How Often Should You Blog?

Wether you've been blogging for a while, or just investigating getting started, you've probably come across advice to blog everyday or at least a couple of times a week. The idea behind this is simple - "The more you post, the greater your traffic" - Michael Hyatt. But, I must be honest - just the thought of posting everyday causes panic in …

Why Consistency is So Important

On Sunday night I had a sick feeling in my stomach. For the first time since I started my blog in December 2010 I did not have a post scheduled to go out on monday morning. The last few weeks had run away with me, and I simply hadn't disciplined myself to sit down and …

Vote For This Blog!

Following my blog being Freshly Pressed and getting a bunch of attention, someone nominated me for the 2011 South African Blog Awards. I'm not sure what that means exactly, but apparently if you make into the top 3, you get to go to an "event" in Joburg. And my wife really wants to go to …

Digging Ditches – How I Got Freshly Pressed.

So last week one of my posts got Freshly Pressed. What this means is that my post was featured on WordPress.com’s homepage, where each weekday, ten posts are selected from around 450,000 new blog posts! What it also means is a lot of traffic to my blog... like 85 000-hits-in-10-days-kind-of-traffic! So, needless to say it has …