This guest post is by Timo Kiander of Productivesuperdad.com.Are you afraid that you’ll never reach blogging success? Are you working your backside off on top of your day job to produce articles, ebooks, videos, and podcasts, and learn everything about Pinterest (or any other social network for that matter)?Do you feel you are running on a blogging treadmill like a hamster but never giving yourself time to rest and recover?If this is you, then welcome to the club! I have been there, done that,...
Saturday, June 2, 2012
Video Starting Points: Make and Share Your First Video
This guest post is by Neil Davidson of My Web Presenters.In November of 2011 David Hsieh, VP of Marketing at Cisco famously stuck his neck out by proclaiming that 90% of internet traffic will be viewing video in three years’ time.The actual figure is already 51% of traffic, and it’s climbing fast....
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 all done…”Or something like that.If you’ve ever felt like the pressures of maintaining a blog—not to mention the rest of your business—are becoming too much, it could be time to simplify what you’re doing. Here are...
5 Lessons Steve Jobs Could Teach You About Creating a Popular Blog
This guest post is by Greg Digneo of Sales Leads in 30 Days.“What can I learn from the business life of Steve Jobs that will help me grow my blog?”We’ve all asked ourselves the question. Because the public nature of blogging goes against his strict privacy policy, this isn’t an easy question to answer. But it’s one that I couldn’t get out of my head.There has to be something to learn from a guy who revolutionized multiple industries and created two iconic companies. Look beyond his temperamental...
Friday, June 1, 2012
How to Use Data to Enrich Your Content
This guest post is by Conor Powers-Smith of Factbrowser.com.Blog posts, whitepapers and other shareable content rely on supporting data—not because people just love a good color-coded pie chart (though they are pretty), but because numbers give stories shape. They add scale. They provide perspective. They quantify that something meaningful is happening.Think about it: which statement would you rather share?Teenagers are texting like crazy, more than ever.The average teen sends 60 texts per...
Use Monroe’s Motivated Sequence to Call Your Readers to Action
This guest post is by Sean Davis of SDavisMedia.com.Blogs do not produce income. Simply writing and publishing content does not increase your bank account balance.The idea that money is a direct result of blogging is a myth that the best bloggers have dismissed, but most choose to treat it as a law of the blogosphere.What a shame.Many new bloggers will jump out of their online careers just as quickly as they jumped into them when they realize that it’s not enough to simply create content.There...
Get Obsessed with Your Message
This guest post is by Danielle LaPorte of DanielleLaPorte.com.Blog = up? Posts = rolling? It’s time to get obsessed with your message.A quick dictionary moment, to differentiate between your voice, your topics and your message.Your voice is what makes your writing distinctive, compelling, unmistakably you. You’ll carry your voice from your blog, right into your book. Seamless, identifiable. Individual.Your topics are the categories or subjects you write about (Eco-luxe weddings on a shoestring...
On the Elusive “Next Level” of Blogging
We’ve all heard of it—the elusive “next level” that so many bloggers talk about online.But what is the next level? How many levels are there? Is there an end point in leveling up?These are all worthwhile questions—especially for more experienced bloggers who have spent a lot of time and energy in reaching the level they’re already at. For these bloggers, trying to reach the next level can involve a degree of risk, so the steps that get us toward the next level might be taken slowly and with care.On...
Grab Your BWE Virtual Ticket for $100 Off—24 Hours Left
Wish you could get to Blog World Expo this year, but can’t make it to New York? Me too.I’ll be in Queensland with the winners of my blogging competition, but I know there are plenty of bloggers from other countries, as well as within the States, who won’t be able to attend Blog World this year.Fortunately,...
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 earlybird tickets, and so on.Around the same time I put out a call for alpha testers on the new ProBlogger Marketplace we’ve been working on.Something that occurred to me as I was busily preparing these announcements...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)