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Creating a Freebie to Convert Visitors into Subscribers
One of the best things you can do to grow your audience as a blogger is to have a mailing list. Instead of having people stumble upon your blog only to leave and perhaps never return after an initial...
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Marketing Won’t Save You
Programmers and other technical people tend to underestimate the importance of marketing. There is, in fact, a common dislike for marketing within many technical communities. In this blog, I talk a lot...
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Please take my brief blogging survey
Please take a moment to complete the following quick blogging survey. Now that I’m publishing content on a weekly basis, I think it becomes particularly important to incorporate feedback from readers...
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Technical Blogging’s First Survey Results
Last week I asked my readers to take a brief survey. It’s only fair that I share the aggregated results here. Without much ado, here they are. Q: On a scale from 1 to 10 how would you rate...
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Check out the New Blogging Tools Page
Over the weekend, I had the chance to create something I’ve been thinking about putting together for a quite a while now: a resource page with recommended blogging tools. This should come in handy if...
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How to Automatically Send Your Blog Posts to Your Email Subscribers via...
Several people have asked me how to set up a campaign so that new posts are automatically sent to your email subscribers. I created a video to show you how to do it with Mailchimp. Sign up with...
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Why
I’m a firm believer in the “why” of things. The why is often more important than the how. Find your why, and the how will become significantly easier to tackle and endure. People are also...
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Choosing a Domain Name for Your Blog
In this post, I’ll cover choosing a domain name for your blog, and in the process, I’ll also answer some frequently asked questions about the general subject of domain names. So you’ve come up with an...
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Should You Use Pop-Ups on Your Technical Blog?
Many blogs have a pop-up prompting people to sign up for their mailing lists. As such, you might be wondering if using a pop-up on a technical blog is a good idea or not. Before answering the question,...
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Embedding Code and Formulas in Your WordPress Posts
Recently I wrote a post for my programming blog that included both mathematical formulas and actual code. It got me thinking about the fact that most of my readers here might need to do the same. Those...
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But I’m not an expert
For the past several years I’ve been an advocate of leveraging blogging and social media to boost one’s career (among other reasons). The common objection A common objection I get, particularly from...
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Short vs. Long Content Posts
Is it better to write ten 400 words posts, or one 4,000 word post? The answer to the short vs. long content post conundrum, as it’s often the case in life, is “ it depends”. A frustrating answer, I...
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Finding Time to Blog
Let’s talk about finding time to blog. Technical bloggers tend to be busy professionals. So much so that I often hear remarks such as, “I would love to do so, but I simply don’t have the time needed to...
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Share the Conversations with Yourself
I have an ongoing conversation with myself. It takes place inside my head. I’m not alone. We call it thinking. I think about a lot of things each day, though I capture very few of these thoughts on...
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Technical Blogging Will Be on Hold Due to Tragic Circumstances
I regret to inform you that Technical Blogging will be on hold for a good while due to tragic personal circumstances. On the evening of Thursday, October 13, 2016, an 18 year old girl having a domestic...
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How to Automatically Send Your Blog Posts to Your Email Subscribers via...
Several people have asked me how to set up a campaign so that new posts are automatically sent to your email subscribers. I created a video to show you how to do it with Mailchimp. Sign up with...
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Why
I’m a firm believer in the “why” of things. The why is often more important than the how. Find your why, and the how will become significantly easier to tackle and endure. People are also...
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Choosing a Domain Name for Your Blog
In this post, I’ll cover choosing a domain name for your blog, and in the process, I’ll also answer some frequently asked questions about the general subject of domain names. So you’ve come up with an...
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Should You Use Pop-Ups on Your Technical Blog?
Many blogs have a pop-up prompting people to sign up for their mailing lists. As such, you might be wondering if using a pop-up on a technical blog is a good idea or not. Before answering the question,...
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Embedding Code and Formulas in Your WordPress Posts
Recently I wrote a post for my programming blog that included both mathematical formulas and actual code. It got me thinking about the fact that most of my readers here might need to do the same. Those...
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