Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

These are all extremely lengthy projects. In an online world, such projects are not exactly commonplace. I thought I’d share my personal method for organizing much longer projects just in case one of you gets hit up tomorrow for a ghostwriting project. Up to now, how have you been organizing your big projects?

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The Creative Penn

MAY 29, 2023

In the intro, writing and publishing across multiple genres [Ask ALLi ]; Pilgrimage and solo walking [Women Who Walk ]; My live webinars on using AI tools as an author ; Cowriting with ChatGPT: AI-Powered Storytelling by J. Just in case people don't know you— Tell us a bit more about how you got into writing and publishing.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 9, 2022

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. In fact one of the most common questions that I hear from bloggers is: “How do I get my readers to interact with me?” When I launched dPS in 2006, I launched it without comments being activated on the blog.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 24, 2022

This tip fits into the ‘it’s not rocket science’ category of blogging tips (as do many blog tips) – however as simple as it sounds I regularly see bloggers falling into the trap of talking ‘AT’ readers rather than blogging in a conversational voice. Run Projects and Challenges.

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ProBlogger

MAY 16, 2013

Recently I had opportunity to sit with a small group of Pre-Bloggers – people about to start their first blogs. At Least 3-5 Posts Already Published. 5-10 Posts Ready to Publish in Drafts. Instead I was so excited about starting ProBlogger that I published 40 posts in the first 10 or so days!

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Men With Pens

JUNE 3, 2012

My blog posts, articles, and writing projects have all benefited from my fiction writing experience – that means I’m better at communicating with people and clients who bring me income. How to get a publishing deal. Usually, writing a book isn’t quite enough to get a publishing contract.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Written by Taylor - 39 Comments This discussion we’ve been having about whether bloggers should get paid for their work is fascinating, and I think it’s pretty great that the whole MwP community here has been so level-headed and thoughtful about it. To hear them tell it, bloggers who don’t give it away have turned positively abusive.

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ProBlogger

AUGUST 7, 2017

How to Overcome 5 Blogger Obstacles. The bloggers interviewed on stage: Tsh Oxenreider. Further Listening and Reading on 5 Obstacles Bloggers Face (And How to Get Over Them). 5 Obstacles Bloggers Face (And How to Get Over Them) slides. Episode 83 Battling Blogger’s Block – Where do you get Stuck? Amy Porterfield.

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Men With Pens

JULY 1, 2012

The underrated solution: publish your own digital flipbook. Readers have shown that they enjoy the medium, but thus far digital flipbooks haven’t yet reached their full potential as a means for bloggers to interest their audiences. Customize the digital project on the site with live links, ads, meta tags, branding, etc.

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Income Diary

APRIL 2, 2024

Brin is working on other, more personal projects that reach beyond Google.Brin and Page are trying to help solve the world’s energy and climate problems at Google’s philanthropic arm, Google.org, which invests in the alternative energy industry to find wider sources of renewable energy. 5 Sergey Brin: Founder of Google is worth $136.6

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

The Guardian points to statistics showing the amount of blogs started by teens has halved since 2006, and massively declined among millennial. So what does this mean for you, the blogger? Pull together resources with other bloggers to create awesome products like free webinars or documents. But could blogging actually be dying?

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Men With Pens

APRIL 28, 2011

Here are three examples: Own your brand: There are a lot of free blog tools and publishing platforms — Blogger, WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, TypePad… the list goes on and on. It’s easy to remember and show your prospects that you’re serious, you mean business, and you don’t need a free publishing platform to get by.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 25, 2013

Day after day you publish posts only to have them greeted by…. In fact one of the most common questions that I hear from bloggers is: “How do I get my readers to interact with me?” When I launched dPS in 2006 I launched it without comments being activated on the blog.

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ProBlogger

MARCH 27, 2013

This tip fits into the ‘it’s not rocket science’ category of blogging tips (as do many blog tips) – however as simple as it sounds I regularly see bloggers falling into the trap of talking ‘AT’ readers rather than blogging in a conversational voice. Run Projects and Challenges.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

On ProBlogger we have had the job board since 2006. Back in 2002 when I first started blogging, and then over the next couple years started to make money for my blogs, the first question I would almost always be asked when I say to someone I ’ m a blogger. His brother actually was a blogger who wanted to go full time.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

ProBlogger Earnings Poll Results – April 2006. Case Study – How One Blogger Used a Blog Post, SlideShare Deck, Lead Magnet, Email Sequence and a Webinar to Earn Over $28,000. Bloggers to Watch in 2017. 15 Project Ideas to Spark Your Creativity. 5 Ridiculous SEO Myths Every Blogger Should Ignore. Research Results.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 8, 2010

FreeMind helps you to keep track of your projects using notes with links in what is called the knowledge base. WiseMapping You can create free mind maps with this application from anywhere and publish them to share with others. Nozbe This is a web-based time and project management app that helps you get things done.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 25, 2010

You want to get it out of the way so you can start your writing project. Tweet about your writing project. 5 Ways to Trim the Fat from Your Next Project Reply --Deb ( @__Deb ) April 25, 2010 at 12:43 pm Oh, this is just hilarious. I find this easier then setting myself a deadline for the individual project. Just relax.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

And you can become visible by getting involved in your professional community, attending trade association meetings, entering industry contests and award shows, writing articles, giving speeches, publishing an informative blog , generating news about your business, and staying in touch with former clients.

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ProBlogger

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In 2006, at 17, I started a blog about marketing which was very successful from launch. In fact, the first blog post I published was linked to by 4 of the Technorati Top 100 at the time, and I felt like I was on my way to joining the ranks of A-list bloggers. A Guest Post by Glen Allsopp from ViperChill.

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Men With Pens

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

You were supposed to deliver this project at 5pm and you’re almost finished but… A new email comes in. Hire yourself, and assign yourself a project. Pick a project that will help further your success. I set a date to get it done and treated it like a client project. Emails bombard you. It’s a rush.

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ProBlogger

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In order to do so, I want to share a case study of how I took my own photography blog from a single author blog, publishing 3 posts a week, to a blog that now has around 50 writers, and I don’t write anything. Most bloggers start out blogging as single author blogs and many remain that way. Compress to smaller transcript view.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 15, 2010

Charlie Gilkey has a great post showing how various bloggers have developed and honed their writing style over the years: Becoming Yourself and Growing Your Blog. If you let weeks slip by without writing or without working on that one project that really interests you, find half a day each week when you can really dig into your writing.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 13, 2010

I’ve turned down a few projects because I knew they were scams or they used unethical tactics. As a rule, I can work for about 3 hours on one project before getting a little loopy, so I move on to something else in the afternoon. James: Think back to a project when you’d done a really great job – an awesome job.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

While total writers’ block may be a reality for some individuals, for most of us we’re just stuck on a particular project. If you write for a living, you may well end up writing on projects that aren’t exactly thrilling to you. If you want to publish what you’ve written, you’re just a few clicks away.

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ProBlogger

JUNE 26, 2019

It highlights my journey as a blogger and areas where you can evolve your own blog and online business. Spend time with other bloggers, online creators, and entrepreneurs to workshop your blog and business. Jeff Goins will present this year’s keynote titled, Finding Your Voice as a Blogger. Nicole is there as well.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

You’ll work on a wide variety of projects for lots of different clients. You have to find a way to generate leads and close deals to get the paying projects. You will find yourself juggling multiple projects and clients. I love this blog and now I love the guest bloggers too… Laya Bajpai´s last blog.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We’re bloggers. Support Sweatshop Labor I don’t think bloggers and writers realize the mixed messages they’re giving the world, and I don’t think bloggers realize what they’re doing to themselves. 106 Responses to “Are Bloggers Creating Their Own Sweatshop?&# Time to think about the retirement fund.&#

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Men With Pens

JULY 11, 2010

And sadly, not many bloggers ask them. Here’s a thought: What if that dropping readership, that dwindling traffic and that lack of discussion lets you invest your time in better projects, ones that help you get closer to your goals? Have all the posts you’ve written been worth it? Is the strategy working out as expected?

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Men With Pens

JULY 25, 2010

It’s great that blogs let people voice opinions and share them with others, but I think bloggers could use a good dose come-back-down-to-earth with a dash of humble tossed in. I’m a firm believer that even with more and more bloggers cropping up, only the best will rise to the top. Not thought leaders. I hope not.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have to keep accepting these projects!” Hope is Fading Fast” Obama T-shirt Reply Dean Rieck ( @DeanRieck ) November 25, 2009 at 9:50 am I used to work in the publishing industry and would put in 48-hour days. Even after I decide I have all my projects lined up for the month, I still want to accommodate them. But I have to!”

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Men With Pens

JULY 21, 2010

If folks want to be published and paid, you have to keep climbing the mountain even if you get rejected. I did NaNo in 2007, thinking of doing it again this year, depending what stage my other writing projects are at. GET IT PUBLISHED!! I write hard hitting opinion columns for a newspaper as well as self-revealing essays.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

Should bloggers start charging for content? So here are a few of the things we can do, as bloggers, to address this issue – and many more issues we all face together. I think there are tons of monetization models (and one of my projects is figuring out the essential monetization patterns for info products.) And we should.

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Men With Pens

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

The Unspoken Goal Shared By All Admit it or not, but pretty much everyone who begins the task of writing of a novel has the same ultimate objective in mind – to publish the damn thing. Because your publishing dream (again, very much like being a parent) is a serious and worthy goal. And that’s a shame. So How Do You Get There?

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Men With Pens

JUNE 6, 2010

Power Friday – Week 13 Reply Jesse ( @jesseblayne ) June 7, 2010 at 9:02 am My ‘voice’ is the one that brings me to tears when I’m about to hit the publish button. The process feels herky jerky, and I don’t get that surge of feeling right before I hit publish. Todd´s last blog. Enjoy their styles.

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Men With Pens

JUNE 30, 2010

Even as an introverted writer I do get “out there&# quite a lot…I’m a writer, editor and publisher…but I realize that I get edgy if I’ve had too much social interaction and make sure I schedule alone time right after an interview, a party, conference, etc., to recharge. Powered by frugal

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Men With Pens

APRIL 27, 2010

Far too often are articles published (not this one of course) that are written on the back of some bad juju. Again this post was really very good at highlighting this point and I hope that some of the people who do have massive audiences really should think before they publish something written in angst. Chris Mower´s last blog.

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