Tag: Blogging

How I choose the quotes

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How do I choose the quotes I’m using in my post?

 

My first source for my quotes is the internet. I like to search for quotes that goes along with what I’m talking about.

 

I choose quotes for what they say. I don’t care much about who said it.

 

For me, a good quote should be less than 25 words long and should be easy to understand. In my opinion, if you can’t resume your reflection in less than 25 words, it means that it still need to be worked on.

 

“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”

– Albert Einstein

When I don’t find anything good to put in my text, I don’t put any. I want the quotes to support my post.

 

I would like someday to create a web site where any member would have the opportunity to propose a reflection. It would not be about being famous, but about good reflection. Those quotes would be available online for free with the author associated with it.

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Good Design

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Some studies show that “ease of use” is the winning factor on an ecommerce site.

 

Build It for Speed – It’s a fact of modern life – people are in a hurry. This means that you have between 10 and 30 seconds to capture your potential customer’s attention. To minimize your load time, keep graphics small. Compress them where possible.

 

Target your Market – Know who your market is and make certain that your site caters to their needs. It is critical that your site reflect the values of your potential customers. Is your market mostly business professionals? If so, the site must be clean and professional. Is your product aimed mostly at teenagers and young adults? Then your site could be more informal and relaxed. The key here is to know your market and build the site to their preferences.

 

Focus the Site – Make certain your website is focused on a primary goal: selling your product or service. A site offering many unrelated products is not necessarily unfocused, but this is often the case. If your business does offer many products, dedicate a unique page for each instead of trying

to sell them all from one page.

 

Credibility Is Crucial – The most professionally designed website won’t sell if your customers don’t believe in you. A clear privacy statement is one way to build your credibility. Provide a prominent link to your privacy statement from every page on the site as well as from any location that you are asking your visitors for personal information. Provide legitimate contact information online.

 

Navigation should be simple – Make site navigation easy and intuitive. Simple and smooth navigation adds to the convenience of the visitors. Add powerful search and catalogue features. Visitors usually don’t have the patience to navigate through the whole website to find what they are looking for.

 

Consistency is the key – Make sure the site is consistent in look, feel and design. Nothing is more jarring and disturbing to a customer than feeling as if they have just gone to another site. Keep colors and themes constant throughout your website.

 

Make your website interactive and personalized – Add feedback forms as well as email forms that allow your prospective customers to ask you any questions they might have pertaining to a product. Personalization of your website is another key element that can build your visitor’s trust and increase your sales.

 

Content is King – Good content sells a product. Ask yourself the following questions. Does your copy convey the message you wish to get across to your visitors? Is it compelling? Does it lead your visitor through the sales process? Have others review, critique and edit your copy to insure it is delivering the intended message. Always double check your spelling and grammar.

 

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Selling is mostly knowledge and some creativity. If you build a web site to sell your product, you should take each of those steps and verify if you’re getting them out there. A disturbing web site will always loose customer, keep it simple and fast to learn where the user can get what ever he wants. Use the simpler word to identify each of your pages.

 

Start to bring people as soon as you can. This mean, that you need to make it as good as you can, in the shortest time you can. Don’t wait too long to get it out there. You don’t want someone else to do it before you.

 

There are always things that can be upgraded. You’ll have to work on your website to keep it up to date.

 

The design can be a good way to upgrade your website. A new logo could upgrade the look of your business with your web site.

 

 

 

 

Blog comment

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One of the most common tips, to build the traffic on a blog, is to leave comments on others people blog.

 

I’m an old surfer and marketer. In my early years, the ‘Golden book’ was common on most of the personal web site online. I was leaving a nice little text about the site with a little invite to visit mine at the end. In that time, it was working with an average of 30% to 40% of people visiting my own web site from that text. Now, there’s less and less personal web site. Most people will go for a blog instead of a web site.

 

It’s mostly the same that we do with post. With the difference that we need to leave a comment related to the subject of the post. This means that you need to read and understand the post first. Then that you need to create a comment that is as good as you can. It takes times and energy to do so.

 

If I could give you an advice, don’t leave a comment that looks like “Great post”, “Interesting subject” or “I agree with you”. Doing so isn’t going to bring any new people to your blog. You need to create something good with your comment.

 

View your comment as a promo tool for your blog. It has to be as good as your blog. It also needs to be short. A comment with more than 10 lines will only be read by the author of the blog you wrote on. Yes, you want the author to read your comment, but you also want the visitor to that blog to read it.

 

Remember, when you leave a comment, it’s more than a comment; it’s an ad to yourself and your blog.

 

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Writing

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Writing is putting your naked mind in words.

 

You put yourself in front of others people opinion.

 

Some will be nice in their comment and others not.

 

Don’t focus on the aggressive people. Haters will hate.

 

“There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.”

– Peace Pilgrim

Are you brave enough? Write and face the haters.

 

A lot of people think that writing is easy. Many have the idea to write something, but only a very small numbers do really write and publish.

 

Would you like to become a writer? Maybe you should start to write. Yes, start to write. This may seams very easy, but it’s not. Only when you are doing it every day that you can understand what it’s all about.

Bad day to post?

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Is there a bad day to post?

 

This is an interesting question.

 

Myself, I think that it doesn’t matter. A good post is a good post. It will have an impact every day of the week.

 

I like to post on every Monday. It feels great to start a new week with a new post.

 

For the past 25 days, I posted every day. Here on “From mage mind” and on other blogs around the web.

 

Some are saying that Monday and Tuesday are the best day to post on your blog. In reality, a lot of people will read your post a week after you put it there. If your title is great and your post interesting, then people will read them as they see them.

 

The best readers are the ones who are following you. They will not read your post as you put them online, but most of them will come back later to take a look.

 

What do you think about that? Do you keep data on when you get the most response to your post?

 

Daily post

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A lot of blogger are posting daily. Some even post more than once a day.

 

Should you post daily?

 

Let’s talk about this.

  • What is the main subject of your blog? If your blog is about something that can change daily, you could post daily. As an example: sport blog, Stardom blog, politic blog, shopping blog and so on. But if your blog is more about personal growth than you could limit your post to a few times a week. Remember that content is king. If you don’t have anything to post, don’t post.
  • How many people do you have visiting your blog? If you start your blog, you should take the time to choose your subject and then start to post according to that subject. Its way better to post once a week a very good post then to post 7 ones that are bad. The more people you have on your blog, the more you’ll feel the pressure to post daily.
  • Do you have a lot of bad days? A bad day is a day where you just can’t find the energy to create a new post. If you have a lot of bad days, than you should write as much as you can during your good ones and put the extra post on the side for the bad days. Doing so will help you keep a steady 3 to 4 post per week. It is very hard to post good stuff daily.
  • If you don’t see how you could post 3 times a week, than you should not stress about posting daily.

 

Posting daily is for the expert. If you don’t have the experience to do so, then you should start with 3 post per week.

 

It could be a goal for you to find the energy and inspiration to post daily.

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Short or long post?

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Each blogger build his or her style.

 

To me, the length of the post is not relevant. Because, my priority is the content. We can say a lot in less than 25 words.

 

Here’s my view of what is making a good post.

 

  1. Content: The priority should always be the content.
  2. Structure: The structure of the post is making it easy to read or not. One good advice: “If you want to know if your post is easy to read or not, read it aloud to yourself. If you can’t read it without bumping, then you should revise it.”
  3. True: The info in your post needs to be true for you. What does this means? It has to be from you. Never, ever, post a text from someone else. It has to come from you.

 

I think that a blogger should post a minimum of 3 post per week. But, its way better to publish one great post in a week than 7 bad ones.

 

Short post are great for people that don’t have a lot of time to spend reading.

 

Your post need to be interesting from the first line. If you don’t catch the reader on your first line, you will lose 90% of them.

 

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Why do I blog?

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I believe in the butterfly effect.

 

As small is my influence on the planet, it is still influence. I want to orient it for the good.

 

I write my post with the idea of bringing something good into this world.

 

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

– Edmund Burke

I want my blog to be a good place. A place that you visit often and feel about doing it.

 

I want my blog to bring good energy so the readers will take action to make this world a better place.

 

I want my blog to be a guide for those who don’t know why they feel so bad about their life.

 

I want my blog to be there after I’ll be gone. I want people to come back to my blog and use it in a positive way.

 

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”

– William James

Long or short post?

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You choose to write as you like.

 

Think as if you were writing on a note pad after a day’s work. Will you write 10 pages or 1 pages?

 

I like to post short text. Most of them are more motivating then informative.

 

I like to write stuff that are hitting like a bang! Stuff that should not take more than 30 seconds to read. And from time to time, I write longue post that are more technique.

 

I see a lot of people posting long post that are quite boring to read. Put the good stuff in you post and don’t fill it up with boring things. If you have 10 lines of good stuff, then you should post 10 lines.

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Build great blog

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Do you want to start a blog?

 

If so, do you know where to start? What you should do?

 

I’m not the first one to talk about this subject and I will not be the last.

 

Here, I just want to share some great tips on how to start a blog.

 

The first thing you should know, is your “WHY”.

 

Why do you want to start a blog? This seems very simple, but it can become very complicated if you start with a lie.

 

Whatever your reason, it’s all up to you.

 

Let’s clear something first. If your first reason to write a blog is to “Earn” a living online, then I should tell you something. There’s no guaranty that you’ll earn a living with your blog. Even if you are someone with a lot of creativity, there’s no guaranty that you’ll earn anything with your blog.

 

Second, let’s clear a little common idea. A lot of the “How to earn with your blog guide” will tell you that you “need” to have your own domain and web site. Me, I’ll tell you that before you invest any money, start to invest time into writing for your blog.

 

What do I mean with start writing before you get your blog? You need to write your post “off line” first. Most new blogger will start to write on their blog directly online. Bang! If you don’t care much about the quality of your post, it’s OK to do it like that. But if you want to do a good job, then you should take the time to write your post before publishing them online.

 

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

– Ernest Hemingway

 

A good advice. Write your post with a text editor. Rewrite them again and again until they are as good as you can make them. Then write another one and another one. Don’t start posting them online until you have at least 5 offline post ready.

 

Those posts will be your buffer. One of the key to have a successful blog is posting regularly. Having a buffer will bring you something to post on the bad days when you just don’t have the inspiration. You can still post even if you didn’t wrote anything on that day.

 

If you found out that you can’t write those 5 posts, then you found out that you should not start a blog. And if you can find it out before you buy a domain and a web site, you can put that money on something else. Blogging is not for everyone.

 

Let’s talk about the “On the spot” blog post. There’s very few blogger that can write a post on the spot and publish it as is. Most people that try to do that are publishing stuff that aren’t very good and some could even be seen as a waste of time.

 

Now, let’s talk about how often you should post. Some people are posting daily and some are posting monthly. To be honest, it’s all up to you. Me, I did posted daily when I started. It was really hard to keep the quality up. In that time, I did post some very bad text. Now, I post every 3 to 5 days. This means less than 10 posts a month.

 

Earlier, I was talking about the time. This is what you really need to focus on. Because it’s the first things that you need to know. If you can’t spend a lot of time on your blog, then it will influence the quality and the number of post that you will put on it.

 

Then, you’ll have to choose where you want to have your blog. There’s a lot of free blog host online. You can choose to start with one of them. But, as I told you before, you should keep a backup of everything that you wrote on a physical disk. If the host has a problem and delete your blog, you’ll still have your post and could find another place to set it up again. If you want to earn an income with your blog, you should look at getting your own domain and host.

 

Another way to earn with your blog, is to use your post to create a book. Even with a free blog, you have the ownership of your post and can use them to make a book.

 

The last thing I would like to say: “If you write your post with a smile, there’s a good chance that you are a blogger.”

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