Now that you're getting your articles up on some high profile site you need to be able to take advantage of the traffic those sites see. The best way to take advantage of the traffic possibilities is to create a compelling resource box (sometimes known as author's box) Right up front I'll admit, I'm not the best resource box writer in the world. However, I do have some tips you can use to play around and see what you come up with. The tips I would share regarding articles posted to … [Read more...]
How To Be Relevant In Different Markets
It's really easy to box ourselves into a corner. We start thinking "Oh, my blog is about this topic _____ [fill in the blank] so I have to find sites that are about that topic to post to". Not exactly. Today we're going to look at how we can be relevant in different markets, and yet tie it up in nice big bow to bring people back to our site. Of course your site won't be relevant to EVERY other site, but you can spread it out more than you probably think. Let's look at some possible … [Read more...]
How to Set Up Autoresponder Campaign
You've hopefully written your free report and have uploaded the report to your hosting account (server). Now you're ready to set up your autoresponder campaign to get this whole thing going. Before you begin you'll have to have an autoresponder. There are some free autoresponders out there ~ I highly recommend you invest the money to get a quality paid autoresponder. The free services may be free now but it will cost you in the long run. At some point you're going to come to a place … [Read more...]
Upload Report So You Can Share It!
Image by Funchye via Flickr Hopefully you've made some progress with your free report. Heck, maybe you've even finished it! Now it's time to figure out how to share it with your readers. How to Upload Your Free Report If you are using your free report to build your list you'll be sharing it via your autoresponder. However, before you can do that you'll need to have it hosted somewhere. This means you'll need to upload it to your hosting account. When you upload it to your server … [Read more...]
Free Report Writing Tips
Writing a free report is something that can benefit you and your blog in many ways. You can use free reports to build your list, build your traffic, as a lead in for an upsell. There's tons and tons of things you can do with a free report. Here's the rub. A lot of people start to FREAK OUT when they think about writing a "free report". A lot of stuff comes up. "I don't know enough." "Who would listen to me?" "I can't write a report." "I don't have that much to say." "Well, yeah, that … [Read more...]
Weekly Blog Challenge #5
This week there will again be 2 pieces to the challenge. 1. Publish 3 posts to your blog this week. (Good quality content/pillar articles) 2. Create and upload free report to build your list. We'll be going over the steps to create your free report this week so don't panic if you don't know what you're doing ~ we'll work through it together. :) As always when you finish the pieces of the challenge stop back by and leave a message so we can stop by and check out your site! … [Read more...]
Streamlining the Process ~ Action Required
But it won't hurt I promise. I feel like I'm confusing the hell out of people. They sign up to get a free report about how to Squidoo then they end up getting a lot of information about blogging ~ which isn't what they were looking for. I get it. It doesn't make sense. Here's what I've done to solve the problem. Today I put together a free report called Create a Successful Blog in 2 Hours a Day. It's a step by step action plan for creating a profitable blog in... well you guessed it, … [Read more...]
How to Format Your Blog Posts
A couple days ago I was reading a great post over at Smart Passive Income. Pat was talking about how to not look like a newbie blogger when you're a newbie blogger. He had some great ideas. One of which was to make sure you format your blog posts, and I realized I haven't talked about it at all, but it's really important. Why format blog posts? Most internet readers SCAN. It is a fact. So you want to create your blog posts so they are easy for the scanners to take in your content, but … [Read more...]
Choosing Blogs To Follow
This week the goal is to find 10 blogs in your niche or related to your niche to follow. This can be really easy right? Just go out there and pick some blogs. Yes, it can be that easy, but today I'm going to give you some tips about how you can choose blogs to follow so you can best leverage your time and effort. 1. Regularly and Consistently Updated You want to choose blogs that are active. This means the person (like you) is updating their content 3 to 5 times a week. You want/need … [Read more...]
Your Purpose as a Blogger
You may at first think your purpose as a blogger is to make money. It's not. That's just a byproduct of your purpose. Your real purpose as an authority blogger is to create relationships with your readers and other bloggers. This is sometimes where people realize they are not cut out to be bloggers. And that's ok. If you find this to be the case you may want to think about creating niche sites or product based squidoo sites. Blogging is at is very base a social endeavor. You need to … [Read more...]
Let’s Get to Know Each Other!
Social media gives me the opportunity to get to know you better, as well as giving me the opportunity to share more of me than just the "internet marketing" side. I share multiple facets of me, and my life on social media, so if you choose to connect with me don't expect it to be 100% internet marketing... because it's not. :)