Why are you in business? Why do you have a website to begin with? Are your goals in alignment with your actions and expectations?
Show Me The Money
Where do profits come in your business? Do they come from “hits” on your website? Do they come from comments on your blog? Probably not. I’ve spent time advising [...]
Blog tips and internet marketing strategies from Christian Russell
Tag Archive: business blogging
Are You Paying Attention To Traffic Instead Of Profits?
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 Grow Your Blogging Business Exponentially
There is a fundamental sales principle that most business owners do not practice. Most of us have heard of it, but few of us actually practice it. I’m honestly not sure why, but it’s true…it’s costly and time consuming to earn new business, yet there’s a very powerful way to grow our business that’s free…that [...]
Selling on Your Blog Ain’t Hard (The Art of Asking for the Order)
Asking for the order is a key sales principle. In fact, it’s a key life principle! If you don’t ask, you don’t get! This can often come off as a “duh” kind of statement. If you want someone to buy from you, you should probably ASK them to buy from you! Agreed?
But year after year, [...]
The Threshold of Success – Why Most Bloggers Never Make It
Success is a nasty, elusive little bugger, isn’t it? Is there a topic in the business space that gets covered more often, directly or indirectly, than “how to succeed”? If you think about it, nearly every how-to tip, every list of the “best Wordpress plugins to use on your site”, every tutorial on how to [...]
Not One Single Thing You Do Will Make You Successful
In my years in business so far, I’ve learned something simple that I have yet not been able to disprove. I have had the pleasure of meeting and staying in touch with some of the world’s most successful salespeople and small business owners. I’ve had dinner with them, hung out with them on boats, gone [...]
5 Books I Recommend About Business Blogging
If you’re like me, reading is a huge way to get new creativity flowing, keep up on changing technologies and expose yourself to new ideas. I find the books I read to be invaluable, as I apply almost everything I read to my business in one way or another.
Here is a recommendation on some reading [...]
Top Myths About Business Blogging
Writing a business blog is a great way to promote your products or services. There’s no doubt about it. There are a large number of professionals and business owners from all different fields who are entering the blogging world, and understandably…they want to get results!
A big part of getting good results from your blog is [...]
100 Awesome Articles to Get You Fired Up and Motivated About Blogging
These are articles I’ve read recently that I found particularly valuable. They are all from blogs I read regularly. As someone who writes a blog, I know it is also essential to read a lot of blogs. I get questions from professionals and business owners about how to get started blogging, and this is always [...]
