The secret to a great blog? Content. Oh man… sorry. I know you were hoping for some nifty trick, an easy tip, a no-effort technique or some earth shattering revelation that would finally (and instantly) make you a great blogger. Haven’t you figured out those things DON’T EXIST? Content, content, content. I’ve said this a thousand times, and I’ll say ten thousand more. Why? Because this is the essence of a...

One of the most common questions I get is “how do I get more readers, more visits, and grow loyalty to my blog?” There are many ways and I could write a book about it. Maybe I will. But for now, I want to give you six things that EVERY blogger can do right now to build traffic and loyalty. First, a little lesson about blogging. There are gagillions of blogs. Content and entertainment is absolutely in jaw dropping abundance....

Most blogs are “failures”, if not now, they will be… that’s just a fact. They end up stale, boring, inactive and neglected. The two most common reasons for failure are 1) lack of action, and 2) lack of perseverance. Lack of Action What I mean by lack of action can be defined by degrees: too little action, too conservative of action, constant procrastination or no action at all. So what is action? Writing. Creating...