Guest Blogger
Making Money Online – The NEW Standard
A Guest contribution from Nick Thacker from www.LiveHacked.com. I’ve been a leech for most of my life. By “leech,” of course, I mean I’ve basically existed online as the type of person who consumes considerably more than I’ve created. But this year things changed. I was, and still am, a ...more
General
How to Get More Content for Your Blog
This is a guest post by Kristi Hines. One of the biggest challenges that bloggers face – whether they are blogging for themselves or their business – is creating enough content. Most people can’t just write a blog post in 15 minutes. Creating quality content takes a major investment of ...more
Writing Content
Broaden Your Blog’s Reach Through Innovative Content [Case Study]
This guest post is by Tommy Walker of Inside The Mind. Back in November last year, we ran a crowd funding campaign to bring back Inside The Mind for a second season. Even though we didn’t reach our overall campaign goals, we learned two very important things: 1. Unexpected success Our campaign converted at ...more
Writing Content
How My Old Blog Post Got Half a Million Pinterest Views [Case Study]
There’s a lot of information on the web, including ProBlogger, on how to maximize Pinterest to get traffic to your site. Between tutorials on how to optimize Pinterest as part of your social media marketing strategy, Darren’s own experiment on Pinterest, how to create Pinterest-worthy graphics, and how to run ...more
Social Media
Heavyweight Help: The Complete Guide to Getting Started on Pinterest
Do you lie in bed at night dreaming of getting a link from some high-profile blog like ProBlogger that would send you thousands of visitors and give your blog the exposure you need to take it to the next level? I’d rather have Pinterest. Don’t get me wrong: I’d love ...more
Featured Posts
The 3 Emails You Must Send During a Launch … and a Fresh Alternative for Bloggers
Are you ready to launch a product from your blog? Not an affiliate product, but something you created with your own flesh and blood? After many late nights spent honing that ebook, ecourse, or coaching program? Whatever it is, if you’re ready to release that puppy, then it’s time to ...more
Blog Promotion
Common Creativity: Understanding the Rules and Rights Around “Free” Images on the Web
We’re all familiar with the old adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. In some cases, a picture is worth a thousand dollars. Luckily, for those of us not interested in investing a small fortune for the use of an image on a small scale, there are options. Sites ...more
Blog Design
Four New Ways to Monetize a Blog
The ad industry is dead. Target will only buy remnant inventory. Federated Media, the darling of the online ad world, is just about vaporized. And media behemoth IAC is building a state-of-the-art ad sales system that will work like a trading floor where you don’t even know what content you’re ...more
Blogging for Dollars
Want a More Productive Week? Clean Your Darn Desk!
Has anyone seen that phone number for my interview? I know I printed out a good-looking blog layout but I can’t seem to find it. I know I have that blog idea somewhere in this mess; was it written on a napkin? It’s referenced in a newspaper clipping, but which ...more
Be Productive