Choosing Photos for Your Blog: 3 Copyright Rules to Know
How do you find the right pictures for your blog without running afoul of copyright limitations and usage rights?
Year in Review: The 10 Most-Viewed Beyond Bylines Posts of 2019
These are the top Beyond Bylines posts of 2019. What was your favorite?
The Death of Guest Blogging: Did We Learn Anything?
Don’t underestimate the value of social influence.
Year-End Review: Top 10 Most Viewed Beyond Bylines Posts in 2018
We compiled a list of the Top 10 most viewed posts this year.
Freelancing: Is it ever appropriate to walk away from the money?
Freelancing doesn’t mean free – you don’t want to give away your work. But there are some special cases were it makes sense to forgo the paycheck.
Want to grab your reader’s attention? You must appeal to their emotions.
You don’t need to be manipulative to appeal to your reader’s feelings.
Convert Your Broadcast Voice to Print: 5 Tips From a Former TV Reporter
Journalists, bloggers and content creators must be able tell their stories in all formats. But, the transition isn’t always easy.
Lessons on Influencer Marketing From a Nationally Recognized Wellness Blogger
For influencers, it pays to be popular. But, there’s more to it to make an influencer marketing partnership work.
5 Camera Bag Essentials Every New Photographer Should Own
As a new photographer continues to learn and develop their craft, eventually they’ll get to a point where their equipment gets in the way of producing the images they desire. A decent camera body with a kit lens is enough to get started, but eventually you’ll want to upgrade to take your photography to the…
7 Rules for Creating a Successful Lead Generation Form for Your Blog
Blogging can (and should) do more than just update readers on the latest news and events of the day. When done right, your posts can educate readers, establish you as an authority in your field, and help position you as a go-to resource in your audience’s time of need. But, you don’t want to put all…
Can I Use That Picture? 3 Rules to Ensure Your Blog Isn’t Breaking Copyright Rules
Looking for an image to round out your new post? Make sure you know the rules and if the picture is truly up for grabs.
SEO for Bloggers: 4 Ways to Boost Your Relationship with Search Engines
With Valentine’s Day just behind us, it’s the perfect time to treat your blog to a proper business strategy. Search engine optimization is a good place to start. Search engines are a huge traffic driver if you’re properly indexed and have authority on a topic to rank high in search. So whether you write as…
How to Take Your Blog Audience from Fling to Long-Term Commitment in 10 Steps
The blogging game can look a lot like dating. You put your best self out there into a world of unknowns: people, feelings, expectations, and results. It can feel exciting and scary. It also can feel a bit lonely. But, once you find your confidence and a formula that works, the relationship can quickly move…
How to Grow Your Blog with a Month-by-Month Action Plan
One of the best things about kicking off a new year is that feeling of a fresh start. For bloggers, this is likely when you’re ripe with new ideas. You may start the year ahead of schedule, but once life settles back in, it can be difficult to conceptualize and execute an idea with even…
From the Beyond Bylines Team: Our 2017 Blogging Resolutions
In 2016, the Beyond Bylines team did our best to help you better your writing. We gave you tools and tips. Most recently, it was ways to captivate audience with Instagram Stories. Some of the takeaways there: Do a giveaway, host a poll or quiz, and share Q&As. You can find much more on the…
Step Up Your Digital Media Game With LinkedIn’s Learning Week
This week, October 24-30, LinkedIn is offering free online courses for you to brush up on old skills or gain some new ones.
Breaking Down Media Law & Ethics in the Age of Online Publishing
When a mistake gets into a story, news agencies typically move quickly to correct the record. Attorneys may join the conversation if a grievance reaches a particular level – libel (the story carries false accusations and it damages someone’s reputation) or defamation (true or not, someone’s reputation has been damaged). Complicating things today, we have…
Media Insider: Do Journalism Degrees Matter, How Facebook Swallowed Journalism, and SEO Tips for Blog Beginners
Welcome to Media Insider, PR Newswire’s round up of journalism, blogging and freelancing stories from the week. Memo to Tony Gallagher: Why Journalism Degrees Really Do Matter (The Guardian) Recently, the Sun’s editor, Tony Gallagher, spoke out against the university route into journalism, maintaining journalism is not a profession that requires academic grounding, The Guardian says.…
Media Insider: Essential Journalism Tools, How to Beat Writers’ Block and More Media Moves
Welcome to Around the Wire, PR Newswire’s round up of journalism, blogging and freelancing stories from the week. 10 Essential Tools Every Investigative Reporter Should be Using (International Journalists’ Network) A great resource for journalists, the International Journalist’s Network Research Director Gary Price along with another research editor at The Intercept presents 10 useful tools of…
6 Cool Blog Tools Every Blogger Must Try
In case you felt it was time to spruce up your blog, I stumbled upon a few cool tools that are worth a try. 1. Tweak Your Biz – Title Generator “An outstanding title can increase tweets, Facebook Likes and visitor traffic by 50% or more” claims the website. This tool helps users generate efficient…
