Revolves

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Ever read Seth Godin’s blog? Just go and visit it. Seth is truly a great man. I like the way he uses “unrelated” experiences of his to give great marketing advice. Subscribe to his RSS feed, and read it daily. It’ll get your creative juices flowing.

Now, getting to the point. Subscribe to various news site’s RSS feeds. They normally have feeds arranged in categories. Always choose a broad category related to your niche.

The reason for this is, you need to be more broad minded. Continue reading “PowerBlogging – News”

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This idea source is quite different from the two I mentioned above. This should help get your creative juices flowing. Because you will now realize ways of writing posts and monetizing them like never before.

Now a days, “theme clubs” (for Content Management Systems) are very popular. Most of the time, they release a new theme for a CMS every month. And you pay a membership fee per year, which gives you access to all themes released and available during your membership period.

And many such clubs have affiliate program. And let’s assume you are a PowerAffiliate (sorry, couldn’t resist the “special effect”).

Since you like the service, you already have made a post about them a month ago.

But now what? Well, when they release a new theme, write about it! Write about how you feel it is, in your own words. Which type of sites do you think it’d be good for? Continue reading “PowerBlogging – Affiliate News”

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Many people don’t find time to blog because they spend excessive time on forums. And believe it or not, in forums lies your greatest idea source.

If you’re just a lurker, then you surely have problems expressing your opinions. But, if you post regularly, then congrats! You’re half way through.

Next time you visit a forum (like WarriorForum for the IM niche), and you hit the reply button, open your blog as well. That’s because, when you’re replying to some idea in the forum, you’re expressing your own opinion.

Your opinion is original in the sense that you’re writing what YOU FEEL. And that’s what blogging is all about. Continue reading “PowerBlogging – Forums”

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In blogging, there is just one simple rule. That is to keep blogging.

This is where more than 90% of your competition will fall off their feet. “What do I write about?”, “I don’t know how to write”, “How do you write that many posts so easily”, are the questions that keep popping out of the mouths of novice bloggers.

Their query is absolutely right. I appreciate them for that. They ask questions instead of assuming the answer. But there is one little problem. Hardly anyone gives the correct answer. Continue reading “The Importance of an Idea Source – PowerBlogging”

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Always understand every bit of what you are dealing with. Blogs are no different. I’m not going to bombard you with definitions from various dictionaries of what blogging is. I am going to explain it in simpler terms, in my own voice.

Blogs are online journals wherein entities express their opinions.

Be it a personal or a professional blog, that statement holds. You will come across spammy blogs wherein the above definition does not hold, and that’s precisely why they are unsuccessful. Continue reading “What Blogs Really Are – PowerBlogging”