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Building Your Blog

The Excel Sublime Charge Model. Igniting Yourself to Build Your Blog Like a Supercar. Photo by nv-p

The Excel Sublime Charge Model. Igniting Yourself to Build Your Blog Like a Supercar.

by Derek Jensen · 32 comments

A new model is brought to your atten­tion on what should be going through your head while build­ing your blog. In short, it’s the ESC model but its sim­i­lar to how super­cars are built in the non-technical aspects. We’re not build­ing blogs that are good enough for tomor­row. We’re build­ing a blog like a super­car and if we aren’t we should be. So how is a super­car built?

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

by Derek Jensen

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 […]

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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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How to Justify Spending Money on Your Blog (In a Good Way)

How to Justify Spending Money on Your Blog (In a Good Way)

by Alex

Many blog­gers are so wor­ried about mak­ing the most money pos­si­ble from their blog, that they don’t really stop to think about spend­ing money. Yes, when it comes to mak­ing money, spend­ing it seems like the last thing you’d want to do. But, the say­ing “you gotta spend some to make some” is true, and […]

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Why You Should Run Multiple Blogs for 3 Simple Reasons

Why You Should Run Multiple Blogs for 3 Simple Reasons

by Alex

Run­ning mul­ti­ple blogs has its advan­tages and dis­ad­van­tages. This post is all about the advan­tages, and why it’s in your best inter­est to run more than one blog at a time.

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4 Things to do When Your Traffic Spikes

3 Things to do When Your Traffic Spikes

by Alex

It hap­pens to every­one — a post goes viral on Twit­ter or gets men­tioned by a high traf­fic blog­ger. Traf­fic spikes, and you don’t know what to do by cel­e­brate. But, there are a few impor­tant things you should do when the traf­fic to your blog goes up like that, and I have a list of those 4 things in this article.

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7 Ways to Improve Your Blog in 2010

7 Ways to Improve Your Blog in 2010

by David

Along­side the New years res­o­lu­tions you made to begin the year, you should try and adopt these seven other sug­ges­tions into your res­o­lu­tions list.

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Remove Distractions With Information Fasting

How to Remove Distractions With Information Fasting

by Ian

Infor­ma­tion can quite eas­ily be com­pared to food and diet­ing. If you overindulge on infor­ma­tion with­out tak­ing action – and by “action” I mean cre­at­ing your own orig­i­nal con­tent, prod­ucts and loyal cus­tomer base – then your mind will become bloated and filled with a mil­lion and one ideas that you’ll never have the time or energy to fully act upon.

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The Key Factors to any Successful Product Launch

The Key Factors to any Successful Product Launch

by Alex

Sell­ing a prod­uct can be one of the best ways to earn a pas­sive income from your web­site. Based off the suc­cess of the Blo­gus­sion Theme, here are some key points to sell­ing a product.

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