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Scott Sweeney’s Blogging Tips

I have heard there are two guarantees in life. I feel there are three.

Death.
Taxes.
You will write a bad and pointless blog post.

When I start out every blog post, I try to make it as witty, informative and interesting as I can. I spend a bit of time crafting it, proof reading it, and then I […]

Every so often, I don’t feel like typing out a blog post. I know what you are thinking, but it is true! Between my several websites and blogs I can easily suffer from keyboard mileage. I feel that way right now actually. If I don’t blog regularly, however, all the work I have put in […]

After a show, when someone hands me a flier, it’s like they are saying ‘Here, you throw this away!’ - Mitch Hedberg
Two weeks in to my Twitter experiment I have made a lot of new friends, and have practically doubled the amount of people who have subscribed to my feed and my email list. But […]

When I am in the mood for a laugh, I look back at my music career and listen to my old songs. I can hear the very obvious changes in my voice, but many people cannot. Here are links to three songs I have written at three different points in my career. Can you hear […]

Almost every day (occasionally I’ll take a break), I will spend a good solid hour or so at my RSS reader looking at posts from fellow bloggers. A post by David Kam at the MarketingDeviant caught my eye, and got me thinking about the importance of storytelling in marketing. Here is a bit of that […]

The blogging world has exploded in the past couple of years, and so have the amount of people trying to capitalize financially from their blog. One of the best things about Wordpress is that you can make it artistic, but still flexible enough for proper advertisement placement if that is what you are into. I […]

I saw a posting on Flimjo doing a weekly recap of what was discussed on the blog the previous week. I liked the concept a lot. It was a good way to put everything all in one tidy post, and give love to those who have commented this week. I like the concept so I […]

Last week, I started reading more on how you can drive traffic to your website using Twitter. Several bloggers that I read use Twitter daily to help find new readers and meet new people. I really didn’t grasp it at first, but I definitely got sucked in to Twitter quickly.
For those who don’t know the […]

One of the keys to having a successful blog is to be able to generate traffic from all angles. Everyone has their obligatory post about the ‘best ways to generate traffic’.  Usually it is recycled information, although some people might be able to articulate it better.  In my previous post, I mentioned my top 5 […]

A few days back I posted some tips on how I use MySpace to promote my blogs and website. Today I will be discussing Facebook.
I don’t have nearly as much exposure to Facebook as I have to MySpace. Facebook was in its infancy when I was promoting my band heavily online, and in addition, you […]

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Author: Scott Sweeney

Scott authors several blogs and websites. His newest endeavor is Review Chicago. Man vs Blog is his outlet to discuss blogging techniques. Have a question? Email

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