All business writing has one goal and that’s to persuade someone to do something. Whether you’re writing a blog post or sales copy, you want your audience to act. Persuasive writing can often be the most difficult type of writing, especially when the average person is barraged daily by a never-ending flow of information.  Follow these tips to become a more successful business copywriter, one whose readers not only read your entire email but also follow-through with the requested action.

Starting a design related blog has to be one of my biggest accomplishments as a developer and it has also become a tool to help me learn more about web design and development (I even list nenuno on my CV!). What my ambitions were for nenuno at the beginning have totally been blown out of the water as to what you see today.

But if you are just starting out in the design niche of blogging or planning to start your own, here are a few of my thoughts on what I’ve learnt whilst running nenuno on a daily basis and I will discuss on what I could have done differently along the way.

Five years is eons in Internet (Internet)  time, and a lot has changed in the blogosphere since 2005. Sites have been born, sites have died, sites have grown up and others have faded away. Entirely new blogging formats have been created and business empires have been built on the foundations of humble blog beginnings.

Today’s blogosphere is larger and more diverse than it was five years ago, and yet only a few blogs — the so-called “A-listers” — have risen to a place of dominance in the new media landscape. The blogosphere of 2010 is also powered in many ways by social media, something that barely existed five years ago, and was likely an afterthought to most hobbyist bloggers of the day.

WordPress is a very popular blogging platform that runs millions of blogs. But, what if it doesn’t meet your needs? Just because tons of people use it doesn’t mean it will be right for you. Here are 7 solutions to help you find your own advanced blogging solution. These CMS’s (Content Management Systems) will offer you a lot of options and features – but it’s important to weigh pro’s and con’s when choosing the right system. Most of these work in the same manner; you’ll have to download and upload the files to your server (some need a database to work), and then go through an install and configure the system. Later, there should be some kind of extensions you’ll be able to add – such as themes, plugins, modules, sections – and a lot more.

Writing is an art, and like any other art one must be properly trained to do so. I started writing sometime back and was really happy about my work until all the readers laughed at my work and made fun on each and every thing I did. My writing wasn’t well presented and didn’t have headings, I made long “very informative” paragraphs but nobody cared to read them. This made me research all about good writing practices, tools and resources.

There are ample of writers (including me) who do numerous mistakes while writing and don’t even know where they are falling short. Here, I have tried to investigate all the common faults done by writers and now putting them here. Go through them and do tell me if I have missed out any fault. Bad writing may be negated at initial stages but only by practice and conscious effort can the faults be removed.

So you just got word that your guest post has been published on that high-ranking site. Your fingers are totally crooked after keeping them crossed for so long. Finally, your hard work is going to pay off today – or at least you’re hoping.

Your post may do well and go totally viral on its own. It may get tons of comments  and retweets without you ever lifting another finger. Or it could totally fizzle and produce record-breaking low views for that poor blog.

In order to be effective as a blogger and get the result you want, you have to optimize your time. Time is without a doubt the most important aspect of a successful web business. We have tons of posibilities to save time but one of the most important is the time you spend on writing your articles. I can’t help you with your words but I can suggest you some Blog Writing applications to help you write your articles much faster and easier.

Does a blank page scare you? It doesn’t matter if it is created by a word processing application, sitting in a typewriter or resting under your pen. Can you fill that void?

Don’t be ashamed if you are nervous. It happens to a lot of people who don’t consider themselves very good writers. The good news is that not a lot of readers are critics. They’re not reading to find fault or grade you on word choice. Unless you are in school.

If you’re attending a conference or other event related to your blog’s niche, you might want to consider live blogging from the event. Live blogging is basically just posting regular updates to your blog as the event is taking place, rather than blogging about it after the fact.

Live blogging can be a very valuable resource to your readers if done right. If you take the time and keep focused throughout an event to provide useful information to your readers, they’ll often consider your blog the go-to place for event coverage in your industry. If it’s done poorly, though, all those blog posts will likely just be looked at as filler or fluff by your readers, and may even annoy some to the point they unsubscribe from your RSS feed.

You will quickly see that the competition to get readers to your blog can be a hard nut to crack. No matter what topics you chose to write about, you will see that the list of competing websites are many. Here are a list of twelve tips that can help you getting more readers, and maybe in the end even make money from your blogging.

The Internet is packed with opportunities for unique, influential, and ambitious people to succeed. From would-be bloggers to potentially successful entrepreneurs, the number of people sharing the common goal of online success is staggering – a number rivaled only by the number of people wishing they knew how to achieve it.

Over the last month, I, with my business partner, Matty Craig, have seen online success — albeit on a much smaller scale than some of the Internet’s leading blogs or authoritative websites.