Getting your first guest post published

Blog Stuff, Writing
If you've never gotten a guest post published before, this week's article about a guest post strategy might have felt a little overwhelming. Once you've gotten the hang of it you'll find it's actually pretty easy to get yourself published on other people's blogs, as long as you have something valuable to say. In fact, the first three guest articles I pitched were all accepted by the first blogs I pitched them to, and that wasn't by chance. It's about getting the process right. Grab the list of blog post ideas you created on Monday. If you didn't, you should probably go do that. Like right now. Done? All right. Now pick a blog and a pitch idea and follow me. Prepare a query Most blogs want you to submit…
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Growing Your Blog

Blog Stuff, Writing
Once you've launched your blog comes the long term task of maintaining it and nourishing it so it grows. Hopefully you've already got a few weeks worth of posts drafted--not that this means you should stop writing new ones, in fact you should try to write one every day or every other day so that you'll have lots of back up posts if there's a crisis. So today I'd like to give you some strategies for finding more followers, and a couple to help you find ideas for your blog posts. Let's start with how to get more followers... Pay attention to and utilize social media. For most of my blogging career, throughout my various old blogs, I've been awful at this. I'll admit that even now I'm not a…
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