Way back last June, Ramsay Taplin published an article on Blog Tyrant entitled, "What is the Secret to Online Success? Hint: It’s Not Hard Work." I wrote a comment on that post that I keep going back to in my thoughts, one that I feel perfectly sums up my thoughts on the "secrets" to online …
CloudFlare as a godsend
We've been having some serious downtime over on our survival blog, More Than Just Surviving - literally for the past day. It's no secret - there's no perfectly reliable web host, and while we absolutely adore the one we've got right now, every so often they, like every other web host, seriously drop …
How to “Talk” on Social Media
If you're interested in learning how to talk on social media in a way that your audience will be much more responsive to, consider changing the way you promote yourself completely. Thomas asked me months ago how exactly to go about making posts on social media, as he was a little uncomfortable …
Hitting a Stride
It finally feels like we've hit a proper stride when it comes to our main survival blog, More Than Just Surviving. I used to frantically push to try to find an audience, grow our readership, and to get those page views up, but in recent days, all I have to do is have Thomas or I write a post, add in …
Part of the Reason That One Negative Comment Brings You Down…
You start to imagine: "What if other people are thinking this...?" If less than 1% of those who actually go through and read your content bother to leave a comment, how many of those silent visitors are actually thinking the very same thing as this one extremely negative person? Another 5? …
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Why I Love Blogs About Blogging
I absolutely love reading blogs about blogging. I'm a blogger after all, and I love what I do; reading blogs that talk about the kind of work that I do are not only an extension of my passion for blogging, but, I feel, partly the cause of that passion. When I first began reading blogs, I started …
