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Blogging for money

On October 19, 2010 By Sarah

Do you blog for money? Serious question… I wonder if you have sat down and quantified what that actually means? Image by Getty Images via @daylife I had been blogging for a year before I realised I was blogging for money and 2 years before I realised I was a professional blogger – I earned a living from the blog. Of course I need to earn more, so I can go and live disgracefully somewhere hot (but without spiders). I hear one of the best tips that came from Blog [...]

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3 blogs ideas for businesses (the good, the bad & the ugly)

On October 16, 2010 By Sarah

Quotes Song titles Movies Bet you weren’t expecting those! And the title takes on a whole new meaning now doesn’t it! So if you are stuck for a blog topic have a quick think around a quote that is often said in your business or a quote that inspires you in some way and tie it back into your business. You only have to look on twitter to see a whole raft of quotes being tweeted out. As Howard Kandel once said He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a [...]

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Blog Writing: faster, faster

On October 14, 2010 By Sarah

One of the most frequent things I hear is people have not got the time to write blogs. Like they are writing War and Peace or something, or something on the Times bestseller list. Perspective is important, if you were Einstein blogging about a theoretical breakthrough then time is needed to make sure you get all the facts / evidence in place and onto the screen of paper. Are you Einstein? No? Neither am I. We are not Leo Tolstoy either so we have time to write a blog, truly we do, it’s not a 500 page epic. Sad but [...]

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The benefits to multi-author blogging

On October 12, 2010 By Sarah

Last week I wrote about how setting up Birds on the Blog , and 5 other multi author sites had led me and the Blogmistress to becoming experts when it comes to collaborative blogs. Collaborative blogs can also be known as multi author blogs. In the comments of How to set up a collaborative blog Morag asked what I actually get from it as there is very little money in them. Ok, let’s dispel that myth. There is money. It’s not enough to give up my day job, retire disgracefully [...]

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How to set up a collaborative blog

On October 5, 2010 By Sarah

Recently I realised I had, with the Blogmistress, become expert on collaborative blogging, also known as multi author blogs. We have half a dozen growing group blogs under our belts and they work well, both for us and for the bloggers involved. A collaborative blog is a blog with many authors around a central theme and that central theme is the framework that holds the blog together. The first thing needed when setting up a collaborative blog is your central topic, so have a good brainstorm on that – this will help you when you [...]

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Retention email marketing for dummies book (free)

On August 2, 2010 By Sarah

Well I guess the title says it all really EmailVision Ltd are offering a free PDF version of retention email marketing for dummies. If you are a fan of the Dummies books or looking into email marketing and how it works, drop by and take a look. Enjoy success with email marketing <—- link to the page with more details. Why send emails out when you have a blog? Simple really, well, maybe not. Where does your traffic come from if Google kicks you out for some reason? How do you reach your customers and educate them? [...]

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Africa Rocks…

On July 30, 2010 By Sarah

Back in June, Ida Horner approached us to see if we wanted to do ‘Africa on the Blog’. Knowing how much the Blogmistress loves a challenge she swiftly set to work on setting up Africa on the Blog (why change a winning formula ). Given the brief of , colour it like Africa, she came up with a golden brown design on the Studiopress framework that is consistent theme on the ‘On the blog’ sites. It’s visually stunning. Ida in the mean time started recruiting bloggers – please welcome @naomiestment @AshantiGirl @taluta @Chocolat_a_toi @jkainja @TonyBurkson @STM95 @sportinkenya @Chiira [...]

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Bloggers wanted – all levels, many topics – step forward!

On July 1, 2010 By Babs

It’s a privilege to work with and on a number of collaborative blogs, such as the “on the blog” brands – with Birds on the Blog proving to be a huge hit already, especially as Sarah only launched this in January! The Blokes on the Blog soon followed and has promise, and then we have a new Kent Business Buzz blog along the same idea. To build on these and new projects, we need more bloggers. You don’t need to be a professional writer, indeed we love encouraging and enabling those of you [...]

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3 blogs ideas for businesses (the good, the bad & the ugly)

Blog Writing: faster, faster

The benefits to multi-author blogging

Retention email marketing for dummies book (free)

Africa Rocks…

Bloggers wanted – all levels, many topics – step forward!

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