The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.
Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
the harder the conflict, the greater the triumph.
Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.
The key to success in blogging (and in many areas of life) is small but regular and consistent actions over a long period of time
If you want to continually grow your blog, you need to learn to blog on a consistent basis.
The first step in blogging is not writing them but reading them.
Don't fool yourself that you're blogging when you're really just putting stuff up online.
Don’t try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I’m a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback.
If you love writing or making music or blogging or any sort of performing art, then do it. Do it with everything you've got. Just don't plan on using it as a shortcut to making a living.
I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.
Make it about them, not about you.
What you do after you create your content is what truly counts.
Not only are bloggers suckers for the remarkable, so are the people who read blogs.
Blogging is like work, but without coworkers thwarting you at every turn.
I've been blogging since February of 2001. When I started blogging, it was a dinosaur blog. It was me and a handful of tyrannosaurs. We'd be writing blog entries like, 'The tyrannosaurus is getting grumpy.'
I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.
Blogging is a great way to provide tips and advice to each other.
Twitter, Facebook, Google + are the trifecta of marketing for authors (and bloggers).
Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.
I mean suspense, twists are almost impossible these days.
My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.
I started blogging as a hobby, not really thinking anyone would read my site, just my friends.
I have to live the content, then come back and write about it.
Some blogs have become the best check on monopoly mainstream journalism, and they provide a surprisingly frequent source of initiative reporting.
