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What is Roblox? Everything You Need to Know About the Social Gaming Platform

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However, users can make purchases within games to buy upgrades, boosts, clothing, accessories, skins, and more. Roblox was created by David Baszucki and Erik Cassel, two engineers who began working on the prototype for the platform in 2004. Today, there are about as many users in Asia as there are in the U.S. and Canada.

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246: 9 Ways to Accelerate the Growth of Your Blog

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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)

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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. Both of these you can buy.

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

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That’s the way I buy Vanessa a christmas present. It was actually a piece of content that I thought about writing way back when I started ProBlogger in 2004. I started ProBlogger back in 2004 because I wanted to read a blog about blogging and how to make money blogging but no one was writing that blog at the time.

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

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That’s the way I buy Vanessa a christmas present. It was actually a piece of content that I thought about writing way back when I started ProBlogger in 2004. I started ProBlogger back in 2004 because I wanted to read a blog about blogging and how to make money blogging but no one was writing that blog at the time.

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

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That’s the way I buy Vanessa a christmas present. It was actually a piece of content that I thought about writing way back when I started ProBlogger in 2004. I started ProBlogger back in 2004 because I wanted to read a blog about blogging and how to make money blogging but no one was writing that blog at the time.

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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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