Writing great blog post titles doesn't have to be hard. Here are five frameworks to help you write better titles for every article you create.

If you don’t have something to say, document. It’s the advice I give to my entire community. Create a podcast, start a blog, do a Q&A show. All of it works.

I have never suffered from writer’s block for lack of ideas. If anything, I get too many ideas and then a sort of a bottleneck effect happens, when all sorts of ideas become lodged in my mind and I have trouble disgorging them. I call it my Christmas lights effect. For me, it’s like taking your last year’s Christmas lights out of the box and finding them all knotted up together, in one giant ball of lights. Then you have to untangle the entire thing, it takes forever, there is much cursing and, in the end, the whole thing might not work, but there are many little light bulbs on that wire.

Which hard skill do recent college grads lack the most? In 2016, PayScale asked employers this question. The top response was “writing proficiency.” Wow. Our education system teaches few practical skills, but it does emphasize writing. So what gives? Incompetent teachers? Unteachable students? Actually, the problem for many college graduates is having absorbed their academic training all too well. The challenge for them is to unlearn the bad writing habits picked up from 16-plus years of school.

We’ve all read the posts about morning routines, productivity hacks and success rituals. The issue is these things have little meaning for us unless we decide they have meaning. In fact, we can read and read, listen and listen, and watch and watch but unless the message speaks to our heart, we do not change. In fact, in many cases, we find ourselves rebelling at the ideas presented to us. Almost as if the person describing how to get ahead really knew our hearts and was writing directly to us.

2018's comprehensive guide all successful bloggers want to keep secret.

When Apple first launched the iPhone in 2007, it was a tightly controlled experience. Demand far exceeded supply. You could only buy the devices at Apple and AT&T stores. There was no App Store and therefore no third-party apps. Things have changed a little in the last eleven years. Today, you can buy an iPhone at Costco or Walmart. That was inconceivable a decade ago.

There is a time and place for subtlety. That time and place is not the internet in 2018. I’ve been making content online for around 20 years now, give or take. I started before I was 10. In that time, I’ve seen the streams and channels and audiences grow to an insane number of people, online and searching for content at every second of every day. It’s gone from a few black and white channels to full colour HD so fast it can make your head spin. We are living in a time of noise, of colour, of violent, fit-inducing stimulation, where the extreme of any opinion, any position, any vertical, and any content format is just a wink away.

WordPress has taken down a handful alt-right blogs, according to several complaints from affected blog owners and readers who claim the sites were removed from WordPress.com, despite not being in violation of the company’s Terms of Service.

Little professionalism "leaks" in content are errors that undermine the content's authority, squander audience interest, and detract from business goals.

Do you want to be a great writer? To create stunning works of art that people can’t stop reading? To craft brilliant articles that touch hearts and change lives? Maybe being a great writer has been your dream since you were barely old enough to scribble on the walls in spaghetti sauce. Or maybe you’ve been trying for years to get your writing career to “take off,” with no luck. If so, you’ve probably already imbibed lots of writing advice. Everything from “write every day!” to “Sit down at the keyboard and bleed.” Forget all that. The key to writing well isn’t to focus on writing. It’s to focus on your writing system.

Five steps to get from idea to polished result.

I’ve been writing seriously on Medium for about a year. I’ve written about 100 posts since then. I’ve also gained 25,000+ new email subscribers. I’ve been writing for 5 years. After first 4.5 years, I had essentially nothing to show for it.

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A behind-the-scenes look into Jenny's first year of blogging, including traffic strategies that worked (and some that didn't).

Giving and receiving feedback is an important part of being a writer---or any kind of artist, really. But that doesn’t mean it’s always fun.

Writing high-quality articles takes a ton of time, but sadly many high quality articles won’t even get read. According to Copyblogger, 8 out of 10 people will read headlines but only 2 out of 10 will actually click on it and read the rest. To maximize your effectiveness with blogging or content marketing, you really have to write amazing headlines that people feel compelled to click.

Apply these three elements to your content, even if you aren't a "great writer" (yet), to produce useful work that will serve your audience.

Exactly how to get the most important areas of blogging done! (think *blog management* hacks) Steal these time management tips and go from hot mess to completely under control in no time! (#7 is my favorite)! Then you will be a pro at management your blog! Download our free blog management spreadsheet!

Mastering content creation and distribution for your brand on social media is a difficult and long process. But, in an effort to provide you guys with as much value as possible, I’m going to help speed up that process and show you how I do it on a daily basis for my personal brand. Shared below is a powerpoint that my team and I created to help empower and potentially completely shift the way that you think about producing and distributing content online for your brand.