Down-To-Earth Tips and Advice for Internet Entrepreneurs
Miami Mitch once again chimes in with some blogging advice, today starting a series of blog posts on traffic.
How to attract traffic to your blog is by far the most popular question all budding bloggers have, and in this case Mitch definitely has the experience to share some advice. His sports blog receives in excess of 400,000 visitors a … Read the rest of this entry »
Mitch is in charge of a well over six figure blog empire in the sports niche, which he started by focusing on college football in the USA.
He was one of the very first people to join Blog Mastermind. He also happens to have the distinction of attending almost every single coaching call I have done since I started … Read the rest of this entry »
As an entrepreneur, I have somewhat of a “problem”. I tend to see opportunities wherever I look. A few weeks ago, I started learning to bake a New York Cheesecake. It turned out very well and all of my friends were very impressed. When I saw how successful my cheesecake making venture was, I immediately started thinking – I can … Read the rest of this entry »
People often come to me as an expert at monetizing blogs. Although my experience making money online is not limited only to blogs, I’ve been able to extract a lot of income from not necessarily a lot of traffic.
For example, my proofreading business was able to generate a salary level income – sometimes as much as $15,000 in one … Read the rest of this entry »
What’s the most common and simplest marketing advice for attracting traffic to your blog?
Leave comments on other blogs.
Yep, it’s easy, it’s quick, and because of that, nearly everyone does it wrong. However because so many use blog comments to pretty much just leave spam, if you use blog comment marketing the right way, you really stand out … Read the rest of this entry »
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Jonathan Beebe recently contacted me asking to submit a guest article. Normally I say no because it is tough to find good writers with good content, but Jonathan did a few things right that convinced me to give him a shot. His email was short, to the point and he came across as a nice guy. He explained how he … Read the rest of this entry »
I’ve been working with a private client recently to help with her blog (hello Pat from GolfGurls.com), and through our time together she reminded me of a common challenge many new bloggers face.
Perhaps this is not so much a mistake as an adjustment that needs to be made as you begin the process of establishing your blog identity.… Read the rest of this entry »
My blog designer Nate Whitehill, one of the mad geniuses behind UniqueBlogDesigns.com, has enjoyed the experience of working with me on a few tweaks to my blog design during the last few days.
I can be a bit pedantic with changes, so I have to thank Nate for his patience. Here’s a snapshot of my blog header, which … Read the rest of this entry »
One of the things I enjoy the most about blogs, especially blogs that are run by one individual, is analyzing why the blog is successful.
What is the magic ingredient that makes this blog succeed, when so many others fail?
Based on my observations, here are some of the elements you can apply to make your blog something special… Read the rest of this entry »
The “X-Factor” is a term Gideon and I applied to blogging, where you use multimedia and/or social media to enhance your blog’s growth.
The idea is that “standard” blogging practices may not be enough to make your blog stand out, and since it’s so easy today to make use of multimedia and social media, why not leverage these technologies to … Read the rest of this entry »
Gideon Shalwick and I are opening our very popular Become A Blogger Premium video training program this week.
We’ve had over 2,000 people take this course during the past year, so it is by far the most successful program I run in terms of raw number of people who have joined.
If you’ve not participated before, then as a special … Read the rest of this entry »
Joel from BlogTechGuy.com is fast becoming one of the best WordPress experts around. He has already reviewed two premium WordPress themes on my blog, so when Kevin Muldoon offered a review copy of his theme, Joel was happy to check it out and then write this review. Here’s what Joel thinks of the “Personal Theme” for WordPress…
This is a review of the Headway WordPress theme, written by Joel Williams from BlogTechGuy.com.
Joel is the person I refer to the most when people need technical changes done to their WordPress blogs. Given Joel’s strong knowledge of the WordPress platform he’s perfect to review this premium theme.
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Squeeze Theme is the latest blog theme from the guys at Unique Blog Designs, who are the designers of some of the top blogs in the world, including the one you are reading right now.
Squeeze Theme is a premium theme for the WordPress blogging platform. Its purpose is to add significant additional functionality and scope beyond what the … Read the rest of this entry »
I suspect after reading the headline of this article one of the first things that crossed your mind is how can I possibly distinguish the difference between an author, blogger and Internet marketer?
Nowadays most published authors have blogs, and bloggers use Internet marketing techniques and write books too. Internet marketers also publish books and use blogs, so … Read the rest of this entry »
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Pat Flynn has an inspiring story that you must listen to if you are like many people around the world who recently lost … Read the rest of this entry »
There’s an interesting challenge I’ve come up against many times, which I think most professional bloggers know well.
The challenge is how to sell something without using all that horrible “hype” that Internet marketers use.
But wait a second. Hype actually works, or at least good “sales copy” works if you call convincing people to buy what you sell your … Read the rest of this entry »
In the previous article on living the 2-hour workday I introduced the concept of travel buffers, cash created either through saving or selling assets that is designed to give you a buffer of capital you can comfortably spend if you need to while you travel.
Travel buffers are mostly for piece of mind so you can relax while you … Read the rest of this entry »
