How to Turn Your Business Blog Readers Into Paying Customers
This is a guest contribution from Alicia Rades. You started a blog for your business because you recognized the importance of content marketing. You know that businesses that blog get more traffic than those that don’t. But more traffic doesn’t necessarily mean more customers. You have to be able to leverage ...more
Making money
Discover a New Way to Protect Yourself from Data-Loss Nightmares
How do you backup your computer/s? This past month I’ve changed my approach and I wish I’d done it earlier. In this article I’ll tell you why I’ve switched. For many years I’ve used hard drives onsite at my house and have then backed up those drives to others offsite at ...more
Understand Technology
How to Build a Blog that Has Lasting Impact Upon Its Readers
If you want to have a blog that makes a difference in the lives of those who read it, I would highly recommend getting clarity around these three simple (yet powerful) questions: Who are your readers? What do they need? How will they change as a result of reading your ...more
Finding readers
How to Be a Purple Cow Blogger
One of the common mistakes that I see in many blogs is that they are quite simply unremarkable. We’ve all seen seen these blogs – (and most of us if we’re honest will admit to having written them at some point) – they are the blogs you look at for ...more
Blog Promotion
11 Ways to Create More Compelling Content for Your Blog
Today I wanted to share some tips on how you can make your content more compelling, whether it’s written, video or audio content. I’m mixing things up and testing out my new camera to create some video content for the blog. For those of you interested in the production aspects ...more
Creating Content
5 Mistakes Bloggers are Making with Online Courses
By ProBlogger expert Sam Nordberg. Online courses are the hottest thing right now. Everyone seems to be launching their own course, and looking for ways to make what they believe is “passive income” – but here are five of the biggest makes people are making with their online courses right ...more
Blogging for Dollars
How I Turned One Blog Post Into a 7-Figure Business (And How You Can Capitalize on Going Viral)
In 2013, I experienced a writer’s dream come true. My blog post, 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don’t Do, went viral. And not just a little viral, it went mega-viral. It was read by millions of people in a matter of days. And then Forbes.com picked it up and it ...more
Blog Promotion
Seven Types of Product You Could Sell From Your Blog
It took me nearly seven years of blogging to create my first products: two ebooks, one for ProBlogger and one for Digital Photography School. They made me more than $160,000 in 2009 alone and changed my business. Back in 2014, I wrote about the experience, and how it nearly never ...more
Blogging for Dollars
How to Go Beyond Blogging and Harness Multi-Channel Marketing
Scrupulous readers should have noticed that blogging is not just about writing and getting their opinions, rants and random stuff online. In fact, a blog is just a tool for publishing and conversing online. Every opportunity to enhance communication and reach out through various media should not be taken lightly. ...more
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