Nine Types of Questions to Ask On Your Facebook Page to Get More Comments
This post is based on episode 183 of the ProBlogger podcast. Do readers engage with your Facebook page? A lot of people spend time on Facebook. And as bloggers, it makes sense that we want to reach them. Unfortunately, it’s increasingly difficult to grow your audience using Facebook – especially if ...more
Social Media
Three Key Things Successful Bloggers Do to Build Their Blogs Into Businesses
This post is based on episode 192 of the ProBlogger podcast. A couple of years ago we published a fantastic guest post from John Stevens on the nine conversion habits of the world’s most successful bloggers. To build a business around your blog you probably need to work on certain things. ...more
Business Blogging
Six Productivity Tips to Help You Build Healthy Habits
Do you struggle with managing your time? As an online entrepreneur it’s easy to slip into bad habits – moving frantically from one urgent thing to another, or responding to other people’s agendas without much thought about what we need to get done. In this post, I’m sharing six things that ...more
Increasing productivity
Finding a Balance Between Family Life and Blogging Life
This post is based on episode 148 of the ProBlogger Podcast. One of the things that attracted me to blogging was the flexibility it offered. I’d be able to work and still be involved in my family and raising my kids. Before we had kids, my wife Vanessa and I planned ...more
Mindset + Motivation
How to Grow Your Blog’s Traffic and Income by Setting Goals
This post is based on episode 135 of the ProBlogger podcast. What does it take to make a full-time living for your blog? I know some bloggers who managed it with hundreds of daily readers, while others needed tens of thousands of daily readers. The amount of money you make from ...more
Making money
The Secrets of Making Money Blogging
This post is based on episode 133 of the ProBlogger podcast. In interviews I often get asked something like, “What’s your number one secret to making money online?” That’s a hard question to answer, because ultimately there’s no one ‘secret’ and no single way to make money online. People use lots ...more
Making money
How to Build Hundreds of Links to Your Blog in 5 Minutes a Day
This post is based on episode 159 of the ProBlogger podcast. Incoming links to your blog are vital. They not only drive traffic to your blog from other websites and blogs but also help you rank higher in search engines, which again leads to more traffic. The method I’m about to ...more
Finding readers
How to Build Trust with Your Blog
This post is based on episode 151 of the ProBlogger podcast. “All things being equal, people will do business with and refer business to those people that they know, like, and trust.” – Bob Burg A big reason many businesses start blogs is to build trust with customers so they ...more
Creating Content
How Being a Good Listener Can Help You Write Effective Sales Copy
This post is based on episode 146 of the ProBlogger podcast. Before you start writing your sales page, promotional blog post, tweets or Facebook updates to sell something, you need to do something else. You need to listen. I first came across this advice many years ago, and since then I’ve ...more
Making money