Write a Better Blog 101

If you want your blog to help promote your craft business, or connect you to book deals and freelance design jobs, you need a blog that's consistently interesting and valuable.

Your blog is one of the most important business-generating tools you have. It's like a living resume - it shows other people what you're good at, and that you can consistently meet deadlines and produce results.

It used to be that we bloggers could sit down at the computer and write about whatever came into our minds. But today, the blogosphere is extremely crowded. If you want your blog to stand out in this crowd, it's important to think more like a magazine editor than a diarist.

These are some of my all-time favorite articles about writing a high-value blog.

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Copyblogger:The 8 Habits of Highly Effective Bloggers

Originally posted on copyblogger by Annabel Candy on 4/20/2010.

Do you want to be a successful blogger?

I do. I might be getting a bit obsessed with it, actually.

Post ideas...

43 Folders: What Makes for a Good Blog?

Originally posted on 43 Folders by Merlin Mann on 8/19/2008.

My friends at Six Apart recently asked me to make a list of blogs that I enjoy. I think they’re planning to use it for their new...

Chris Brogan: 40 Ways to Deliver Killer Blog Content

Originally posted by Chris Brogan on 12/4/2008.

Problogger: Writing Good Content

Originally posted by Darren Rowse on 2/18/2006.

I’d now like to swing the blogging for beginners series onto the topic of writing content with a series of posts exploring different elements...

LifeDev: Why You Should Start Monitoring Information Like a Beat Reporter and 3 Ways To Do It

This post is written by Jaclyn Schiff of The Schiff Report.

Unless your workday includes multiple references to deadlines, leads and sources, you probably don’t think of yourself as a beat...

Craftypod: Craft Blogging: What Should You Write About?

Originally posted by Sister-Diane on 6/5/2009.

In this show:

- The comments on this post tell me that the number one question folks have about craft blogging is, “What should I write...