Do people remember your blog posts? Does your content have staying power? If you evoke emotions in your readers, I can guarantee that your ideas will remain firmly planted in their brain. How do you do that as a blogger? With the right photo, of course. I’ll be writing a post soon to help you…
Today’s guest post on the Cat’s Eye Writer blog comes from Ali Luke, who heads up aliventures.com. I met Ali on Twitter and both she and my other half, @bobwp, will be presenting at Blogworld in New York City in June, so I’ll get to meet her in real time. I’m also looking forward to…
I confess. I’m a bit of a recluse. A hopeless blogger geek who spends most of her day clicking away at the keyboard, oblivious to the world. I don’t mind being alone. So it makes perfect sense that I live on an island. I’m pretty sure I’ll never be a world-class speaker. Speech class in…
The passing of Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs on October 5, 2011 was a watershed moment for me. No matter which side we are on—the PC lovers or the Mac addicts—I think we all recognized the genius of this man. Do you remember Apple Computers’ 1997 Think Different ad campaign? Narrated by Richard Dreyfus, it had…
As a wordster, my favorite TV game show in the world was The $100,000 Pyramid. It started out as The $10,000 Pyramid, but, you know, with inflation and all, they had to up the ante. The best part was the final round, The Winner’s Circle. One player, with hands strapped to the chair’s arms, so…
Don’t you love it when you have a perfect storm thing going? When the new post you are starting to write is on the exact same topic you’ve been getting questions about all week? Well, it happened. You asked me what I did to grow my blog. Because I love answering your questions and because…
Write for yourself. No, you should write for your readers. Posts over 500 words will bore your readers to death. But nothing worthwhile can be tackled in a post in fewer than 1,000 words. Your posts don’t need to be interesting; just instructive. Wait. Your posts had better be interesting or your visitors will click…
Just one month ago, I would not have written this post. Because I needed a fourth social networking time suck like I needed another stray cat to show up at my door. (We have already adopted two.) But then Guy Kawasaki sent me a copy of his new digital book, What the Plus! Google+ for…
When I taught blogging workshops for writers and authors, one thing was predictable. Their eyes would always glaze over when I got to the part about building an author brand. They thought of selling out, of compromising their art, of consumer brainwashing. They had seen too many taglines, too many TV commercials—Coke (“refreshing”) and Apple…
Last weekend I hit the road—and the water—for the Whidbey Island Writer’s Conference. I have been to a bazillion conferences in my day: they were events for teachers, or direct mail copywriters, or bloggers or marketers, depending on what field I was in at the moment. They all blur together in my mind. The thought…
A couple of weeks ago, I found a new blog. New to me—but not to lots of other folks. It is the brainchild of Andrea Hurst of Andrea Hurst & Associates and supported by the talented writer and blogger Katie Flanagan. What I love about Andrea’s blog is that it melds the literary agent’s view…
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