Blogging Tip for the Day: Photograph Your Desk

Some bloggers—maybe you?—do hit dry spells where coming up with one more blog post just seems impossible. Maybe not even desirable.

And sometimes, just sometimes, you need something quick and easy to get yourself back in the game. Enter the desk photograph.

Long used by experienced bloggers who are casting about for something, anything to blog about, the desk photograph has two major things going for it. First, it’s a photo. Every blog reader likes a good photo. (And photos take up a nice chunk of space on the page, too.) Second, it lets people get a glimpse of part of your life that they won’t otherwise have access to. Use a desk photograph to give people the proverbial 1000 words, without writing a word.

The photo in this blog post is from a post on Peter Flaschner’s blog Almost Cool. He doesn’t say whether he was stuck for a blog topic, but we know better.

Etienne Teo Talks about Passion, Finding Time to Blog, and Comments on Blogging For Dummies

Have you ever thought about starting a blog?  Ever wondered how to make a little money while blogging?  Have you speculated how you may be able to turn blogging into a career?  Of course you have and the first thing you need to do is pick up a copy of our book.  But, if you aren’t about to launch out of your chair and run to your nearest book store, I invite you to check out Etienne Teo, a blogger and marketer in Singapore.  He has been blogging for a while now and has posted a few words about Blogging For Dummies. 

I passed by Borders which is one of the biggest bookstore here in Singapore and that is beside coffeebean but then again i thought i might find a few more new arrivals as they have a wide range of books and the section i normally browse through would be under “business management"and “self-improvements”. blogging for dummiesThese were the two categories that i want to improve in terms of self learning. As i was glancing along the shelf, i came across a book on “Blogging for Dummies” and i thought to myself for a second, “how on earth will anyone purchase such a book that could be easily Googled for online.” I flipped the book around and the price tag on this book printed $26.99 bucks after i do a conversion in currency, i mean you could get this book at $19 over at amazon if you love to keep a full collection on dummies, there is no need to purchase it here and why are there so many on this shelf, i can’t understand, will they sell?

What happened next changed my perception entirely and got me pondering why that happens, A lady walked past and grabbed the book which i have just described as basic stuff which i am sure it will be left on this shelf forever and there she started browsing through the contents and told a glance on the front cover “Blogging for Dummies” and left with a smile to the counter and purchasing the book at $26.99, i guess i was wrong after i rewinded the process and analysis what could have triggered the lady to purchase the book?

If you don’t know about Etienne, I have stumbled across his web site here and there when I have been looking for some new tips and advice about turning words into profit.  Go check him out he has a lot of great advice.

Susie and Shane Interviewed on Blog Talk Radio

Shane and I were at SXSW Interactive for the past few days, meeting, greeting, listening and partying. (It’s a great conference for you Web tech geeks, if you’re interested.) While we were there we did an interview about the book with John Havens of BlogTalkRadio. It was really fun!

Better yet, you can listen to us talk about blogs and TV shows from childhood from right here in this blog post. Check it out: