Anthony Moore (Stuff Grads Like, Medium) is one of the TOP writers on Medium these days. After a career in career-counseling (meta!), Anthony and his wife opted to switch gears, ditching the full-time jobs and traveling the world (and oh yeah, blogging!). After four years and 180 subscribers, Anthony eventually focused his efforts on Medium, and promptly grew to over 16k subs and massive reach (today’s he got over 22k Medium followers as well). That’s crazy.

Warning: The 4,500 word post you’re about to read is PACKED with helpful tips and musings, resources, and proven strategies to make it in…

Learn about the history of WordPress from 2003 up till now. A project with humble beginnings now powers over 22% of the web. WordPress in history.

As I’m a developer, I love to use tools that can assist me in my writing. Over the last couple of years, I’ve created an extended list of useful resources.

In the movie classic Wall Street, young trader Bud Fox notes how life comes down to a few moments, and how meeting tycoon billionaire Gordon Gekko is one of those moments. He saw the meeting as his one chance, his one breakthrough, and in his desperation and greed, broke a law to impress GG, paying the ultimate price by the end of the movie. Bud Fox could not have been more wrong. Success is not about some breakthrough moment, nor is it about meeting a single person who will change your life. Nope.

A lot can happen in 4 years. A lot can be learned in 4 years. Here's 4 lessons in blogging from 4 years of running a writing blog.

Free lunch essentially means that “an individual or group can be provided a good or service at no cost to the individual receiving the bene­fit or to anyone else.” Obviously, as the saying goes, “there ain’t no such thing as free lunch.” Someone always has to pay, it’s just that the cost can be externalized, indirect, or in the form of an opportunity cost.

Your content path teaches new audience members what they need to know to move forward with a purchase.

For the past 100 days, I have been writing a daily blog. When I started this thing, the idea was to make myself creative, make myself push my own boundaries and find a way to break the patterns. That’s been the goal the entire time, and it’s actually worked. There’s been about 50,000 words written and published. That’s a lot.

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” — Scott Adams

You write something. Then you hear the worst sound ever.

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When I decided to write about how to drive traffic to a blog, my first thought was to create a massive list of blog promotion tactics. Honestly, that would probably generate more interest, social shares and backlinks than this post. So why aren’t I doing that? Because it wouldn’t be as helpful to you.

Why do we want our work to be perfect? How is this quest for perfection working out for us? Why do we expect our work to be good, particularly if we are new to our craft? Perfection can stop you creating, make you throw your work in the trash and tells you that you will never be good enough.

It’s really difficult to gain traction in organic search, which is why it’s painfully frustrating to watch it slip away.

So you've been convinced your blog needs a newsletter. And you now know what you're going to put in it. But how often should you send out your newsletter? Here's everything you need to know to work out the newsletter frequency that's best for you and your readers.

8 steps to build your personal brand on Twitter. A great personal brand can be built by finding the perfect balance between professional and personal.

It's been a little over 5 years since Google Reader shut down and the world of RSS readers was tossed into the junk drawer of collective memory. But, looking back on it today, I'd actually argue that RSS and Feeds as a whole never really disappeared, only the Feed Readers did.

I first got online in 1993, back when the Web had a capital letter — three, in fact — and long before irony stretched its legs and unbuttoned its flannel shirt. Back when you could really say you were surfing the net. And the first thing I did when I logged on line, every single time, for years was to load up Netscape’s What’s Cool.

8 reasons why no one reads your articles and what you can do about it.