One of the biggest concerns for bloggers is deciding what they are going to write about, day in-day out. It’s easy to sit down in front of your PC and just not be able to come up with any ideas at all. You know the clock is ticking but your brain just gets frozen and before you know it, an hour has gone by and you haven’t even typed anything.

One way I personally find helpful is to have a series of posting methods written down in front of me. I can then look at these methods and can usually come up with some good ideas really quickly.

Here are some of the methods I use:

Tip #1 – Top XX Tips

This is a common idea and widely used in article writing. The method is to come up with a certain number of tips to solve a problem or explain how to do something.

Let’s say you have a blog on dogs. You could write “Top Ten Tips For House Training Your Dog”, or “Top 5 Ways To Train Your Dog To Walk Without Pulling”. All you do then is to have a quick search online or in Ezinearticles.com and rewrite some tips you find into your content.

Of course, if you are an authority in your market, then you won’t need to rewrite the content as you will already know it. [Read more...]

To become successful in the blogging world, you are going to need to know about and use a whole range of free blogging resources. There is a huge amount available and I will go through some of the most popular below.

Obviously there are thousands that could be added and I could never fit them all in here, so I’ll list the most popular.

I’ll split them up into sections to make it easier to follow:

Platforms

Blogger – If you want to build your blogs for free, then you can create them here. Create as many as you want and use them to make money. Only negative point to using free blogs is you have no permanent control over them and could lose them all if for some reason blogger close down your account.

WordPress – Almost all professional blogs are powered by WordPress. It comes free to install on most good hosts that have cPanel. If you don’t have cPanel then it can still be downloaded for free from WordPress but you need to install it. The great thing about using WordPress is the shear number of themes and plugins that are available.

Content

PicApp – Adding images to your blog is a great way to make them look more professional and also encourage more visitors. You can use images from PicApp for free and their system makes them super easy to add to your blogs. [Read more...]

In this video I show how you can use the software program Artisteer to build a blog business.

The software is amazingly powerful and allows you to create unique WordPress themes in seconds. You can then use these themes to build your own blog business. I give you some examples of how you can do that.

So here’s the video:

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Check out Artisteer from here.

Thanks for watching!

Tony