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Over the next week (potentially the next week and a half) ProBlogger will be in ‘guest blogging mode’. Tomorrow morning I’m heading into a local hospital for a small procedure on my wrist which will leave my left hand out of action for a week or two. It’s not carpal tunnel or RSI (I’m told it’s nothing to do with typing all day every day) and it’s unlikely to be anything serious. I’ll attempt to write a fuller post at some point on my personal

By Leo Babauta from Zen Habits. Many of the problems that many bloggers face — not drawing enough readers, not knowing what to write about, not writing well enough, not finding the time to blog — can all be solved with one solution. And that solution’s name is Passion. All of the problems mentioned above, and more, arise from forcing things. When you write about something you don’t care much about, you’re forcing it. When you sit down to write but have nothing to

Write. Edit. Write. Edit. Edit. Edit. Edit. Write. Does this sound familiar? If it doesn’t then you’re probably from Mars, because most of us drive ourselves crazy with self-editing when we write. And it’s not only when writing. We self-edit when we’re walking. When you walk on gravel, you walk differently than when you walk on grass. We self-edit when we’re talking. We choose different words and sentence structure, create different tones, and make different sounds depending on who

This week I’m featuring a short series of interviews with successful bloggers looking at a popular post on their blog and why they think it went viral. Today Vitaly Friedman from Smashing Magazine has agreed to dissect the popularity of one of their most popular posts. 1. What is the post on your blog that has had the most traffic in the last 12 months? The most popular post in our magazine was the article “Adobe Photoshop Tutorials - Best Of” which was published in October

Psychotherapy, a discipline intended to help people, is actually a form of marketing. Does that thought make you uncomfortable? Or even seem a little creepy? American psychiatrist Jerome Frank put it eloquently over forty years ago: psychotherapy is the art of Persuasion and Healing. A good therapist needs to do more than just teach her clients to have more positive feelings. She actually needs to sell those feelings, in order to get the results her patients want. Psychotherapy sells the

Have you ever considered producing an ebook for your blog readers? In this comprehensive post Ali Hale breaks down the process of how to do it. There’s never enough time. In an ideal world, you’d be posting to your blog frequently, writing great guest posts, building relationships with other bloggers, and responding to every single comment … and all that’s more than you can manage. You might have considered writing an ebook as a companion to your blog, but you just can’t find the