Guest Blogger
How We Generated Our First 100 Sales for Free (and How You Can Too)
This is a guest contribution from Tom Buckland. Getting your first 100 sales is a huge milestone for any online business, and one we’re all quite keen to reach. This article outlines the strategy I used to generate more than 100 sales for my fitness business. The method itself can ...more
Blog Promotion
10 Distractions That Sabotage Your Blogging Success
This is a guest contribution from Peter Banerjea. It’s a thrilling vision, isn’t it? You – a popular blogger. Writing posts that attract dozens of comments and thousands of shares. Your fans waiting with bated breath for your next post to ping into their inboxes. But the reality couldn’t be more ...more
Writing Content
Four Social Media Game-Changers to be on the Lookout For
This is a guest contribution from Raeleen Hooper. Once upon a time, people feared public speaking above all things – even death. But it seems we have a new contender. According to a survey of 1000 people by UK internet security firm SecurEnvoy, two-thirds of people are afflicted by “nomophobia” – ...more
Social Media
5 Ways to Creatively Brainstorm Guest Post Ideas
Despite the rumours, guest posting is still an effective method to link building, getting the word out about your blog or brand, or simply forging relationships in any industry. But that’s only if you go about guest posting correctly: the wrong guest posting approach can get a website penalized, and ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips
7 Steps to Writing Killer Blog Posts That Actually Get Noticed – and Read!
This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. With billions of pages circulating around in cyberspace, chances are most of the content you produce is invisible and irrelevant. This isn’t a knock on your writing ability or creativity, it’s simply the truth. The majority of bloggers write about the same ...more
General
How to Improve your SEO by Speeding up Your WordPress Website
This is a guest contribution from Tracey Jones. Have you been reading up on all those facts about how sites with slower page load times (more than 3 seconds) have higher bounce rates? Or how Google ranks slow loading pages lower than those that load fast? If you are alarmed ...more
General
The 3-Step Keyword Research Formula To Cast A Tsunami Of Search Traffic On Your Blog
This is a guest contribution from Tim Soulo. First of all, don’t panic. I’m not going to overwhelm you with time-consuming, overly complicated keyword research strategies. As a blogger myself, I appreciate actionable, no-nonsense techniques that help me start driving traffic, fast. This post will outline one such technique. I’m ...more
General
5 Quick Tips to Make Your Copy Shorter and Snappier
This guest post is by Dan Kaufman of Media Survival. Most people don’t read online – they scan. They read the first few words of a sentence and, if they don’t like it, they’ll start scanning the page looking for something else that might help them. This was the verdict from ...more
Writing Content
The Content Creation Formula for Successful Online Marketing
This is a guest contribution from Kenneth Waldman. Online marketing can be an impossible task without quality content. There is so much content online to start with, and social media algorithms are making that content harder and harder to see. The question we are all asking ourselves is how can we ...more
General