I’ve been meaning to write about the course I’m teaching, but I’ve been so busy, I keep putting it off. Why another blogging course? I have had this growing feeling over the years that the kind of blogging advice that’s available out there – either for free on places like problogger.net or copyblogger.com or at a price like...
Read MoreBeyond making money blogging
I was recently quoted in a piece over on travelllll.com Why your travel blog isn’t making any money and how to change that and I think it’s a pretty well-reasoned piece. There was one thing I thought of, after reading it, that I had wished I had said to John when he contacted me. It’s a short story: In 2010, I went to TBEX (travel...
Read MoreMGID: We’ll email you until you say ‘yes’
This is what happens MGID, random online marketing something whatever scammy blogger-bait company, when you keep emailing me. I write about it. I don’t install your widget. I do mark all of you email addresses as spam. Mar 14th: First email. Totally fine. Not interested, so I don’t respond. Hello, Ms. Christine Gilbert I’ve been...
Read MoreTravel blogging campaign in China
Just got this email, if you’re a travel blogger and want to go to China, this might be a good fit. We are currently in the process of planning a world-wide tourism campaign, both print media and online [...] With that said, we would very much like to collaborate with you on our upcoming campaign that will entail one or both of the following: 1) ...
Read MoreThe Comments Off Non-Debate
Recently I turned off comments on Almostfearless.com, something my long time readers weren’t entirely happy about. I wrote a little bit about the decision here. For years people have been debating the comments vs. no comments option for bloggers. Some people say that a blog without comments isn’t a blog. Others say that comment management...
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