Hey BGB’ers. New guest post live on Copyblogger. I’d love for ya’ll to pop on over and give it a read, and drop a comment if you have your own methods of shaking off the stupor of TOO MUCH SOCIAL MEDIA. 🙂 Until then, toodles dorks! XoXo!
Ana Hoffman’s Six Steps to Becoming an Authority Blogger
This is a guest post contributed by Michael Alexis from WriterViews. He breaks down a recent interview with Ana Hoffman of TrafficGenerationCafe into 6 simple steps to becoming what’s commonly dubbed an “authority blogger”. I have lots of respect for Ana as a fellow blogger, so I felt compelled to share this wealth of information with you, my dear readers. (I know, I’m...
Making Money as a Freelance Writer- WITHOUT Selling Your Soul to a Content Farm
This is a guest post by the lovely Marina, on a few ideas she’s used successfully to make money as a freelance writer. The caveat- she does it WITHOUT selling her soul to a content farm, and guess what? You can too, yo! Please drop any thoughts or questions in the comments area below. On June 16, 2011, TheFasterTimes.com posted an article by Oliver Miller, a self-described “content...
On @CrazyEgg- A 3 Step Process to…
This is a guest post contributed to the Crazy Egg blog, “The Daily Egg” with 3 steps to getting your ass back in the game when it comes to your writing. Feel free to leave comments on Crazy Egg if you’ve a mind, and otherwise… enjoy, yo!
Lessons From Ike: Tips for the Battle-Ready Entrepreneur
Woo! BGB is back online! If you dropped by at all in the last week or so, you may have noticed the unfortunate maintenance signs hanging around the joint. Me with my DIY’er mentality tried to fix a teeny design issue and ended up creating a much BIGGER design issue. In short, I broke it. Yes I’m a dork and that’s what I get for trying to tell myself I got skills. Heh. Anyhoo...
Why Pitching a Client is Like a Job Interview and Why It Isn’t!
Howdy dahling BGB’er. Hope you had a fabulous New Year and 2012 has started with an appropriate bang. This is a guest post contributed by Chris Farnell on why pitching a client is similar to a J.O.B. interview… and then again… why it isn’t! He makes several good points, with the very last point being my love-hate favorite. 😉 How about you? Got ideas on ways a pitching a...
3 Old School Copywriter Tricks for Finding New Ideas
This is a guest post courtesy of Derryck of BigStarCopywriting.com. (Love the spelling of his name, don’t you?) He approached me about writing a guest post for BGB, and when he offered this particular topic, I thought it a great fit and so immediately agreed. I’ve been struggling a bit myself in the creativity department, not really from lack of ideas, but lack of motivation. However...
The Beauty of Intangible Benefits- Why Potential Customers Don’t Care and How You Can Fix It
This is a guest post from Stephanie on intangible benefits, and how you can use them to inspire customer interest and loyalty with your brand. Granted it’s not always easy to pinpoint those intangibles (meh… maybe that’s why they are called intangible!) but once you do you can learn to highlight and use them to your business advantage. People are rarely interested in a play-by...
#BGB Tutorial- Keeping Performance Reviews (Relatively) Painless
It’s that time again… What time? Why… time for a new post, you whipper snapper! This guest post is brought to you courtesy of Chris Farnell. Chris is generously donating his point of view regarding keeping those inevitable uncomfortable moments that come with being a small business owner mostly pain free and a heck of a lot more comfy. If you yourself run a small business and...
How to Google Yourself (And Like What You Find)
This is a guest post by a chap named Devin Anderson. And get your mind out of the gutter people! 😉 I know you went there! This is actually quite an informative read on making yourself prominent in the Google SERPS for your name. Hopefully I don’t have to tell you how valuable that can be. I’d appreciate if you’d make him feel welcome in the comments below and drop any questions...

