
Build Blog Products That Sell 6: Tell the World
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the final installment in our hexalogy, concerning how to sell blog products in an era when people are reaching into their pockets and finding mostly lint. So far, we’ve discussed how to plan out products drawn from your ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Nine Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post—Fast
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Did your latest post get all the readers, comments and tweets that it deserved? Probably not. You wrote a great piece, but somehow, it seemed bland. Your ideas were good, but the post lacks a little something. What you need is ...more
Creating Content

Build Blog Products That Sell 5: Finding Customers
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. History dictates that the current economic malaise will eventually end, but we’re still waiting for some unambiguous signs. That’s why for the past few weeks, we’ve been learning how to create products that are inspired by (and that tie into) ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Build Blog Products That Sell 4: Price Your Product
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. If you’re late to this particular party, we’ve been spending the last few weeks examining ways to monetize your blog in an era when readers are holding onto their wallets more tightly than ever. Sure, you can make money by ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Build Blog Products That Sell 3: Develop Your Product
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Welcome to the third weekly instalment in our series on how to sell products of your own creation, via your blog, in a world in which everyone’s reluctant to spend money. If you’ve been following the series so far, then ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Build Blog Products That Sell 2: Analyze the Market and Competitors
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from many, it’s research. —Attributed to Wilson Mizner (1876-1933), among others …Or you can take it a step further. If you research many, and then forge something original, your readers will take notice. And ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Build Blog Products That Sell 1: Match a Unique Idea to Your Audience
This guest series is by Greg McFarlane of Control Your Cash. How do you get readers to part with their money, especially when said money is scarce? This year has been particularly tough for businesses and individuals who are all dealing with rising interest rates and cost of living pressures. It’s ...more
Blogging for Dollars

Using Categories and Tags Effectively on Your Blog
This post on using Tags and Categories on a blog was originally written by Michael Martin from ProBlog Design and updated recently by the ProBlogger team. Categories and tags are essential for blogs and content organization for many reasons: SEO Benefits: Categories and tags help search engines understand the structure ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

How to Turn a Blog Post into a Press Release
This guest post is by Erika Gimbel, a Chicago freelance writer. If you’re an ace at writing blog copy, you can write an excellent press release. Both have many of the same elements: strong headlines, top-down format (most important stuff up front), etc. You already know that press releases are ...more
Blog Promotion