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It’s been a while coming, but finally I’ve decided this year I will attend Blog World Expo in Las Vegas in October.
Darren Rowse managed to get me a spot on his problogger training day at the expo that he and co-author Chris Garrett are running on Thursday October 14th. I’ll be speaking at 4pm, very likely on the … Read the rest of this entry »
Back during the early days of this blog I used to write income reports on a semi-regular basis. John Chow made the idea of reporting your blogging income popular, and before him guys like Darren Rowse and Shoemoney would show pictures of checks they had received from advertising programs like Google AdSense … 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 … Read the rest of this entry »
In a previous articles I discussed the importance of having a thorough understanding of your customer psychology. Knowing why your customers are motivated to do what they do on an emotional level means you can intimately communicate with them, demonstrating you know their problems better than they do.
In another article I explained the distinction between your grand … Read the rest of this entry »
Back in 2006 I decided it was time to build my first email list.
I had been blogging for just over a year at that point, and had over five years experience running websites already under my belt, yet I had never created an email newsletter or list of any kind.
Finally, after repeat recommendations from countless internet marketing … Read the rest of this entry »
Inside the Blog Profits Blueprint I talk about a key distinction, the difference between strategies and tactics when it comes to online marketing and building a blog-based business.
Here’s a relevant quote from the Blueprint:
Strategies are in place to educate your mind about why things happen. Strategy helps you understand outcomes and helps predict future outcomes as a
