The Three “Be’s” to Making Your Blog Stand Out Among the Millions Online

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As a budding entrepreneur, your blog is most likely going to be the first point of reference for your potential fans, subscribers, clients and customers. People will tune in to your posts and recommend your resources to their colleagues and friends if they perceive that you have a great reputation in your niche. Being online and having a blog is just the first step, [...]

How to Change the Name of Your WordPress Blog in 10 Steps

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As you’ve probably noticed, it’s been pretty quiet over here for the last month! I mentioned at the end of the 21 Days to a Better Business Blog Challenge that I’d be making some changes to Blogging for Branding. One of those changes was changing the name and expanding the focus of this blog to help [...]

What is a “Brand-Building” Blog?

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We’ve been having some great conversations inside The Blogging School about blogging for branding – whether it’s for your career or business. Several people already had a personal blog where they talked informally about their life. However, they recognized that if they wanted to use their blog to advance their career or build their business, [...]

21 Ways to Build Your Personal Brand Through Your Blog

As blogging becomes more of a professional endeavor than a personal hobby, bloggers are starting to follow more of the industry trends for marketing themselves online. What many of us are finding is that the more strategic we are with our blogging, the more it benefits our businesses and careers! Are you maximizing your blog [...]

4 Ways to Professionalize Your Blog in 2011

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Happy 2011! For most bloggers, this new year is prime time to knock the dust off of our blogs and kick our writing into gear. Do you have a plan to take your blog to the next level this year? If not, now would be the perfect time to make one. What will you do [...]

Thou Shalt Provide a Good User Experience On Your Blog

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This is a guest post by Trina Isakson from trinaisakson.com. User experience*: A person’s perceptions and responses that result from the use or anticipated use of a product, system, or service* [*ahem* YOUR BLOG!] *Reference: ISO 9241-210: International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Designing  your blog or website can be fun – choosing a theme, picking images, [...]

9 Stylish WordPress Themes to Make Your Blog Stand Out in Your Niche

Ever walk into a party and see someone there wearing the exact same outfit as you? Always a bummer. All that time you spent getting dressed to impress, and here’s someone who looks just like you (clothes-wise, at least). Blogging can be the same way. You spend so much time creating great content to build [...]

No, You Don’t Need a Blog AND a Website

A lot of independent consultants ask me if they need both a blog AND a website. I always say NO. I actually suggest that you use a platform that can serve as both your blog and website because this method allows you to build your personal brand and sell your services at the same time. How? [...]

10 Free WordPress Themes from Woo Themes

It’s no secret that I love Woo Themes. For those of you that may want to see how awesome they are without having to shell out $70 for a premium theme, Woo Themes currently offers 10 free ones that you might want to test drive on your blog. You should go check out all 10, [...]

Canvas Theme Review: Professional, Highly Customizable and Usable Right Out of the Box

I love finding new themes to test out on my blogs to see if I want to give them a fresh new look or improve upon what I already have. Early on, I fell in love with everything WooThemes, because they are all very easy to use. You just upload them to your WordPress dashboard [...]