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You’re not blogging for YOU, you’re blogging for THEM!

Date: 18th May 2010
Comments: 3 Related Categories: Blogging
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268/365 - Default StateIt's a common mistake, and a common question:

Nikki, I find it really hard to blog – I'm running out of things to say about my business!

When you start a blog you're usually all gung-ho – you'll blog every couple of days, there's loads to say about your accountancy services / nappy website / building company etc etc. And at first it's easy. You blog about your great products and services, new clients, special offers and more. But then it gets a little harder – every blog seems to be the same, the readership has trailed off, comments have come to a halt and you wonder why you bother.

5 blog headlines from today’s newspapers

Date: 13th May 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Blogging
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News Paper Origami Dragon MonsterOne of the issues that a lot of people have when writing blogs is that they can't think of anything to write about. One way to stimulate the creative juices and come up with ideas is to scan through the news. Just reading a few news stories can give you something to write about, so let's see what headlines we can find for blog posts today, and what sort of blogs could be written:

 

Recommended Wordpress plugin – Photodropper for Wordpress

Date: 10th May 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Blogging
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If you post a lot of your blog's content onto Facebook, you really need to include a picture with your blog posts to make it look good, stand out and not look like everything else you post on your Facebook Fan Page or profile.

But of course, you can't just go running to a search engine and steal any old picture, without giving proper credit or paying for it.

Which is where this fab plugin comes in – Photodropper for Wordpress searches Flickr for pictures that you ARE allowed to use, and allows you to put them into your blog posts, along with the proper accreditation and copyright notice – all at the touch of a few buttons!

Can you write about your experiences of email marketing? Want some free promotion?

Date: 28th April 2010
Comments: 2 Related Categories: Blogging
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I'm looking for people to write guest blogs on a fairly well trafficked blog. The blog itself focuses on email marketing, so your guest blog would have to be about that. Obviously you can promote your own website within the blog post, but it must also be of interest to our readers.

The basic outline is:

  • there is no fee for this
  • 200+ words
  • Must not be a purely self promotional piece

Recommended Wordpress Plugin – Facebook ‘Like’ Button

Date: 23rd April 2010
Comments: 7 Related Categories: Blogging, Freebies, facebook
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Since Facebook announced that they were offering the functionality for website oweners to have 'Like' buttons on their non Facebook content, the race has been on to develop a plugin.

We've found two so far.

  • Facebook Like Wordpress Plugin V1 (link goes directly to zip file) – this puts a Like button at the top or bottom of your posts (we've put it at the bottom( of ours as you can see). You can change the size and a few other options, which makes this one our favourite. You can find out more about this plugin on this blog post written by the creator.