Guest Blogger
How to Squeeze the Most out of Your Facebook Posts
This is a guest contribution by Nick Stillman from If You Build It. Facebook is an unbelievably potent marketing tool when used correctly. It is the largest social network in the world, with almost 1.60 billion active users every months – that’s nearly 20% of the entire global population. Squeezing The Most ...more
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How to Create a Backup and Disaster Recovery Plan for Your WordPress Blog
This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. Have you ever lost something important? Maybe your computer froze just before you hit “save” on a document, or maybe a sudden accidental coffee spill fried your hard drive. Whatever the problem may be, without a backup of information contained on a ...more
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How to Use Affiliate Programs to Boost Your Income Stream
Affiliate marketing can often go two ways – it can crawl along earning you a frustrating few cents here and there, or it can be a healthy part of your overall earnings (just look at Pat Flynn!) when done right. If you are not familiar with the concept you can learn ...more
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How to Use Your Inner Contrarian to Generate Endless Content Ideas
This is a guest contribution from Matt Clough. Whether your blog falls within a niche with apparently endless opportunities or a dreaded “boring” one, the one thing that all bloggers (and writers in general) come up against at some point or another is writer’s block. You might have covered every conceivable ...more
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11 Steps to Growth Hack Your Way to Blogging Success
So you want to blog. Why? Do you own an ecommerce business and need a site-based blog to bring in more traffic? Do you want to start a standalone blog and make money? Or do you want to freelance blog for other blogs? Whatever your purpose, if you are going ...more
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How to Make Your Blog a Cybersecurity Fortress
This is a guest contribution from Cassie Phillips. Problogger is where I learned a lot of my own blogging skills, and I cannot compliment Darren enough for creating a space for bloggers that focuses on real improvement and in-depth conversation. Posts on the website such as this one on improving ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
How to Create a Bridge Business That Will Take You From Now to Your Dream Job
This is a guest contribution from Bryanna Royal. You spend every day going to your 9 to 5 job, but you know there’s something more out there for you. Maybe it’s starting a blog – a travel blog, a lifestyle blog, a food blog. Whatever it may be, you know it isn’t ...more
Blogging for Dollars
5 Ways to Be Comfortable on Camera So You Can Make More Money with Your Blog
This is a guest contribution from Nathan Agin. Sometimes you’re just terrified. It’s not a matter of passion or knowledge—you have written plenty on your blog in the past, and people can’t shut you up once you get started. But now, you’re face-to-face with the camera, and you just freeze ...more
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Everything Bloggers Need to Consider for Their April Content Calendar
This is a guest contribution from Jennifer Johnson. Creating amazing content for your blog or social media accounts is only half the battle – the other half is making sure people see the content. And a major factor of that is timeliness. Timeliness represents a key characteristic of what engages ...more
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