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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

ProBlogger

One of the best things I ever did when I started my main blog today, Digital Photography School, is to create avatars, one of the best things that you can do. Gradually over time, I began to deepen my avatars. If you want to answer worksheets to help you work through creating avatars, it’s there.

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216: How to Create a Style Guide for Your Blog (and Why You Should)

ProBlogger

I started blogging in 2002, 2004 for ProBlogger, of course things have changed. Ideally, what you want to create is some kind of avatar or persona or reader profile for your blog. Include a sentence or two about who is reading your blog, and maybe refer to the avatar if you’ve done that exercise. Enjoy this podcast?

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PB167: My Million Dollar Blog Post (and How Procrastination Almost Stopped me Writing It)

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I had people emailing me and saying the thing that you got off your someday list were things like starting a blog, creating an avatar for your audience, diversifying your income streams by adding a new income stream, running a challenge for your readers, moving to your own domain or server, getting off Blogspot onto WordPress.

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PB167: My Million Dollar Blog Post? (and How Procrastination Almost Stopped me Writing It)

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PB167: How Procrastination Stopped Me Writing a Million Dollar Blog Post (and how I overcame it)

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213: Blogging and Content Marketing: 10 Things To Know

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In 2004, blogging had become a part-time job. In 2004, I started ProBlogger. ProBlogger, when I started in 2004, it was a blog about making money from blogging. That was quite a controversial thing to write about in 2004 because blogging was seen as a very pure medium. In fact, it almost became a full time job.

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Yvonne DiVita, BlogPaws, Lipsticking - I joined in 2004 and it gave me immediate results. Before I was blogging in 2004, I was already writing a lot for eMarketer (my full-time job), and then started contributing to MediaPost. Barbara Giamanco - @BarbaraGiamanco Linkedin Began blogging 2004 (USA). Guess who won? ~