8 Reasons You’re Losing Money On Your Blog
This is a guest contribution from Larry Alton. You spend hours and hours of time each week on your blog, but at the end of the month, there’s nothing to show for it in your bank account. In fact, after you add up all of the expenses associated with maintaining ...more
Blogging for Dollars
One (Surprising) Blogging Resolution You Should Make for 2022
It’s the start of a brand new year, and chances are that at some point you made some New Year’s resolutions. As a blogger, you may have set yourself some goals (SMART goals are something I recommend) such as: “I want to double my traffic.” “I want to create an ...more
Strategy & Planning
How to Set SMART Goals for Your Blog in 2022
This post is based on episode 218 of the ProBlogger podcast. It’s been a very long year, and like most people you probably can’t wait for it to be over. And with the new year just around the corner, now is a good time to set yourself some blogging goals ...more
General
Evaluating Your Blog’s First Year: 12 Great Questions to Ask
I originally wrote this review process for bloggers who had started a blog through our Start a Blog Course however this is the same process that I go through EVERY YEAR for my own blogs and I’m sure it will help you too! Firstly … congratulations on making ...more
Start a Blog
Say Goodbye to Bad Habits: Five You Should Ditch in the New Year
I don’t know about you, but it’s around this time of year when I start thinking about all the things that didn’t quite work out over the last 12 months in my blogging efforts. Things I got wrong, things I didn’t try hard enough on, things I know I should ...more
Be Productive
Five Steps to Have Your Blog Run Without You Over The Holidays
This is a guest contribution from The Suitcase Entrepreneur, Natalie Sisson. December is a special time of the year. It’s a time for reflection, for planning and for new beginnings. It’s also an excellent time to do some serious (but fun) overhauls of your existing blog and business, in ...more
Be Productive
How to Eliminate the Echo Chamber and Add New Dimensions to Your Blog
One of the better posts I always remember reading is by Chris Pirillo writing about ways to eliminate the ‘echo chamber’. It’s a post that I’m sure many bloggers will find a challenge (I know I did). Here are his main points (in bold) with a few comments of my ...more
Creating Content
What My 4-Year-Old Son Taught Me About Successful Blogging
This story goes back to when my eldest (now 15-year-old) son was just a toddler and I delivered a Keynote at BlogWorld Expo, where I told how my son reminded me of a powerful principle of successful blogging. So many people have since told me how much they enjoyed and ...more
Video Posts
Are You Spreading Yourself Too Thinly?
Today I want to share one last way to let your blog go to round off our 10 part series. It’s something that has at times almost brought my own blogging to a grinding halt. Problem Taking on too many projects and stretching yourself too thinly. There’s a fine line ...more
Be Productive