Word magic.
To begin your journey to an income-generating blog, you need a blog topic, as well as your special slant on the topic. With luck, it will be a slant which is unique to you. Blog topics can be divided into “niches”, that is into sub-topic areas which interest a small segment of the population. You can divide almost any topic … Read more
You’ve got a blog, but where’s your blogging income? Back in 2017, I ran a Team Up group, mentoring writers who want to make money blogging. They were shocked when I pushed them to create a blogging income immediately, before they’d created content. One student, who was new to the training, already had a blog. Sort of. He’d been “developing” … Read more
Want to make money blogging? You can. Around the world, hundreds of thousands of bloggers do it. That said, there are pitfalls. Back when I started blogging, in the late 1990s (long, long ago, in internet terms) “blogging” was considered nerdy and weird by anyone who’d heard of it. Few had: dictionary publisher Merriam-Webster made “blog” their term of the … Read more
Looking for blogging tips to improve your blog? No matter how much you enjoy blogging, it’s easy to put it off. It’s no secret that I adore blogging; I created my first blogs in the late 1990s. Nevertheless I do procrastinate. Here’s a quick solution for that, if you find yourself procrastinating too. Blogging tips: spend five minutes on your … Read more
For freelancers, time is money: your money if you’re charging by the project, clients’ money if you charge by the hour. You need writing tools to easily switch text between formats. One of my freelance writing students recently talked about the hassle of converting her content between HTML, MS Word, PDF etc for her clients. “Are you using a Markdown … Read more