Tag Archive: blogs

Less Is More: The Cat’s Eye Writer Blog Makeover

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See how just a few simple design changes can make your aging blog look shiny and new again.

Blogger’s Rehab: A Remote, Old Movies and Too Much Time

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Recovering from a broken wrist, Cat’s Eye Writer rediscovers three old movies that would make perfect remakes with bloggers in starring roles.

Reader Appreciation Part II: CatsEyeWriter’s Spotlight on 3 Blogs

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On CatsEyeWriter Reader Appreciation Day, three bloggers who are on the right track.

What I Found Out on My Top 10 Blogger Tour

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Learn how reading diverse blogs can make you a better blogger.

5 Ways to Pull Your Blog Visitors Into Your Content

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Are you losing blog visitors before they read your content? How to keep them on your blog.

Why Your Blog Doesn’t Need an Audience of Thousands

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To be successful, your blog does not need an audience of thousands. Find out what it does need.

5 Reasons Your Excellent Blog Content Isn’t Getting You Subscribers

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Is your blog design holding your excellent content hostage? Learn simple ways to make your content and design work together. And enter to win a blog design and set-up package.

Best of 2009 Copywriting Clichés: Tips For Killer, Rockstar Writers Who Don’t Want to Suck

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I love my readers. You challenge me all the time. A smart, inquisitive bunch you are. Soon after I hit “publish” on last week’s post, I heard from some of you. “Don’t just tell me how to wake up an old blog post,” you said. “Show me.” Okay. That’s a fair request. I went fishing through my old posts….

5 Ways the Right Photo Can Get You More Blog Readers

If you are like me, your blog posts take some time. Sometimes lots of time. I’ll toss a topic around, let it marinate. Even start writing and abandon it because I’m not feeling particularly passionate about it. So by the time I’m finished, I want to be finished. I want to get it out of my brain…

Just Say ‘No’: Why You Shouldn’t Have a Blog

Bob and I have taught our Savvy Blogging workshop long enough to recognize a certain person. You may recognize her, too. In fact, it may be you. Class before last, a student who had been very quiet throughout the session came up to Bob afterward. She wore a deep frown. Bob was lost in thought himself. Wonder what…

Too Many Blogs, Too Many Posts?: Busy Readers and Fatigued Writers

Where is it written that blogging is rewarding only when you post 5-7 times a week? The experts tell us that more is always better. But I’ve never been convinced. Since I started this blogging thing, I’ve subscribed to six of my favorite blogs. They range from daily posts to once a week, 1-2 times…

Social Media Marketing: Are You Lurking, or Just Listening?

I listened in on a great discussion last week. (Hmmm…or was I a lurker?) It started at Copyblogger.com. Guest blogger, ad executive Bob Hoffman, compared web marketing to marketing on TV: ‘people with stuff yelling at people with money.’ He was talking about the one-way, non-interactive web marketing model. But is social media marketing really…