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.

Learn the SEO content strategy that focuses on solving customer pain points and spurred our growth to +25,000 signups.

Sarah Jeong talks to Newton about the details of his deal, subscription journalism, and what makes email such a good media format

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Although it feels lonely to struggle with creative inspiration, you're not alone. Check out ideas from three inspirational role models.

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.

If you’re willing to leave social media confusion behind, you can learn proven social media tactics to increase blog traffic. Here's how.

Adapted from the essay “Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits” in Essays One. * The following are just my personal pieces of advice.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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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