I wrote a post this morning as part of a series at LizStrauss[dot]com. It may be of use to some readers here. It’s for folks who’ve not started blogging. Click the title to access it. Should I … [Read more...]
Choosing for Our Readers: A 5 Point Pop Quiz
It’s a Surprise Quiz! Content is king. It is the product and the service we offer to our readers. Content is what they come for. So when we look on our front page, our job is to make sure that … [Read more...]
12 Detailed Checklists to Spit Shine and Promote Your Blog
In Case You Missed It Vovo over at Business Traffic Ideas threw this idea to me. He caught it from Patrick Schaber at The Lonely Marketer who spotted the idea originated by Matt McGee over at Small … [Read more...]
12+1 Things Every Reader Wants from a How-To Article
How to Or Not How to People are always teaching each other. We show each other new and easier ways to do things. As writers we teach people what we’ve learned. As readers, they teach us new stuff. … [Read more...]
Classic Revisited: The Blog Review Checklist
Look at Your Blog as Readers Do In my first week at Successful-Blog, I wrote a Blog Review Checklist. It remains one of the most popular, most linked to, and most visited documents. As I work on the … [Read more...]
SOBCon08: A 10-Point Action Plan Checklist for a Successful and Outstanding Blog
How Biz School for Bloggers Was Born You might wonder why there was no call for speakers at SOBCon08. It was because we wanted to present some highly structured valuable content. So many bloggers … [Read more...]
Critical Skill 4: Part 4-Process Design Tool
Designing a Process Step-by-Step Use this worksheet to gather information when you’re designing a complex process as described in Critical Skill 4: Part 2-Designing a Complex Process and Critical … [Read more...]
Success in a Blink and a Blink Test
In 2005, Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book “Blink.” introduced the idea that we make make decisions about people and things almost instantaneously– long before we do the cognitive thinking about … [Read more...]
A Content Editor’s Quality Checklist
Editing for Quality It’s true that every writer needs an editor. We all know that I sure do. In textbook publishing, we say that every writer really needs two–a content editor and a copyeditor. The … [Read more...]
Successful-Blog Joins 9rules–Thanks to Our Readers
Once upon a time there was a little blog, who wanted to be Successful. It had all the right ideas. It just needed the care and feeding of great writers and great readers. It even had a cool name. It … [Read more...]