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How to improve your Blog writing.

By Matt Cowan on Wednesday, April 20th, 2011 | 5 Comments

The best way to to improve your writing? Well, you may imagine that it is to write more and keep practicing. But according to Glen Allsopp in his course Cloud Blogging, the best way to improve your writing skills is actually by reading. He recommends reading published books. This is because these have gone through [...]

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Are you writing for your ideal reader?

By Matt Cowan on Saturday, April 9th, 2011 | 2 Comments

Identifying, and focusing on, an ideal  reader  is very useful for writing a blog, in the same way as identifying an ideal client/customer is extremely useful for business. But if you don’t have a large budget to do market research, there is another method to identify your ideal reader, using a bit of imagination. The [...]

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Cheap outsourcing option?

By Matt Cowan on Saturday, July 10th, 2010 | 1 Comment

A few weeks ago I heard about an interesting website where people offered various services for $5. The site is called fiverr and there are hundreds of people on there offering many different things from the sublime to the ridiculous. There are people who will do a dance for you, or write a list to [...]

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Writing as an alter ego.

By Matt Cowan on Saturday, June 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments

Do you stop yourself from writing what ,and how, you really want to write? Do you get an attack of the “what will they think of me’s” while writing? Do you censor yourself because your name will be under the title? Is the inner critic thwarting your creativity? If so, one way around this could [...]

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What to focus on with your Blog.

By Matt Cowan on Thursday, June 17th, 2010 | 2 Comments

The number one thing to stay focused on with our blogs is…… Content Yes, as if you did not know that already. But we often get sidetracked don’t we? I know I do. We start looking at the quality and design of our theme, all the little improvements we could make. We spend time networking, [...]

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Writing on Schedule

By Matt Cowan on Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 | No Comments

This is the second writing exercise taken from Dorothea Brande’s book “Becoming a Writer”. The first exercise about writing first thing in the morning can be found Here and is best read before reading this post if you have not already done so. The exercise is as follows: set a fixed time in a day [...]

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Effortless Writing

By Matt Cowan on Monday, June 7th, 2010 | 2 Comments

This is the first of two posts about two writing exercises aimed at developing our writing muscles. Both come from the excellent book “Becoming a Writer” by Dorothea Brande. Although the book is aimed at creative writers, I am sure this exercises will be beneficial to writers in all disciplines. I thought it could be [...]

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Blogging – The most rewarding way to make money online?

By Matt Cowan on Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010 | No Comments

Blogging may be the most rewarding way to make money online. If you do it right! Blogging gives you the opportunity to be creative, help people and make money, while also giving you the opportunity to establish yourself as an authority in a subject or niche. So, saying that, why do so many people fail [...]

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The Story of How I made my first Affiliate Sale

By Matt Cowan on Thursday, December 10th, 2009 | No Comments

This is the story of how I made my first sale online and how it influenced the direction I am taking with my marketing. It all started about a year and a half ago, around May 2008. I had just joined a Network Marketing scheme. One of those things where you try and sell people [...]

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When is a compliment not a compliment?

By Matt Cowan on Friday, January 30th, 2009 | 3 Comments

This is a change from what I had planed to post today because of a comment I received a few days ago. I received what appears to be a very complimentary message about one of my post: Great! Thank you very much! I always wanted to write in my site something like that. Can I [...]

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