5 Unintended Consequences of a Bad Blog Post

It’s 4pm. Your blog post was supposed to go live at 9am.

But you forgot.  Or procrastinated. Or didn’t know what to write about.

Whatever.

It all amounts to the same thing: that at 4pm, you’re frantically scrambling around trying to get something—anything—written so that you don’t have to post a day late or (blog forbid) miss a week of posting. (I may be speaking from experience here.)

Your mouse hovers over the “Publish” button.  A little voice in the back of your head is screaming, “Don’t do it!” But, your schedule…

You publish and …

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{Blogspiration:} Compare Two Solutions (And Make Sure Yours is Better!)

A great way to introduce (or reintroduce, or re-reintroduce) your product or service to your readers is to compare it to another solution on the market.

There are two ways to go about this.

First, you could describe the Other Solution as the worst thing ever, possibly evil, and definitely bad for puppies and small children.  You can rant and rave if that’s your thing, and create a supervillain for your peeps to hate.  That’s a legitimate way to go …

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