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2010

Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 2 Photo by Matilde B.

Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 2

by Derek Jensen · 1 comment

In part one of using the prac­tice or method of mind map­ping for our blog expan­sion I cov­ered a few begin­ning steps to always keep in the back of your head and the start of build­ing your blog. We start by brain­storm­ing and then orga­niz­ing all the thoughts to real­ity. Now, in part two today I want to con­tinue and tell you how I have used mind map­ping for build­ing my blogs and mak­ing smart mis­takes. We’re get­ting into the “meat and pota­toes” now. Are you pre­pared and ready?

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Corner The Market: Become A Big Fish In A Small Pond

by Andrew Henderson

Are you drown­ing in a sea of blog­gers who are blog­ging about the very same topic you are? Is your voice get­ting lost in the crowd? Are you tired of being non-existent among search engine results pages? If so, it’s time to get with the pro­gram and start “Cor­ner­ing the Market!”

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Finding Creativity & Inspiration from Nothing

by Matt

Inspi ra tion and cre ativ ity can really be in short sup ply these days. The longer you blog, it seems, the less you have to blog about. Awe­some ideas appear to be com ing to you less and less. But none of this has to be the case.

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Mind Mapping for Blog Expansion & Making Smart Mistakes, Part 1

by Derek Jensen

When it comes time to expand our blogs we need to take many things into con­sid­er­a­tion and use cau­tion along the way. We can do this while in the process of expand­ing our blogs through mind map­ping in the begin­ning stages. This prac­tice surely does not elim­i­nate any mis­takes for build­ing our blog, but instead […]

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Blog Community Response

Instill the Urge for Community Response

by Derek Jensen

What makes your estab­lished com­mu­nity, com­mit­ted read­ers, or fre­quent vis­i­tors leave some sort of response to your blog? It’s because of our qual­ity con­tent, our invit­ing com­mu­nity, or that we inter­act with our read­ers. It’s not because we sim­ply ask for their com­ments or thoughts. Why not? This gets our com­mu­nity to respond, but it’s […]

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How To Give Your Visitors More

by Karan Singhal

If you’re a blog­ger, it isn’t hard to fig­ure out what you vis­i­tors came to your web­site for: con­tent. And as a web­mas­ter, it’s your job to give your vis­i­tors what they’re look­ing for. There are many ways to do this, espe­cially under the world’s best and most expand­able blog­ging plat­form, WordPress.

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Utilizing Twitter for Conversations and Information

by Derek Jensen

Twit­ter is a tool that is becom­ing more and more widely used by blog­gers, jour­nal­ists, busi­nesses, and the gen­eral pub­lic. It’s free to use, easy to get started, sim­ple, but still highly under­es­ti­mated and used. Let’s look at how we can use the best of Twit­ter for hav­ing con­ver­sa­tions and gath­er­ing infor­ma­tion all in real time.

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The Immediate Benefits of Having a Newsletter & Why You Need One Now

The Immediate Benefits of Having a Newsletter & Why You Need One Now

by Alex

A few weeks ago, I launched a newslet­ter here that really has had a big impact on the blog today. It is another com­mu­nity of read­ers that is grow­ing pretty strongly here, and the effect this has all had on the blog is really quite big. I want to try to encour­age you to start a newslet­ter on your own […]

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Let Your Passion Be Your Secret Weapon

Let Your Passion Be Your Secret Weapon

by Mike Tennant

There is only one thing that should drive your inten­tions to make your blog a suc­cess. Not to make money, not to become famous, but pas­sion. Once you have found what you’re pas­sion­ate about, it will be all the moti­va­tion you need to keep mov­ing forward.

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