Making money with a blog really has to be one of the biggest concerns out there I suppose, so I want to address it directly. There are different approaches of course, and I can only speak to the techniques I’ve personally employed, what has worked well for me and what HASN’T worked well for me. [...]
Category Archives: Blog tips
Tips on Writing Your About Page
On a blog, it’s important to think of every page as a landing page. Every page on your site is an opportunity to convert a visitor or lose them. This is true of your front page, each post and each page on your site. Writing your “About” page is a sticky subject for some bloggers [...]
A Few Simple Tweaks to Ramp Up Your Blog
If you’re running a blog for your business, it’s important to think of every page, every post you publish as an opportunity to either ramp up your business or lose ground. Every page on your site will either produce comments and other forms of interaction with your visitors, or it will fail in this regard. [...]
Why Blogging and Bodybuilding are Both Seriously Broken
Here’s what is wrong with this whole blogging business…the advice most blogging A-listers can offer you is hugely valuable, but if you don’t put things into context, you are WASTING YOUR TIME. Context is everything! Without context, the information is useless, and that is a problem you need to address if blog marketing is part [...]
Why Simple Blogs are Better for Business
When it comes to so many things in life, we over-complicate. Wouldn’t you agree? Don’t you think we do this with blogging as well? We make it way too hard.
We run too many plugins
We push ourselves to post more often than we really want to
We spend too much time on our blog
We [...]
How to Turn Wordpress into Your Unfair Advantage (a primer on business blogging)
If you run a business, it’s no longer a secret that you should also be running a business blog. When it comes to social media for business, your blog is most often the most valuable component of your marketing strategy. The most favored platform for a business blog is Wordpress. There are a number of [...]
How Does Your Blog Measure Up to These Questions?
Blogging is a powerful tool to build and promote your business. But as is the case with all things worth doing, there is always a better way…don’t you agree? There are definitely things to look for that you can improve, and there are a lot of common little mistakes you can avoid to help yourself [...]
Serious Blogging Results in 11 Steps
I just needed to take a second to acknowledge some downright rockin content by Jason Baer over at Convince and Convert. This slide show says it all, so I’ll leave this one short and let you enjoy it. It’s full of straight-to-the-point blog tips that will get you results. I just want to point out [...]
Blogging is Not for Quitters
These are my blogging tips for the day…quitting too soon is one of the most common tragedies in business today. Whatever stage you’re at, there are frustrations. Here’s a secret: when you get to the next level, there will be MORE frustrations, not fewer frustrations. Your frustrations will be bigger, not smaller. Success has a [...]
An Undeniable Traffic Building Tool for Wordpress Blog
If you happen to be reading this in a feed that doesn’t support video, click here to see the video! I really do appreciate this plugin and recommend popping it into your blog at your earliest convenience. I get great traffic every day as a result of using it. It’s automatic, and it’s free. Let [...]