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Problogger recently featured a guest post of mine, “How To Make a Blogging Business Plan.” You may also be interested in similar blog posts:

•   Creating and Sticking to a Blog Schedule (Plus Free Templates)

•    10 Best Wordpress Plugins For Small Business Blogs

•    How To Make Money Blogging

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How To Beat The Blogging Blahs

Beat the Blogging Blahs

You devote countless hours writing new content. Formatting posts. Leaving comments on other people’s blogs, and responding to comments on yours.

Then one day it hits you: blogging has stopped being fun. Blogging is work: repetitive, never-ending work. And it sucks.

I get burned out several times a year. I try to have several backup posts ready for times like these, but life often gets in the way. Then I’m left scrambling for content. Continue reading

Creating and Sticking to a Blog Schedule (plus Free Templates)

Blog schedules (or as some people call it, blog editorial calendars): I’ve given lip service to the idea more than once, but I’ve never actually created one … until now.

I envy bloggers who post seven days a week. I marvel at people who schedule my guest blog post months in advance because they’ve got other content already in queue. But until recently, creating a blog schedule seemed so regimented. I can barely remember to floss; how can I stick to a blog schedule?

I’m not sure if the envy finally broke me down, or the shame of being someone who doesn’t take her own advice. But with the holidays fast approaching and a bunch of new projects on the horizon, I realized I had better get my butt in gear. Continue reading

10 Best WordPress Plugins For Small Business Blogs

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WordPress blogs are great marketing tools for small business owners – and WordPress plugins can boost the effectiveness of those blogs exponentially.

WordPress plugins, for you blogging newbies, are additions to the WordPress blog platform that extend its functionality. As I write this blog post, WordPress currently has 11,300 plugins that do everything from create an image gallery to load random lyrics from “Hello Dolly” in your blog’s dashboard.

The “Hello, Dolly” plugin might be lame, but there are plenty of other WordPress plugins that can improve the marketing power of your blog. Here are my favorites: Continue reading

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Kelly Kautz is one woman on a mission to show the world that marketing your small business doesn't have to suck.

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