or relatively new writers like myself, the excitement and enthusiasm for writing can quickly change from ecstasy and intense delight to pure drab nonsense. At a point, you may begin to ask yourself, “is this even worth it?” or, “why am I fooling myself on the internet and social media?” If you are feeling that way, you are not alone.

Medium.com, the publishing platform founded by Twitter co-founder Ev Williams, is now rewarding writers who publish high quality stories through its Partner program with direct cash bonuses.

Fifteen years ago, soldiers started to blog their way through Iraq, leading to questions about how to wage war in the internet age — and a few demotions, too.

Kara Mae Harris hopes to archive every local cookbook.

One of the most-read pieces I’ve written here remains my entreaty “Professors Start Your Blogs,” which is now 12 years old but might as well have been written in the Victorian age. It’s quaint. In 2006, many academics viewed blogs through the lens of LiveJournal and other teen-oriented, oversharing diary sites, and it seemed silly to put more serious words into that space. Of course, as I wrote that blog post encouraging blogging for more grown-up reasons, Facebook and Twitter were ramping up, and all of that teen expression would quickly move to social media.

There’s a good reason why 53% of marketers in the USA say that blogging is going to be their top content marketing priority in 2018.

The explore/exploit idea is especially relevant in content marketing. As we’ve written before, the thing that makes a blog great is usually the thing that makes it hard to replicate. Creating a formula that attracts readers requires a lot of exploring and near-perfect execution.

I am one guy with a web app which makes $14k per year. Is having a blog alongside my website clever marketing or just a waste of my time?

Today’s post and podcast interview is potentially a game-changer for many of you. Thomas Kuegler is a Medium master who stops by to dive into the potentially HUGE benefits of publishing original content on Medium, as well as simply re-publishing your EXISTING blog posts!

Tickets for the event may be sold out, but you can watch the event from anywhere thanks to a free livestream. The stream starts today and covers both the E-Commerce and developers workshops.

All bloggers are writers, but not all writers are bloggers. That’s a tough reality for many people who want to produce content online because people assume that to be one is to be the other. But there’s far more to blogging than just being a good writer.

I almost gave up writing back in 2011. My blog was full of musings I’d published for five years. It felt good to do it. And I hoped someone would care. Outside a handful of friends, no one did. So I quit. It bothered me all night every night until I made a decision that would change my future as a writer.

If you’ve been on Twitter at all in the last half decade, then you’ve likely heard of Buffer. The social media sharing and scheduling app has been a catalyst for a new paradigm in social media marketing. It allows users to find content or schedule messages to be shared into the future.

Editing is a vital part of writing. Without it, we end up with a bunch of incohesive and confusing sentences that make little to no sense.

It takes courage to create.

WordPress now powers 30 percent of the web, according to data from web technology survey firm W3Techs. This represents a 5 percentage point increase in nearly two and a half years, after WordPress …

Life can feel pointless at times. It can feel like the things we do don’t matter or make a difference in the end. So many of the things we do are mundane, after all. Our days are filled with chores and repetitive tasks and shifts at the same old jobs. It’s hard not to feel like we’re doing the same old thing, day after day like we’re some kind of hamster on a wheel, struggling to escape a stagnant and boring old routine.

Many of you are amazed at how much content I publish every month. I wanted to take you behind the scenes as once you understand my strategy, you won’t be that amazed and you’ll probably be able to do the same yourself (and get better results than me). Before we continue, I’m not a professional writer. I’m an amateur. This means if I can do it, so can you.

It’s data. It’s practice. It’s repetition. It’s figuring out what sort of content people WANT to read — these three amazing writers just had different ways of going about it.

We have all been there. You spend time and money creating short-and-sweet content for your targeted audience; you drink copious cups of coffee and push out all other daily noise to give it your all. When your gem is complete, you click “publish.” But your content doesn’t seem to generate any leads. Even worse, it goes unnoticed.