
Boost Conversions Step 1: Review Your Offer
This guest post is by the Blog Tyrant. A few weeks ago I was sitting down to dinner with my big sister, and talking about one of my web businesses. “What’s your quotation success rate?” she asked me with a face full of pizza. “Pretty good,” I replied, sounding—I admit—pretty stupid. ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

Conversion Optimization: Our New Series
Of all the topics that bloggers ask me about, conversion optimization is among those at the top of the list. All of us have conversion goals of some sort. It doesn’t matter whether you’re aiming to make money blogging, or you’re in it purely for pleasure, you’ll probably want to ...more
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5 Fantastic Reasons You Should Attend a Blogging Conference
This guest post is by Ceri Usmar of Enduracom. I know what you’re thinking… Who has time for a conference? You do! You can and should carve out the time for some professional development, and conferences are a great opportunity to combine work and play. I headed off to the SheCon ...more
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The Naked Marketing Guide to Getting Dramatically More Traffic and Subscribers
This guest post is by Danny Iny of Firepole Marketing. Let’s be real for a second. There’s a lot of information out there about traffic. Tons of it. Entire blogs. Some good, some bad, and some just in between. And tons of posts about it, too—including right here on this blog. ...more
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Secure Your WordPress Blog Without Touching Any Code
This guest post is by Karol K of ThemeFuse. Right now WordPress powers 48 of the top 100 blogs online. More than that, WordPress actually powers 19% of the web as a whole. Essentially, this is great. Such a strong community of users and developers means that the platform is ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

5 Surefire Ways to Never Get Noticed by Anybody
This guest post is by Steve of thecodeofextraordinarychange.com. I’m a quiet man. Shy in some circumstances. I like my own company and my own time. Left unchecked, these qualities would be enough to ensure that I lived out the rest of my life as a small man in a tiresome job, never ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

What Blog Products Are You Working On?
At the start of this month, I began releasing details of this year’s ProBlogger Training Day. This is a big event for me and my team, and there’s a lot to organize. The Training Day won’t take place until October, but already we’ve spent months organizing speakers, booking venues, releasing ...more
Blogging for Dollars

14 Proven Ways to Simplify Your Blogging and Get More Done
This guest post is by Nick Thacker of Livehacked.com. We’ve all had that feeling of impending doom: “My readers are expecting me to post tomorrow, but I haven’t even answered my emails, check my Analytics stats, or responded to the Twitter shout-outs. There’s just no way I can get it ...more
Miscellaneous Blog Tips

A Technophobe’s No-tears Guide to Podcasting
This guest post is by Carol Tice of Make a Living Writing. You’ve probably heard that adding multimedia to your blog is a great way to grow your audience. But if you’re like me, and technology makes you assume the fetal position and cry like an overtired baby, you may have ...more
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