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Freelancer Friday – What makes a readable blog post?
30 Day Blogging Challenge Day 5 Blog post visitors are tricky beasts! We are told that we have a very short time in which to grab their attention and persuade them to stay on the blog. How can you ensure that your blog visitors might be tempted to stay? When you are a freelancer, it…
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Freelance Writing: 12 Ways to Promote Your Blog Post
Producing a piece of writing for a client who has commissioned freelance services from you, or for your own website should be a regular job because of the information and interest it offers to potential customers. However it is not enough to just write articles and web content, you also need to promote it, so…
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There’s no such thing as a free lunch – should you write for free?
Actually, there is such a thing as a free lunch! My church put on a free lunch on the first Saturday of every month. They offer soup, fresh crusty bread and cakes, and it is very popular. Some of the homeless people in the town are waiting eagerly outside, at 12 pm, ready to come…
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7 retro blog posts you might like to check out
When you’ve put a lot of effort into writing your blog posts, it can be difficult to lose them off the top page and awkward for visitors to your page to find and read them, unless of course, they found them through searching a specific topic in Google. So it is good to occasionally write…
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7 Ways to Find that Next Blog Post
There are times when writing a blog comes so easily. Then there are times when it becomes more difficult. It seems that every subject that you want to write about, has been already covered many times before, by more esteemed writers, in such a better way than you could ever write. What’s the point? Surely,…
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New Look Creative Writer – Spot the Change
My blog has changed its theme. I really liked the old Dynablue theme, but I felt it was time for a change for three reasons: I was looking for something more clean and up to date. I felt that the old blue theme was looking a bit dated. I needed a change Websites have moved…
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Day 30 – 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Final Review
It’s here – my final blog post of my 30 day blogging challenge! It’s been quite a journey involving late nights, frantic Google searches and lots of cups of tea. Along the way, I’ve made some friends and my blog is definitely better for it. I began my challenge, hoping that I would be able…
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Day 29: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – 30 Ways to find Blog Post Ideas
When I began this challenge, my biggest excuse for not keeping up my blog was that I didn’t know what to write about. On beginning this 30 day blogging challenge, I wrote a quick list of ideas for blog posts so that I would have something to give me ideas when I needed something quickly.…
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Day 28: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Procrastination & the Writer
I would like to put my name forward for the title of ‘Writer Procrastinator Extraordinaire’ as I think that my talents for procrastination far exceed my talents for writing! Today I have had little bits of time here and there, but no, it’s at 9.47 pm that I decide to start writing my blog post…
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Day 27: 30 Day Blogging Challenge – Five Retro Blog Posts to check out on this Blog
By the end of this blogging challenge, I will have written 30 blog posts in a little over a month. It ’s not been easy but it’s been worth it. For today’s blog post, I want to highlight some of the posts that have gone before. One thing I have noticed in checking over my…
