I will answer the video question about the images first … I do have one somewhere and will upload it to YouTube but if I can’t find it, will create a new one, just for you!

Regarding “finding your voice,” the authoritative tone is the one that comes from you. Trust me, I have an MBA and they forced me to write in the third person for 4 whole years! I couldn’t wait until I no longer had the Dr’s on my back marking me down for being authentic.

I personally find that when people write in the thrid person, it tends to be boring and lacks the ability to enable the reader to frame what you are saying and relate it to them. Marketing is all about relatioinships and, I can’t build a relationship with the third person.

It’s down to personal choice, but for me, if I started writing in the 3rd person again, I know I wouldn’t connect with my audience.

Try it and see!

I just stumbled upon you on YouTube and was so impressed with your delivery of quality information I was compelled to search you out so I could bookmark your website.

I am relatively new to blogging and trying to “find my voice”. I’m in the health & fitness niche with “low back pain” being my micro-niche. I can’t decide whether to make my blog posts in 1st person or write them in a more authoritative tone. Reading your blog posts, I really like your style of writing and your use of first person to deliver a more personal/conversational tone.

I want to deliver more content (at least 2 – 3 posts per week) on my blog but the research involved to publish the posts that address various health issues are taking me a week or two to finalize. I consider myself to be fairly good at writing but my perfectionist nature is conflicting with my need to increase the quantity of posts on my blog (quality vs. quantity). Is there a template or outline you could recommend I use to help me become more proficient at turning out quality blog posts with great content?

I found you this morning when I went onto YouTube looking for a good video that shows how to upload/insert an image or photo into my blog post and get the text to “wrap” around it. I’m having no luck! No matter where I align it . . . left, right or center. The text borders the top and bottom but DOES NOT wrap around the image/photo. Do you have a video that addresses this issue for WordPress.org bloggers? I am using the free WordPress “Amazing Grace” theme.

Thanks, Trish!
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Like you said though, it takes more than one visit to the gym to get fit and, if you’re overweight, it takes more than one day of sensible eating and exercise to shift the excess weight that you have accumulated over months and years in some people’s case.

Thanks for your contribution Gavin. I know how hard you’ve worked on your online business and it’s paying off and there is more to come!

Trish
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Great post as always and you hit on a very important point here which is that (virtually) nothing worth having comes easily. People want to think that they can get fit with one visit to the gym. They won’t. People want to think they will be more successful at work for staying late one night. They won’t. And people think that they can fling up a one-page blog and people will come. They won’t.

Success is about consistency and consistency is about deciding what is worth doing and doing it over and over. Blogging is not just about search engine rankings. Blogging is also about credibility, about building up a market and about sharing your expertise.

As I have said before, blogging is not for the faint-hearted. Like many things in life, you get out of it what you put in.
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