When working on rebranding your blog, one of the most frustrating things can be trying to figure out the navigation. If you’ve been blogging for a while before finding your niche, you very likely have a huge hodgepodge mess of tags and categories. We’ve had to deal with it ourselves and we’ve seen it over […]
If you completed last week’s brand personality profile, then you have a good idea of what to work from for your brand design. If you’re working with a designer, they will find this very helpful. Here are 7 design tips for rebranding your site. Keep it simple. There are a million and 1 fun elements […]
At this point in our rebranding series, you’ve learned How to Know if You Should Rebrand, Why You Need to Stop Avoiding Niche-ing, How Finding Your Niche is Like Shopping for Shoes, 10 Questions to Find Your Niche or Personal Brand, and How to Brainstorm a Tagline that Does Its Job. Now it’s time to think […]
So by now on this branding journey you should have a good idea of what your niche is, or at least one you’re going to try out, but if not, the exercise of trying to brainstorm a tagline can also be a helpful part of the whole thought process. Figuring out how to brainstorm a […]
Here we are to wrap up how to find your niche in blogging. That should probably be worded differently since it implies that it’s easier than it is. *smirk* Let’s recap: Niche-ing is not something to avoid – rather than being constricting, it is actually very freeing. Finding your niche can take a long time, but […]
If you’re not yet convinced that you need to find your niche, just Google it – working from a well-defined niche is the best way to get results, no matter what you do, business, blogging, etc. In spite of the overwhelming evidence, I still balked at the idea for years. Finding that niche, that sweet spot, […]
As fun as it is to blog about whatever you happen to feel like blogging about at the time, serious bloggers realize at some point that being serious – doing the best job you can to help the greatest number of people, involves making sense of all of your scattered posts and finding your focus. […]
Some people start out blogging with a concrete plan, and good for them. But most of us just start blogging for fun or to keep non-local friends and family up to date on our lives. For many people, blogging is a relatively short phase – maybe one or two years. Maybe life gets too busy […]