This question was submitted by Glenn Waldron. Q. How do you contend with negative bloggers (I’m talking about mean bloggers who post negative comments)? A. Hey Glenn, thanks for your submission, and sorry to hear that you took down your blog. Hopefully you find another edge in the CAD industry, and produce a successful blog [...]

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