Next week, we’re going to be celebrating our 10,000th blog post!
Will you join the party?
As soon as we hit our 10,000th blog post, we will dive into a fury of awesome giveaways.
Here’s what we have lined up (in no particular order):
I recently participated in a webinar hosted by a popular blogger. The goal of the webinar was to educate the attendees as to how to be more effective as a blogger. How to create content in a way that will not only attract readers but optimize your ability to monetize your blog at some point.
Ultimately helping us to leverage our online persona to help fund our writing. But I noticed the ugly side of monetizing about a quarter of the way into the webinar. There was a perceivable shift in the purpose of the seminar. It became more about selling a tool set than about education. It was a very stereotypical bait and switch. They provided twenty minutes of real content but the catch. There is always a catch. “If you want more just sign up for this extra tool set.” And in true infomercial fashion they began to talk about how we could get a discounted rate because we were simply participating in this webinar. The author of this blog had succumbed to the temptation to monetize too quickly. I can’t say that he was getting a cut of the money from the sales of the tool but I don’t really know why he would have given his audience to this technique if he was not profiting from it at all.
Telling stories has become a large part of our lives. Thankfully, technology has made it easier not just to tell our story, but to share it with as many people as possible. Evan Williams and Biz Stone, the co-founders have Twitter, are introducing a preview of ‘Medium’, a publishing platform they say will be easy for people but at the same time, elevate the quality of the content.
Here are some comments from Williams about it:
I receive multiple guest post requests every week for ChurchMag.
I’ve had ridiculously awesome requests, those that pour their entire heart and soul into it. Spam requests, “You have dynamically fresh content and a web design like no other.” And requests that fall in between.
Here’s an entertaining infographic on mistakes you can avoid when inquiring about guest posts, on blogs in general, and what kind of authors ChurchMag is looking for:
For the most part, a chasm exists between authors of books and bloggers.
Many in the former group have moved to blogging as a way of promoting their books, but their content comes in the form of something needing to be purchased at a bookstore. Conversely, professional bloggers tend to get their compensation via advertising, but their readers are able to read the content free of charge.
However, as popular agnostic, author Bart Ehrman shows that is not always the case.
CyberSoul is the new blogging home of Christian singer/songwriter, musician, blogger, tweeter, academic and consultant Vicky Beeching.
CyberSoul exists to provide three things:
Last week on Facebook Friday, we had some fun.
The question was, Who’s Your Favorite Avenger? (see results)
Can you guess who it was?
This week, let’s take a look at church websites.
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The new Google algorithms, dubbed Panda and Penguin, have had big effects on blogs and websites. Strategies that once worked, don’t anymore and sometimes even backfire.
So what does content marketing look like with the new Google, in a post-Panda world so to speak?
This infographic shows interesting results and techniques.
Here are the main take aways:
After you’ve poured your heart and soul into crafting a new blog post, you’re not done yet. Now comes the daunting task of getting your post ‘out there’ and convincing people that it’s worth a read (and preferable a share!).
This infographic shows 12 ways to effectively promote your new blog post, including some less known ones. It’s a handy checklist to use each time you’ve written something you want to share with the world.
I get so excited when I see that little badge icon indicating that I have apps to update on my iPhone!
It’s like a mini-Christmas, yeah? You know what I’m talking about, right? Ok, maybe it’s just me.
Either way, I got a little something dropped into my iOS stocking a week or so ago—the newest version of WordPress for iOS!
I love this powerful, free app. I have all of my blogs loaded in this app which means that I’m only ever a few gestures away from a blog post.
