Post Overview
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Expression
1 year ago+16 16 0Now is Your Time As a Creator To Start a Brand
Build a media company that one day can sell a product or service. But most important, serve the ones that are interested in your ideas.
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How-to
2 years ago+23 23 0SEO content strategy that took us from 0 to 100k monthly visits in 6 months
Learn the SEO content strategy that focuses on solving customer pain points and spurred our growth to +25,000 signups.
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Expression
3 years ago+14 14 0Casey Newton on Leaving ‘The Verge’ for Substack and the Future of Tech Journalism
Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format
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Expression
3 years ago+11 11 0Write Without Fear, Edit Without Mercy
Punch the damn keys. I mean it! Don’t think, just write! Rummage through your soul for the things that hurt, that count, that make you joyful, remorseful, bitter, angry, hopeful, and hopeless.
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3 years ago+8 8 0How to Stop Caring and Start Posting
Everybody would be so much happier if they focused on their passion as a career path. Instead, so many of us work jobs we hate and then use our passion as an escapism from the real world. If you were to repurpose that time consuming your passion and ...
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Expression
3 years ago+9 9 0These Ten Tips Are All You Need to Be Successful as a Blogger
Most of the advice that you find on this blog, on our patreon, in my book, it’s all simple, straightforward, and what you’d call common sense.
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Expression
3 years ago+5 5 0Blogging Mindset: Reciprocity
Imagine you’d just decide to send out a lot of Christmas cards early in the month of December — to complete strangers. What would happen? Nothing? Maybe a few confused phone calls or letters? Most likely you’d receive a great deal of Christmas car ...
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Expression
3 years ago+12 12 0How To Break Through Barriers To Creativity
Although it feels lonely to struggle with creative inspiration, you're not alone. Check out ideas from three inspirational role models.
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Expression
3 years ago+16 16 0The Secret to Innovative Work: Be Different, Not Better
Often, we think the way to stand out from the pack is to be better. A better way to become world-class at what you do is to change the game completely.
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Expression
4 years ago+10 10 0How to Increase Blog Traffic Using Social Media Tricks
If you’re willing to leave social media confusion behind, you can learn proven social media tactics to increase blog traffic. Here's how.
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Expression
4 years ago+15 15 0Lydia Davis: Ten of My Recommendations for Good Writing Habits
Adapted from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One. * The following are just my personal pieces of advice.
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Expression
4 years ago+12 12 0Blogging is All About Adding Value to People’s Lives
Believe it or not, blogging is all about adding value to other people’s lives, and in this post I am going to explain how powerful this model truly is.
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Expression
4 years ago+11 11 0The Truth about Blog Post Length
Some bloggers suffer from what I like to call verbal narcissism. Only it’s in writing. Anyway… To avoid this awful fate, you probably try to keep your posts short, sometimes writing series of blog posts. After all, you don’t want to scare away reade ...
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4 years ago+16 16 0Blogging for Busy People: How to Blog Despite Having a Full-Time Job
Finding time to blog is something we all struggle with. Whether you are just starting out, whether blogging is just a hobby, or your blog is a part time job – finding time to write is a challenge.
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Expression
4 years ago+2 2 08 Best Ways To Gain Followers For Your Blog
Traffic! It’s one of those words that I do not like much, for it almost begs us to forget that those stats represent actual people. But… but… I know that one of the main reasons we blog is to be read by other people, so this makes it important to ga ...
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Expression
4 years ago+8 8 0Ten Lessons from Ten Years of Blogging: We're all Bozos on this Bus
Blogging. I've been doing it for 10 years! Here are ten things I've learned about blogging. Nobody knows the rules, Because they keep changing
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Expression
4 years ago+10 10 0Stress and the Writer: To All Things a Season
Stress is a part of life, but it can be particularly hard on writers, sapping our creativity and making it impossible to do our jobs. Jana Oliver returns to the lecture hall today to share her story and offer tips on what to do when stress keeps you ...
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Expression
4 years ago+37 37 0 x 1We Must Prepare for the Next Pandemic
When the next pandemic strikes, we’ll be fighting it on two fronts. The first is the one you immediately think about: understanding the disease, researching a cure and inoculating the population. The second is new, and one you might not have thought ...
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How-to
4 years ago+6 6 0Want More Traffic? Here’s How.
Sometimes I ask myself if there’s more to this blogging thing than being addicted to traffic. You start a blog, or a YouTube channel, create a podcast, whatever your passion may be. You put some content out there, and a few people stop by and compli ...
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How-to
4 years ago+13 13 0How to Break Out of the Busyness Paradox (Because We All Can Get Stuck)
Work smarter, not harder.