I received an email once from a young blogger who said, “Hello, I would like to network with you.” Seriously, this happened. It’s absurd, but I think it underlines the way networking has been talked about and promoted as if it’s an action separate from everythi

When I started this course in 2011, I always envisioned at some point being able to do a series very small one-on-one mentoring sessions. I had attended TBEX 2010 (a travel blogging conference but it’s similar to many blogging conferences), and it seemed to me that the sessions

This month, Christine created her list of Blogs To Watch In 2013 post, which can be a fun process to work through, discovering loads of blogs we didn’t know about, finding out who’s doing what well. In the end, there are no votes to tally, no likes to calculate. It’s

The correct answer: I want to share/create things I love and connect with people who love them too. If you’re blogging to… make money, get a book deal, become famous, build your business, or sell a product you won’t be successful. Here’s why: When you aim for o

I read a tweet that said Penelope Trunk was giving away her latest book on Kindle free for 24 hours.  Being the Kindle-addict that I am, I rushed over to see what the hubbub was about. First I read this post: http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2012/07/09/how-i-got-a-big-advance-from-a-big-

I try to read a lot of blogs that are specifically NOT like mine. For a long time this wasn’t the case and sometime in 2010, I read a comment on a non-travel blog about my blog, about me, that said “She’s a good writer, but completely out of touch with the real world

I’m making this post public to show an example of our weekly challenges!  These challenges happen every week on a different theme and discipline of blogging. This week’s challenge June 17th, 2012. Every week we host a challenge that gives us a chance to work on our blogs and get

DSLR cameras are becoming more and more popular for shooting video, and even most consumer grade cameras shoot in HD these days. The big problem with using these cameras is that unlike professional and “prosumer” grade video cameras, there is no real stability control in a

I’m hearing a lot of big industry talk about how everything is “social media” these days, but for the little guys is this really true?  If you started a blog today, and set up all your profiles and followed all the influencers in your niche and chatted away and nicel