Whether you need it for a high school project, part of a college course or perhaps just to practice your creativity, writing an essay is no easy task. In fact, it’s one of the hardest things to conquer for many students around the globe. Whether you’re writing purely out of pleasure, or to get a…
Does it Matter How Often You Blog?
I for one prefer to blog when I have something new to share and avoid jumping on a topic just because it’s trending or because all major bloggers are writing about it. I am not saying that I don´t follow relevant trending topics, but I’m not going to bandwagon jump if I don’t have different…
Fast Way to Grow Your Instagram Account and Get Real Followers
If you are grimly determined to become successful and make a mark on Instagram history, you probably have spent a couple of days googling how to get more followers, how to promote yourself effectively and so on. By all appearances, you came across one of two services that offer you to get a couple of…
Why Cybersecurity is Relevant to Copywriters
As a copywriter, you need to protect yourself against cybercrime. Your data is more valuable to cybercriminals than you might think, so even if you’re a freelancer and don’t think of yourself as a business owner, there’s every reason in the world to guard against becoming complacent. Client data, for example, can be used for…
The 10 Stages of Mean Blog Comments
Well, I guess I’ve “made it” as some would say. I wrote my first piece that elicited hateful comments. In fact there is now an entire comment thread on a popular website devoted to those who hate me. Horrible, evil, hateful comment after comment making absurd assertions about my character, my writing ability, my role…
5 reasons why we all need Ghost Writers
Blogging, while an engaging and entertaining experience, can also be something of a time suck. There comes a day when you realize you have lost half your day because you were sitting in front of a computer screen typing LOL as quickly as you could. Luckily, there is an easy solution to this blogging conundrum,…
How Much Self Promotion Is Too Much?
With all the social media venues these days, it can be difficult to know just how much self promotion you can get away with. Lately I´ve been coaching a few clients on using social media, and one of the most common questions that comes up is “How much can I promote my own business?” We´ve…
How to Move your Self-hosted WordPress Blog
Note: This advice applies to moving a self-hosted WordPress blog to another WordPress blog on the same host. 1. Purchase and register your new domain. If you are on WordPress.org, you can find out if your hosting companies sell domains. Mine does, but I bought my new one from GoDaddy.com and had to redirect my…
Five Reasons People Don`t Comment On Your Blog
When it comes to free blogging platforms, WordPress is the most popular one. I`m going to be doing a series starting later this week on how to use WordPress effectively and how to customize it to really make it work, but first, let`s take a look at why no one is commenting on your blog…
Using Psychology to Create Articles that Hit Home with Readers
Most of the time when we try to think of new article topics, we focus exclusively on teaching our readers how to do new skills. It’s true that most of the time people will search for your free reprint articles because they need to learn how to do something practical. But did you know that…