Welcome to Hit Subscribe’s weekly digest post! When new posts from our authors pop on blogs, we’d like to start celebrating them and featuring their work here. So check out this week’s work below. A Detailed Guide to PHP Debugging In Phil Vuollet’s post, A Detailed Guide to PHP Debugging on Stackify’s blog, he explains…
When it comes to writing a good blog post (especially a good tech blog post), there’s a lot more that goes into it than you might think. You can’t just write a few paragraphs about your offering on your site and expect that it will get eyeballs and simultaneously convert to sales. Maybe you’ve tried…
In the world of career development, there’s a lot of noise implying that a person has to choose to work either in STEM or humanities fields. And there’s the further implication that people who excel in the humanities fail at STEM, or vice versa. That noise—it’s just noise. Because all over, people are joining those…
Today on the blog, we’re featuring another one of our authors, T.J. Simmons. He was one of our very first authors to join our team, and because of his extensive knowledge and engaging writing style, he’s our go-to guy for data science posts. Some of his other tech specialties include Python, PHP, and JavaScript. T.J. shares…
About a week ago, I made me some internet. More specifically, I went to my favorite hosting platform, SiteGround, bought a domain name, and spun up a WordPress instance. This all took about 15 minutes, and when I was done, we had makemeaprogrammer.com. Let me take a screen capture of the default Lorem Ipsum thing…
Today, we’ve got something a little different on the blog. We’re featuring one of our first authors, who joined Hit Subscribe when it first formed. That author is Christian Meléndez. Christian’s specialties—DevOps, containers, and cloud architecture—have made his writing in high demand from the start. Potential clients see his posts on other sites and ask for him…
When it comes to writing, a few gifted people are able to vomit the Sistine Chapel right onto the page. But if you’re anything like me, writing can be a long, tough process. And the thought of sharing it with someone? Don’t mind me…I’ll just be hiding under the bed. That’s why I’m an editor!…
A Prussian officer by the name of Helmuth von Moltke the Elder once famously said, “No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy.” Roughly a century later, Mike Tyson would appropriate this sentiment to “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” Separated by 100 years and a language, these two…
I’ve been a blogger now for more than seven years. And I have to say, it took me an embarrassingly long time to understand the true nature of the blog post title. My hope today is that you may learn from my folly. There Are Actually (At Least) Three Flavors of Blog Post Title If…
SEO, SEO for techies, techies SEO, SEO in technical blogs, SEO in technical blogs not marketing, techie, techies, SEO… Oh, hi! I didn’t see you there. I was just stuffing this post with keywords in the first paragraph in order to trick Google into ranking this page for the term “SEO for techies.” Or really,…
Hit Subscribe is a content agency, and a growing one at that. Don’t worry. This isn’t going to be a post about how great we think we are, which I’ve advised you not to write in the past. Our growth matters in this context because it’s made me realize that there is something of an…
Because I have some reach in the tech community and blogging is my thing, I find that people reach out to me somewhat regularly. This outreach takes all forms, but of particular interest today is people hoping that I’ll share some post they wrote. Almost invariably, here’s how this goes. An ambitious soul decides that…
Maybe you’ve never heard of blank page syndrome. I mean, it’s a term I made up, so chances are pretty good it’s new to you. But you know what it is, I promise. It’s the feeling of opening up a WordPress draft or a new Word document (or pulling out a fresh sheet of paper,…
Here at Hit Subscribe, our mission involves helping techies and tech companies. We’re techies, our customers are tech companies, and their customers are techies. This means that everyone involved has a strong appreciation for data and empirical concerns. And because of this, our customers disproportionately want to talk to us about blogging ROI. How do…
Sometimes it feels as though cold email is the bane of my existence. This is weird on some deep level. While I do own multiple businesses, making me a frequent target, it’s not as though I spend a ton of time dealing with it. It’s just… well, let’s do this. Take a look at an example. A…