A lot of people who registered into weight loss programs failed woefully.

The program wasn’t the problem, neither is the fitness expert. We experience failure in life and business when excuses take the place of hard work and proper planning.

When you allow excuses to dominate the fabrics of your business, stagnation and failure begins to set in and that’s when you feel like giving up. I want to share with you the 3 weight loss excuses that sabotage blogging success.

Why Weight Loss In A Blogging Article?

It’s uncommon to find weight loss tips in a blogging article. Blogging and weight loss are interwoven and if you’re observant enough, you would see the major features of working-out and dieting in your blogging business.

When you want to lose weight, the fitness expert would instruct you on what to do.

There are guidelines to losing weight and if you’re not disciplined enough, none of the vegetables and high-intense exercise would work.

It takes focus, discipline and obedience to burn excess fats off the body. The same thing applies to blogging, if you aren’t disciplined and hard working; you may never make a dime. Here are the three weight loss excuses you should eliminate:.

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Greetings blog readers, it’s been a little while since I last did one of these posts that shows you the previous weeks top posts, so I thought just for a change I would post one up today.

It seems that over the last week the “How To…” posts have dominated the most read posts here on the Blazing Minds blog, which just goes to show that people are always on the look out to learn something out.

What else was shown from the top posts is that the “How To…” posts were mainly based on Twitter, which always seems to be a stable flow here on Blazing Minds, with a lot of the Twitter posts pulling in a lot of views from the ever-growing Twitter users.

So let’s get on to the top posts that were being read here on Blazing Minds in the last week

1. How To Write a Twitter Bio That Gains You More Followers
2. How To Find Out Who Unfollowed You on Twitter
3. How To Remove Loads of Direct Messages on Twitter!
4. HOW TO: Find The Missing Complete My Album Option On iTunes
5. How To Select All Your Facebook Friends When Inviting Them to a Page or Group etc

It all goes to show that if you write something on your blog that is of interest and of help to your readers, then these will be the blog posts that will be popular, time and time again.

Over the last few months the number one posts has been How To Write a Twitter Bio That Gains You More Followers and is pulling in readers from all over the world, it’s become so popular that it’s one of the few posts that I make an effort to update now and again to improve on it and to help new and seasoned tweeters.

So a big thanks to everyone that has read the top posts and to those that have ReTweeted and sharied them via the many social network sites, it’s your help that has made these posts popular.

I’ve been a member of Blog Engage since the early start-up days and it’s always been one of my favourite places to find interesting articles to read and also give me a wonderful way of getting my latest blog posts out to the blogging world via the RSS Subscription service that pulls in your latest posts and publishes them not only on Blog Engage but also on a number of other good page ranked sites.

Blog Engage Lights Up Your Blog To The World

So now I would like to bring to your attention an amazing offer that Blog Engage is running for all your bloggers out there in bloggerville, Blog Engage are now having a Bonus offer for the rest of the entire month. If you sign up to our $4.99 Gold or $9.99 Platinum membership, Blog Engage  will offer the following deal to all new customers.

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It’s no longer news that online backup system is vital to every business model.

Whether you’re a real estate broker, account personnel, a website developer or our dearest WordPress blogger, we’ve been advised on countless occasions to backup our data so that we can restore and get back strong and efficient.

Even at this, some bloggers have neglected this aspect of their business. They’ve forgotten that writing is just an ‘arm’ of blogging. The ultimate portion of blogging is to be there when your readers and prospects arrive. If you plan to do this half-baked, then get ready for total failure – and this is the wrong way to actually blog in today’s world.

After looking at this topic, I deduced the top 5 reasons some bloggers neglect online backup systems. If you find any of these reasons lurking around your career, make a change today. Let’s go:

1.    Bloggers procrastinate

“Procrastination is killer of time” and according to one famous author, he advised us to ‘eat up that frog; procrastination.’ A lot of bloggers when asked what expectations they have in their career will present you with endless list.

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Online meeting for business, what’s that?

Sharing Innovation - Web conferencing across Campuses (Photo credit: Steven Parker)

It’s the right time to talk about your success, failures, what you’re doing right and the wrong steps you’ve taken. If you don’t orchestrate this into your subsequent steps, success will be too far to handle. That’s why online meetings are powerful and fun to think about.

Interestingly, the Stone Age men were men of decisions. They thought about stones and how to generate flash of fire with it. Today, we can trigger fire at will but it was a pain in their ass at that time.

Whatever you can talk about and communicate to others in an interesting way is bound to reshape either gradually or instantaneously. Now, below are ways to make your online meetings worthwhile and successful.

1.    Start With The End In Mind

What do you want to achieve in your online meeting?

This should be considered even before you begin. It’s going to make the conversation breathtaking and promising. When you’re organizing an online meeting, the sole aim is to solve problem that’s looming or visible.

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As some of you know I have entered the $500 USD BlogEngage contest over at BlogEngage, I’ve got my fingers crossed and hopefully I’ve been doing well in the competition and have been in with a chance of winning one of the prizes.

Any way here are the entrants so far, including myself that are in the current running for the $500 USD Feb 2012 Guest Blogging Contest, check them out and please don’t forget to stop by my article and show your support for me and the Blazing Minds blog, don’t know why I’m saying that as I know you will anyway.

So have a look at some of the great fellow bloggers in the contest and happy reading and ReTweeting, Liking, Stumbling, voting and so on and so forth.

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Let me just start by saying that if you are reading this blog post then you are most probably a blogger or are interesting in blogging, so welcome to my book review of Blogging The Essential Guide by Antonia Chitty & Erica Douglas.

Blogging is something that a lot of us do these days, being it for personal insights, fun or maybe as part of a business, but sometimes it can be a little hard starting out and joining the many other bloggers that have built up their reputations and blog readers, so having a guide by your side to help you along the way is a must.

Blogging The Essential Guide – Blazing Minds Book Review

So recently I was sent preview copy of a book from Need 2 Know Books which will be released in March, so I’ve had the chance to check out the book before it’s released, so I was happy to check out the book and give you, my readers, a first look and my thoughts on Blogging The Essential Guide.
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