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Creating A Community

I Don't Feel Like Blogging Today

I Don’t Feel Like Blogging Today

by Alex · 50 comments

in Creating A Community

I‘m not kidding either. For the first time in weeks, it is warm out (about 57 degrees today), and there is actually a field of green grass showing under the bright sun instead of a blinding white. Why would I, or anyone else want to sit inside on the computer on a day like today?

It’s not that I don’t like blogging, or getting to know you guys. It’s all actually very fun to write and interact with everyone who reads my stuff (thanks, by the way).

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Why Some of Your Posts

Why Some of Your Posts “Flop” and how you can Fix it

by Alex

Not every post you publish on your blog turns into a smashing success. In fact, quite the opposite is true for more posts than we think – they flop. People’s interests in the different topics you talk about in your niche are all different, and with some articles you publish, that interest just won’t be [...]

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Improve Community Leadership on your blog

You Are the P.I.C. of Your Blog

by Chris Palmer

Today, Chris Palmer of Angle of Attack Blog briefly, but powerfully speaks about taking a better leadership role in the community of your blog and what taking command of that position can bring to you. Want to write for us too?
As pilot-in-command during my flights, I am responsible for the souls on board my aircraft. [...]

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How to Keep an Organized Inbox and Keep Everybody Happy

How to Keep an Organized Inbox and Keep Everybody Happy

by Alex

A very important part of keeping in sync with the readers in your community is to chat with them through email. Whether it is you emailing them, or they email you – it is vital to keep the conversation going and keep everything organized for the sake of your readership.

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The Best User is the Biggest Winner

by Seth

Blog owners get a lot from having an active community.  For some bloggers they pay the bills from the purchases and clicks of their readers.  So of course blog owners try to build a blog with an active community they can build trust on.
What might be surprising is the users who are the most active [...]

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How to Connect Better With Your Community and See Results

How to Connect Better With Your Community and See Results

by Alex

Without readership on your blog, what exactly is the point of running a successful, money-making blog? Have you ever heard bloggers say “It’s not my blog, but yours”? Well, whoever came up with that is exactly right.
Okay, so we both know that since you own the domain, have access to the sites internal files that [...]

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How We Earned Over 200 Subscribers with 2 Simple Posts

How We Earned Over 200 Subscribers with 2 Simple Posts

by Seth

I have written hundreds of posts over the last few months on a variety of blogs.  In fact, my role on Blogussion is primarily to write great content and promote our blog. Alex also writes awesome content and has insane design abilities.

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How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps

How to Properly Prepare a Guest Post in 5 Simple Steps

by Alex

Guest posts are great things. They make getting new content up on your blog very easy, and it makes you feel like you’re doing something right when you get someone who wants to write a post on your blog. Having guest posts really means a lot of things for you, but come with their own [...]

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Build Your Community, Stop Begging for One

by Seth

Recently I house sat a small dog named Louis (Looey) for a couple of weeks.  He was an incredibly well trained dog that never once made a mess on the floor, ruined my furniture, scratched my door, or barked all night.
By the end of the week I realized that Louis was a one in a [...]

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The Power of Free

The Power and Importance of “Free”

by Alex

A technique for building the readership on my blogs that I have started working at is the power of releasing things for free. I have been preparing many things over the past weeks to start releasing on my blogs, in hopes of building a stronger and more loyal community.
Of course, the keyword in that first [...]

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How to Build a Community Around Your Blog

How to Build a Community Around Your Blog

by Alex

Your blog is more than a collection of articles – it’s a community of readers, commentators, visitors, advertisers, and you, the blogger. Learning how to connect everyone who sees your blog in some way is important if you want to excel above and beyond the typical blog. When it comes to building a community, you [...]

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16 Free Phenomenal Plugins That Will Enhance Your Comment Area and Start More Conversations

16 Free Phenomenal Plugins That Will Enhance Your Comment Area and Start More Conversations

by Alex

The comment area on a blog is a very important place on a blog, and I feel like many bloggers under-utilize it. Sometimes, to get a good conversation started on a blog, there’s more to be added than just a comments form and the threaded enhancement.

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Motivating Fan Mail

How My Fan Mail Can Serve As A Motivator To You (Plus Some Insight On How I Designed Blogussion)

by Alex

Last week, I received a great email pretty much praising Blogussion for everything that it is. In the message (which I will post below), I not only received comments towards the blog, but was asked some questions about some of the things I did here, which I will also cover in this post.

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