
Discover The “Can’t Miss” Email Technique To Bring Attention To Your Blog
This is a guest contribution by Frank Angelone. It’s safe to assume that you want your blog to succeed, right? It’s easier said than done, but whenever you’re trying to market your blog to others, it can be a very discouraging process. Not only that, as bloggers, we continually suffer from ...more
Blog Promotion

What is Your Posting Rhythm to Social Media?
Last week I was on a panel discussing social media at a conference here in Australia and a question from the floor asked about how often is ideal to post to Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest? I was fascinated to hear the range of answers we gave as panelists and I ...more
Social Media

Google Hangouts: Turning Bloggers into Broadcasters
This is a guest contribution by Sarah Hill, the Chief Digital Storyteller for Veterans United Network. Blogging no longer has to be a text based conversation. Google+ has allowed bloggers to become broadcasters, adding a visual component to each blog post, and all you need to become a “Blogcaster” is a webcam, ...more
Blog Promotion

How I Turned a Guest Post into 3 Million Visitors and Over 150,000 Social Media Shares
Yesterday, I shared a practical exercise for diving deeper into your blog’s analytics to discover how you can use the last month of blog action to plan for the future. Today, I’d like to show you an example of just how powerful this discipline can be when it comes to building traffic ...more
Blog Promotion

EXERCISE: Deep Dive into Your Content Analytics
Today I spent a couple of hours doing my monthly deep dive into Google Analytics. While hardly a day goes by that I don’t check my blogs stats (usually just to see traffic levels and sources of traffic etc) I try to set aside a longer period of time, at ...more
Other Income Streams

8 Steps to Building Your Blog Into a Community
This is a guest contribution from Jonathan Goodman. There are other people blogging about the same subject as you, maybe better or maybe worse—but, as you probably have figured out by now, content is no longer king; context is. Getting repeat readers who become brand ambassadors for you is pertinent to ...more
Build Community

The Secret to Using Your Blog to Generate Sales
This is a guest contribution from Karl Staib of Domino Connection. You’ve probably been at a party where some fool is talking his face off at everyone he meets. He talks about his trip to Spain and how he is such an amazing photographer. He never asks, “What you do or ...more
Blogging for Dollars

11 Quick Tips for Writing Compelling Posts On Your Blog
Yesterday I ran a workshop for a small group of bloggers here in Australia. One of the sessions I covered was on writing compelling content. Here’s a brief look at a few of the recurring themes in what I shared: Be Useful – if your post isn’t informing, inspiring, entertaining ...more
Writing Content

Is Making Money from Blogging Passive Income?
Recently, I attended an event and heard a speaker talk about how they’d build a passive income from blogging. The person sitting next to me leant over toward me and at whispered: “Based on your Twitter Stream, I’m not so sure that blogging is ‘passive’ – is it?” I thought ...more
Blogging for Dollars