How many times has this happened to you? You find a blog that accepts guest posts, and you want to get published on it. You work your butt off coming up with an awesome idea and putting it onto paper. After several hours, you’re satisfied. Your post is good, and you know it. You spend an hour on the pitch, working up the courage to hit that ‘Send’ button. And then… Nothing. No response. Or maybe...
How to Enrage and Engage Your Blog Readers With Purpose
Key Takeaways Readers are accustomed to hearing their own opinions reinforced in blogs they follow. Many pros advise novice bloggers to give readers exactly what they want. If you always write this way, you run the risk of becoming a drone, blending in with the masses shoveling the same old stuff. Power influencers and innovators push for change. Creating cognitive dissonance in your blog can...
Top writing myths that motivate and sabotage
The lure of the writing life I’ll bet you want to be a writer. Or, you want to be a successful, wealthy author. You probably have a positive goal, and I’m sure you dream about the writing life. But what did people say to you when you indicated that you wanted to be a writer?My mother first asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up when I was five or six. I was ignorant, not...
10 Essential writing lessons from Albert Einstein quotes
Intimate encounters Do you know any dead strangers who you consider intimate friends? People who speak to your soul from the past? I have a few.This gray, crazy haired Albert Einstein, with his giant wiry mustache and kind eyes, speaks directly to my core and his words and ideas inspire me. Not only was he a genius in physics, but also in living a noble life. I feel like I know him, like...
Advanced Blogger’s Guide: How Jump Start a Kicking Personal Brand
Consider what makes Google’s Brand so powerful. Google Doodle’s always amaze me by how creative but consistent they can be. The colors and images are radically different, but you know it’s Google. That is potent brand. I designed on an iPad app called ArtRage. Why the marketing universe revolves around brands? Do you think of yourself as a brand? Sounds demeaning, in a way...